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How can agriculture's weak links be shored up? The key lies in adjusting the supply structure
The Central Rural Work Conference held recently explicitly proposed that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, we must effectively stretch the "short leg" of agriculture in the synchronous development of the four modernizations, and shore up the "weak link" of rural areas in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. At present, agriculture faces many contradictions and difficulties, with different "symptoms," but the "root cause" lies in structure
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Why is food the most important yet the least valuable
Recently, Huang Yanxin, deputy director of the Department of Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said at a conference: food is less valuable than mineral water, which is unfair and unreasonable. He suggested that the state should raise the minimum purchase price of food year by year. Food is the most important yet the least valuable, and the reason is simple:
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Northeast japonica rice market remains stable, with the "strong paddy, weak rice" trend prominent
Recently, the Northeast japonica rice market has been operating steadily, with the "strong paddy, weak rice" feature prominent. Unlike the sharp rise in long-grain paddy, against the backdrop of strict moisture and impurity deductions at state reserve warehouses, round-grain paddy has performed relatively steadily, with only low-moisture paddy seeing an increase of about 2-3 fen compared with last month
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Exchanging village officials across locations has many benefits, and these advantages are worth knowing about
Recently, when the author returned to his rural hometown, he inadvertently learned that the village's former Party branch secretary had been sent to a neighboring village to serve as Party branch secretary, while a village committee director from the neighboring village had come to our village to serve as Party branch secretary. According to the villagers, this is a measure of the county's recent implementation of a cross-village official posting mechanism.
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Green prevention and control escorts autumn grain production with full effort
Recently, the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center held the 2014 National Crop Pest Green Prevention and Control On-site Meeting in Jining City, Shandong Province. At the meeting, heads of plant protection systems from various regions visited the green prevention and control demonstration site in Zoucheng City, exchanged views on crop pest green prevention and control
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Town-to-city conversion requires accelerated reform of supporting systems
Recently, 11 ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued a notice on comprehensive pilot projects for new-type urbanization, requiring each province to select eligible cities and towns at different levels as pilot projects to report to the NDRC, especially for towns with a population of over 100,000
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National crop drought-affected area reduced by 12.47 million mu, drought conditions somewhat alleviated
Recently, the eastern part of the northwest, most of north China and the Huang-Huai region experienced relatively strong rainfall; the drought in central and southern Shaanxi, northwestern Henan and southern Hebei has been alleviated, and the drought in Anhui Province has been lifted, but the drought-affected area in central and northern Hubei has continued to see little rain, and the drought has somewhat worsened. A reporter from the State Flood
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Why China cannot massively import meat in the future
Recently, some media published an article claiming that China's surging meat demand will change the global feed grain trade pattern and set off a global tsunami. The report pointed out that due to the rapid increase in China's meat consumption, by 2050 China's meat imports will soar 35-fold, which will trigger many problems such as resource depletion and environmental pollution, bring serious impacts on the international grain market, and even have a major impact on farmers, public health and the environment worldwide.
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Four major aspects of land system reform worth watching
Recently, Zhou Qiren, a professor at Peking University's National School of Development, said while attending the 38th quarterly report meeting of CMRC China Economic Observation hosted by the school that four aspects of the new round of land system reform are worth watching. Zhou Qiren summarized several findings from his research on the land system in recent years.
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Development Demands in International Agricultural Trade Should Be Taken Seriously
Recently, the author noticed that due to the tough stance taken by India and other countries on the issue of agricultural subsidies, the only trade liberalization agreement reached since the founding of the World Trade Organization (WTO) stalled at the end of July. Some commentators believe that this move may deal a blow to the outside world's
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