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How does farmland protection shore up the foundation of national food security
Farmland is a non-renewable resource and extremely precious. At the same time, land is also the foundation for all kinds of human activities. In particular, China is currently advancing urbanization rapidly, which inevitably requires converting agricultural land into construction land. Each year, newly added urban construction land amounts to millions of
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Why does ordering a chicken require waiting nearly a year?
Last year on "Double 11," as the news of "selling over ten million Qingyuan chickens in a single day" made headlines across major websites, the development of rural e-commerce in the eastern, western, and northern regions of Guangdong also became a hot topic. Taobao came, JD.com came... and the accompanying "astronomical" orders are gradually activating
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Capital flowing to the countryside generally does not grow grain: three major difficulties behind it
Regarding the phenomenon noted by China Youth Daily reporters during interviews in Xingtai, Handan and other places, that capital going to the countryside has the strength to compete for land but not the ability to farm it, He Xuefeng, director of the China Rural Governance Research Center at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and doctoral supervisor, said this situation is not uncommon nationwide.
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How does super hybrid rice safeguard national food security?
China currently has a population of more than 1.3 billion, and it will soon reach 1.4 billion. At the same time, China's cultivated land is decreasing year by year. Faced with this severe situation of a growing population and shrinking land, the only way to solve the problem of feeding the entire nation is to greatly increase the yield per unit area of food crops through scientific and technological progress.
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To safeguard food security, what does it take to fortify the world's granary?
As the world's granary, Sinograin, on the grand scale, bears on national food security; on the small scale, it bears on the people's daily food supply. Operating safely and effectively is its first priority. As the primary implementer of grain reserves, Sinograin has an enormous reserve scale, like a small horse pulling a big cart,
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Why does reducing fertilizer use and increasing efficiency in agriculture not affect food security?
Chemical fertilizers have made an indelible contribution to China's consecutive years of agricultural harvests, but as chemical fertilizer use in China has increased, its efficiency in boosting crop yields has been declining, and it has even brought impacts on the ecological environment. In fact, reducing fertilizer use, especially for cash crops such as vegetables and fruits,
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Food security does not rely on Sinograin, so what does it rely on for protection?
With grain in hand, the heart is at ease. This is the core idea of our country's grain policy. It sounds fine, but unfortunately the real world has costs. The first problem is that grain prices are pushed up, and our country has become a high-price zone in the international grain market. From wheat and corn to rice, although
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The Internet Plus does not play favorites with the rich or the poor, adding momentum to rural development
A situation I learned about in Gansu Province these past few days while accompanying a State Council inspection team made me quite surprised. When the province reported to the inspection team on vigorously developing new industries and new business forms, it mentioned one thing: in 2014, the Gansu Provincial Government and Alibaba Group signed a strategic cooperation framework
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What does governance-driven drought teach us
In recent years, field surveys have often revealed the "last mile" problem: the state invests trillions of yuan in rural areas every year, building large water conservancy facilities, roads connecting villages, rural libraries and agricultural technology service stations, providing farmers with infrastructure and public services
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Why does the pressure for cultivated land requisition-compensation balance in China keep increasing?
The "Land Remediation Blue Book: China Land Remediation Development Research Report No.2," jointly released by the Land Remediation Center of the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Social Sciences Academic Press, points out that for a long time, China's economic development has relied excessively on investment-driven growth and high resource consumption, and construction has
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