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NDRC Moves to Tackle Financing Difficulties of New-Type Agricultural Business Entities
China Economic Net, Beijing, August 1 (Reporter Lin Huocan) A responsible official of the National Development and Reform Commission said today that China will step up guidance and support for new-type agricultural business entities, improve the policy-based agricultural insurance system, and strive to solve the financing difficulties of new-type agricultural business entities.
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Why farmers are reluctant to settle in cities: long-term concerns and immediate worries
■ Focus Observation. Gradually breaking down the household registration barriers is only the first step; exploring and establishing an exit mechanism for rural arable land and homestead land is the key to making migrant workers willing to settle in cities and towns. Recently, the State Council issued the "Opinions on Further Advancing the Reform of the Household Registration System."
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Breaking the Bottlenecks in the Rural Land System Is a Key Move to Strengthen Agriculture and Enrich Farmers
In 1978, 18 farmers in Xiaogang Village, Anhui, took a huge risk and pressed bright red fingerprints onto a contract implementing household contracting with output quotas fixed for each household. It can be said that this very act made Xiaogang Village the birthplace of the "all-round contract" and also made rural land system reform the starting point of China's reform.
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Minister of Agriculture: Farmland must never be converted to non-agricultural use; farmers may move into non-agricultural work
Qiushi, Issue 19 of 2014, published a signed article by Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu, stating that the national food security strategy under the new situation must be fully implemented. The article points out that we must resolutely hold the lifeline of farmland. This is where the lifeblood of national food security lies. Farmland
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Land transfer must not become a new round of enclosure movement
When General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the seventh meeting of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms on the 2nd, he stressed that the three bottom lines must be upheld: the nature of public ownership of land must not be changed, the red line for arable land must not be breached, and the interests of farmers must not be harmed. Holding fast to the policy bottom line means that farmers should be
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Building Villas Through Land Transfer: Who Will Protect the Farmers' Interests?
Xingning City in Guangdong is an underdeveloped mountainous county. In recent years, the county has frequently brought in large projects with bold, grand gestures, treating one-off land transfers as a disguised form of land expropriation, and farmers' rights have been repeatedly violated. The full name of land transfer is rural land contractual management right
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Why does superficial urbanization drive up the cost for farmers to move into cities?
Our governance is governance with Chinese characteristics: it deprives farmers of their land through administrative power, sells it off at low prices, generates high government fiscal returns, and in exchange obtains urban development. Within our governance space we have built one superficially luxurious city after another. This kind of
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Can rural migrant workers who have moved to the city still go back to the countryside?
Today I will talk about a very cutting-edge issue: whether rural migrant workers who have moved to the city today can still go back to the countryside. Whether rural migrant workers can go back to the countryside must be discussed on two levels. The first level is whether rural migrant workers can settle down in the city. This issue is very important, that is,
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Urbanization does not mean leaving one's hometown behind, and farmers who move to the city need not give up their land
Urbanization does not mean making farmers "leave their hometown behind"; rather, it means enabling farmers to enjoy the same public services and living conditions as urban residents. In recent years, Dezhou City has explored the "joint development of two zones" - new rural communities and rural industrial parks - achieving for rural community residents "leaving the land but not the village, finding employment without leaving home, entering factories without entering the city, and becoming urbanized in place," blazing a new path of "people-centered, nearby urbanization," effectively solving the land bottleneck problem encountered in the process of urban development, and to a certain extent achieving a win-win of improved farmers' living conditions and long-term rural economic development.
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Kingenta Leads China's Movement to Reduce Fertilizer Use on Farmland
In recent years, the state has actively promoted the establishment of a long-term mechanism for farmland quality protection and set the goal of achieving zero growth in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides by 2020. Kingenta Ecological Engineering Group Co., Ltd. has made the research and development of new-type fertilizers its foremost task, pursuing a path of sustainable development through extraordinary R&D investment and personally contributing its strength to the protection and improvement of farmland quality.
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