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Observations and Reflections on the "Hollowing Out" of Rural Collective Economies
Hard to Get Things Done Without Money, Services Can't Keep Up -- Observations on the "Hollowing Out" of Rural Collective Economies (Part One) Currently, the "hollowing out" of collective economies in some rural areas of western China has become the norm, affecting the development of village-level public welfare undertakings and the supply of public services. Yet China has not yet established a public finance system covering both urban and rural areas, and a large number of livelihood needs in rural areas still rely on the already weak village collective economies.
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Selling Grain Is Hard, Stacked on Top of Debt-Financed Farming: China's Grain Subsidies Are Less Than One-Tenth of Europe's and America's
Economic Observer reporter Jiang Yunzhang: Wheat is falling, corn is falling too. This year's grain prices are truly baffling! A bumper grain harvest is normally a happy occasion, but Liang Yukui (pseudonym), a large-scale grain farmer in the Yunan area of Henan Province, cannot bring himself to feel glad at all. In previous years, in response to
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How can poverty alleviation overcome difficulties under the 13th Five-Year Plan?
On the 29th, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee concluded successfully. The plenary session put forward new goals and requirements for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects: maintain medium-to-high-speed economic growth, and on the basis of improving the balance, inclusiveness, and sustainability of development, by 2020 double the 2010 gross domestic product and the per capita income of urban and rural residents,
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National grain stocks hit a record high, with sales, transport and storage facing difficulties
Grain stocks hit a record high; experts urge reflection on price signals. China's grain stocks are climbing toward a record peak. Taking corn as an example, according to estimates by the China Grain Network, China's temporary reserve corn surplus has now reached as high as 150 million tons, while this year China's new-season corn
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Can the reform of the procurement and storage policy solve the grain collection dilemma?
Corn in crisis, wheat in crisis, rice in crisis. Recently, when people in the grain business occasionally got together, a certain trader could not help but adapt a scene from a TV drama to mock his current business predicament. Data shows that in 2014 the national grain output reached 607 million tons, while
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The difficulty in rural public cultural development lies in the contradiction between supply and demand
Rural public cultural development is an important part of building the rural governance system, yet it lags far behind the city and even behind rural economic development itself, and is incompatible with the overall advancement of rural social governance; among these issues, the contradiction and mismatch between the supply of and demand for public culture is a major difficulty.
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How to solve the difficulty of drying grain? The cooperative has a clever solution
It is autumn harvest again, and the problem of drying grain is once again placed before farmers. In order to dry grain, the roads have been draped in golden armor, which not only affects traffic but also poses relatively large safety hazards. What to do? Accelerating the construction of specialized agricultural cooperatives can be a way out. Scene one:
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How to Solve the Difficulty of Selling Grain? China Takes Multiple Measures to Safeguard Food Security and Farmers' Interests
BEIJING, Nov. 11 (China News Service) -- Reporter Ding Dong. As China's autumn grain harvest this year has once again been bumper, a twelfth consecutive year of grain output increase is now certain. Faced with a sharp increase in inventories and falling prices, how to prevent "cheap grain hurting farmers" has become a problem. The State Council executive meeting held on the 11th made clear
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Strictly investigate the issuing of IOUs to prevent farmers from having difficulty selling grain
Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on November 11, at which measures were determined to stabilize grain production and increase income from grain cultivation, so as to safeguard food security and farmers' interests; to deploy consumption upgrading to promote industrial upgrading and cultivate new supply and new momentum to expand domestic demand
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Slow Sales of Corn Leave Farmers Anxious, Highlighting the Difficulty of Selling Grain
Why is such beautiful corn not being bought by anyone? A reporter went deep into rural areas of the northern Huang-Huai Plain for interviews and saw many farmers looking sorrowful and helpless in front of corn covering the ground and filling their homes. This year the price of corn is too low; now it can only sell for six or seven jiao per jin. In Fuli Ji Town, Suzhou, Anhui
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