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Where exactly does the crux of farmers' difficulty in getting loans lie?
The difficulty farmers face in obtaining loans has a long history; it is an old problem. To be fair, the fact that this problem remains unresolved today is not due to government inaction; on the contrary, the government has taken great pains. So is it that banks are prejudiced against farmers? Of course not. Setting aside policy banks, commercial
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Where does rural reform go under the new normal?
Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Several Opinions on Intensifying Reform and Innovation to Accelerate Agricultural Modernization," and the 2015 Central Document No. 1, themed "Intensifying Reform and Innovation to Accelerate Agricultural Modernization," once again locked onto the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers
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Analysis of Future Development Trends of Farmers' Professional Cooperatives
It has been more than eight years since the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Farmers' Professional Cooperatives" was promulgated. According to statistics from the Professional Cooperation Division of the Economic Management General Station of the Ministry of Agriculture, the number of farmers' cooperatives registered with industry and commerce departments nationwide has now reached more than 1 million. Today, farmers' cooperatives have become
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Where on earth is China's rural collective economy?
In the 1980s, after the household contract responsibility system with output quotas tied to households was widely implemented in rural China, some of our politicians and theorists still insisted that our country's countryside was adhering to the path of socialist collectivization, that the household contract responsibility system with output quotas tied to households was a form of organization of the collective economy, and that through this system
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A Hundred Million Mu of Rapeseed Flowers Bloom Across China: Where Does the Rapeseed Oil Go?
In early spring in March, the rapeseed flowers are blooming again, and the areas around cities and the ridges of the fields all turn golden yellow. Once the flowers finish blooming, freshly pressed rapeseed oil is about to hit the market. But this dark-colored oil, which carries the taste memories of the previous generation, is now nowhere to be found in today's shops and supermarkets.
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Where are interpersonal relationships and the reconstruction of order heading amid the great changes in rural areas?
New Rural Charity Encounters Old Logic As the Spring Festival approached, I received a call from the former principal of the town's central primary school, inviting me to attend the town's 2015 Spring Festival villagers' forum and education fund council meeting on the fourth day of the first lunar month. The foundation's council members are almost all wealthy people from the town, and their donations are counted in tens of thousands of yuan.
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Where Are Rural Mega-Changes Heading? An Analysis of Future Development Directions
For the past 10-plus years I have been conducting research in rural areas across the country, and I have felt the tremendous changes in China's countryside. From 2013 to 2015, the center's teachers and students spent three consecutive years using the Spring Festival homecoming opportunity to write homecoming notes. In 2013, more than 60 were written; in 2014 and 2015, more than 100 each. From the center's teachers and
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What exactly makes the senior professional farmer certification so advanced?
Shaanxi is a pilot province advancing new professional farmer training on a whole-province basis, and last year it confirmed 84 senior professional farmers. That looks like fewer than 100, a bit on the low side, but in reality the standard is very hard to meet. What counts as senior? There are two hard requirements: first, an agricultural college diploma
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Find good channels for selling vegetables online, and you won't have to worry about where to sell your produce
In Yangzhuang Village, Bianqiao Town, Pingyi County, Shandong, 3 trucks are parked next to a 3000-sq-m cold storage facility, and busy vegetable farmers are loading them up, presenting a bustling scene of brisk production and sales. Walking into the office, Tang Yiqiang, head of the Pingmengshan Modern Vegetable Cooperative, is sitting in front of a computer posting supply and demand information
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How can the transfer of rural land contracting rights be accelerated?
Currently, the transfer of rural land contractual management rights shows three characteristics. From the perspective of transfer subjects, it is mainly transfers between ordinary farmers in the same village, while agricultural cooperatives and large-scale agricultural operators have also become important transfer subjects; from the perspective of transfer forms, subcontracting and leasing
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