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What impact will a slowdown in urbanization have on the economy?
From July 31 to August 1, the 2015 (Summer) Chongli China Urban Development Forum was held in Chongli, Zhangjiakou. Cai Fang, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech at the forum. The following is the transcript of the speech: China's urbanization is developing rapidly, and China's urban research is also developing very
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Alert! These four types of cooperatives have already degenerated
In recent years, farmers' cooperatives have developed rapidly. As of the end of February this year, the number of farmers' professional cooperatives registered with industry and commerce departments had reached 1,337,400, a year-on-year increase of 28.74%. Over the past five years, an average of 300,000 have been added each year, but among them there is no shortage of fake cooperatives, relabeled cooperatives
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In some areas, selling grain is difficult; multiple measures have been taken to ease the pressure of selling grain
Because of successive rainstorms during this year's wheat harvest, imperfect grains of wheat in parts of Anhui and other places exceeded the standard, making it difficult for the quality to meet the national purchase and storage standard. To ease the problem of farmers having difficulty selling grain, various localities and departments have successively introduced multiple measures to effectively safeguard the interests of grain-growing farmers.
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Fertilizer application rates for fruit trees and vegetables in China have exceeded safe levels
The State Council Information Office held a press conference this morning, at which Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin briefed on the work related to the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution. When answering a reporter's question about farmers frequently and widely using agricultural film, pesticides and chemical fertilizers in large amounts, causing serious pollution
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Have the Grain Subsidies Arrived? A Clear Guide to the Payment Details
Editor's Note: For stabilizing grain and raising incomes, agricultural subsidy policy has played an indispensable role. However, as agriculture and rural areas undergo profound change, the effects and efficiency of a subsidy policy implemented for more than 10 years are diminishing, making adjustments and improvements urgently necessary. In response to current practical problems, this year the state is advancing
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Have the poor fallen into a structural poverty trap?
In a broad sense, poverty alleviation mainly refers to two aspects: the reduction of absolute poverty and the narrowing of inequality. Over the past 30-plus years, China's alleviation of absolute poverty has been very obvious. Nowadays in many places, whether a household in a poor village owns a bicycle, motorcycle, TV set, etc. can no longer serve as a standard for judging whether it is poor.
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What negative effects do agricultural subsidy policies have?
Along with rapid economic development, China's agricultural policy has also begun to transform. After 2000, in order to ensure farmers' enthusiasm for grain production, the minimum protective price was continuously raised. By now, this has made China's domestic grain prices far higher than the international market, and inventories of corn and other grains
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Where Is Seed Industry Regulation Headed? An Analysis of Future Development Directions
Unifying the Two Certificates for Production and Operation Has Two Benefits. In this draft amendment to the Seed Law, the seed production license and the seed operation license are unified into one certificate, meaning an enterprise only needs to obtain one certificate -- a seed production and operation license at its place of registration -- to carry out seed production and operation in suitable locations.
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Beekeepers need enough profit margin to produce good honey
With one-ninth of the world's bee colonies, the world's highest honey production, and one-quarter of the world's total honey exports, China is truly a major beekeeping country. At the same time, China's beekeeping industry faces the awkward situation of being a
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Land Confirmation: Let Farmers Soon Have a "Reassurance Pill"
The confirmation of rights to contracted land concerns the vital interests of hundreds of millions of farmers. It is an important foundation for implementing the long-term stability of land contracting relations, an important prerequisite for carrying out the transfer of land contractual management rights, and an important basis for mediating contract disputes, conducting mortgage guarantees, and implementing land expropriation compensation.
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