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How much does China spend on poverty alleviation each year? How are the hundreds of billions in poverty alleviation funds used?
To escape poverty, money must be spent. To lift more than 70 million poor people across the country out of poverty, the funds needed over the next five years will amount to at least hundreds of billions of yuan. Recently, at the Central Conference on Poverty Alleviation and Development, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that the intensity of investment in poverty alleviation and development must match the requirements of winning the battle against poverty
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How to Pragmatically Advance the Integrated Development of the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industries in Rural Areas
Advancing the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas is a major deployment made at this year's Central Rural Work Conference, and also a major highlight of the Central No. 1 Document. Since this deployment has just been put forward, understanding across all sectors of society is still generally at an initial, scattered and immature stage.
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Wen Jiabao calls for implementing all policies that strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers and enrich rural areas
BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- According to a message from the Chinese government website, Premier Wen Jiabao chaired the sixth plenary meeting of the State Council on the morning of Jan. 31 to discuss the "Report on the Work of the Government (Draft for Comments)" that will be submitted to the Fifth Session of the Eleventh National People's Congress for deliberation. The meeting decided
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New Rural Pension Scheme Expected to Achieve Full Coverage from Pilot Points to All Areas
In less than half a year of piloting the New Rural Pension Scheme, nearly 3 million farmers have been helped to make the transition from family-based elderly care to social elderly care. However, to let more farmers enjoy the benefits brought by the New Rural Pension Scheme, many difficulties remain to be resolved. Mutual family support and raising children for old-age security have been the traditional elderly care model of Chinese farm
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Rural development faces challenges in three aspects; what exactly are these problems?
On November 2, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform," and public opinion generally holds that the publication of this document means the top-level design for rural reform has officially been released. In my view, the document is a major step by rural work toward
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Corn prices keep falling, but the truth is that Chinese farmers are still running a slight surplus
Introduction: Every year in August, it is the period when new domestic corn has not yet hit the market and the price of old corn rises slightly, but this year domestic corn prices have been sliding all the way down. On September 18, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Agricultural Development Bank and other departments jointly issued a notice that starting in November, the state temporary storage corn listing purchase price will be set at 1 yuan per jin, 0.13 yuan per jin lower than last year's temporary storage price.
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China's skills-based poverty alleviation helps rural areas produce new artisans
Xinhua Net Kunming, October 15 (Ji Zhepeng, Zhan Jingjing) - In western China, more and more new artisans created through skills training are escaping poverty, and their skills cover many areas including planting, breeding, construction and even logistics and e-commerce. How to prune,
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Winter wheat planting generally assured; some areas may see consecutive autumn-winter drought
Right now, winter wheat planting is about to get underway on a large scale across the country. In order to effectively improve winter wheat planting quality, cultivate strong seedlings before winter, and lay a solid foundation for next year's summer grain harvest, the Ministry of Agriculture recently issued the "2015-2016 Technical Guidance on Wheat Autumn and Winter Planting." From
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Agricultural Bank of China Allocates 380 Billion Yuan to the Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers Sector
Agricultural Bank of China recently released its 2015 interim report. The report shows that in the first half of this year, the bank made serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers its strategic priority, focusing on financial services in key areas such as new types of agricultural business entities, water conservancy and urbanisation, with county-level loans increasing by 161.8 billion yuan. Ag
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International Grain Prices Fall: How Can Grain Enterprises Share the Benefits?
A report recently released by the World Bank states that international market grain prices fell 14% between August 2014 and May 2015, dropping to a 5-year low. The report, titled "Food Price Watch," says that affected by low oil prices, global grain supply was ample in 2014, and bumper harvests of wheat, corn and rice were in sight in 2015; these factors caused international grain prices to fall sharply.
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