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The rural e-commerce market has enormous potential, but what challenges does rapid development face?
China's rural e-commerce is developing rapidly, and in 2015 the rural business of several e-commerce platforms grew at high speed. Through interviews at the grassroots level, reporters learned that the characteristic low prices of online shopping are attracting enthusiastic participation from farmers. As e-commerce enters rural areas, some agricultural products have not only increased
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What new challenges does the balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation face?
The balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation originated from the formal implementation of the new "Land Administration Law" in January 1999, which explicitly proposed: implement the system of compensation for occupied cultivated land. In February of the same year, the Ministry of Land and Resources issued a document requiring the implementation of the system of occupying one unit of construction land and compensating one unit. It clearly put forward the concept of balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation
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Severe Drought Hits Many Parts of China, Grain Production Faces Challenges
According to Xinhua News Agency, as an important national commercial grain base, several major grain-producing counties in Jilin Province are currently suffering severe drought, among which 10 major grain-producing counties including Changling, Nong'an and Gongzhuling have seen the least precipitation since 1951, with some plots even yielding no harvest at all. Chief of the Jilin Provincial Meteorological Observatory
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What opportunities and challenges does the upsizing of agricultural machinery bring?
I. The trend toward larger agricultural machinery is becoming increasingly obvious. According to statistics from the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association on 21 major tractor enterprises (accounting for more than 85% of the tractor industry's output and output value) and 18 major harvesting machinery enterprises (accounting for more than 80% of the harvester industry's output value and output),
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Land reform shelved, collective ownership faces challenges
Continuing to shelve reform of collective ownership and merely tinkering with the separation of the three rights makes it difficult to resolve the institutional predicament facing China's rural development. At a forum recently held by China Agricultural University, Liu Shouying, deputy director of the Rural Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council, put forward this argument
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What development challenges do large-scale growers face after transitioning to family farm owners?
Editor's Note: Recently, Premier Li Keqiang pointed out in a speech at the FAO that agricultural modernization should be advanced on the basis of family management. Promoting appropriately scaled operations and developing modern agriculture on the basis of family management will help better feed China and also contribute to world food
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What are the difficulties in rural social governance? Analysis of the main challenges
Rural social governance, as a component of overall national governance, is an important factor in the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. At present, the continuous advancement of urbanization has completely broken the previously relatively isolated state between China's urban and rural areas, and rural
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China's Food Security Faces Five Historic Challenges, How to Respond?
Food security is a very fundamental issue for China. Over the past decade, our country's grain output has increased continuously, and the self-sufficiency rate of cereals is close to 98%, achieving hard-won results. But at the same time, we must also recognize that our country's food security faces many complex and profound problems, many of which are new problems and new challenges arising along with economic development, requiring our careful study.
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Food security faces four major challenges, how should we respond?
First, the "inversion" of domestic and international grain prices, with domestic grain prices much higher than the international market, not only in important grains and legumes such as rice, wheat and soybeans, but also in cotton and dairy products. Without price competitiveness, it poses a relatively large threat to the security of the agricultural industry and to the growth of farmers' incomes.
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Lower listing threshold for agricultural enterprises, but challenges remain
In 2008, when the author was studying agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery companies, an expert on agricultural issues told the author: the performance of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery companies was poor, they mainly relied on side businesses for support, and a large part of their profits came from government subsidies. He believed that a considerable number of them had fraudulent listings, and after listing they would raise a sum of money and then decide what to do next, either diversify, or simply sell the shell and walk away.
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