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How to Innovate Rural Governance by Separating Politics from Economics
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 2 (Dispatch) - The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform," which is the top-level design for our country's current rural reform and a key deployment during a critical period for rural economic and social development. The plan
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Cultivating New Agricultural Operating Entities and New Opportunities for Rural Governance
[Guangming Daily Theoretical Practice Hot Topics] Author: Lan Yong. Since the 2013 No. 1 Central Document proposed encouraging and supporting the transfer of contracted land to specialized large households, family farms, and farmers' cooperatives, policies have been introduced across the country, promoting new agricultural
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Targeted poverty alleviation must root out the causes of poverty in governance
As the second National "Poverty Relief Day" approaches, "inaccurate" poverty alleviation has become a hot topic of recent discussion. A notice from the National Audit Office shows that in Mashan County, Guangxi, 3,119 people did not meet the criteria for poverty registration, of whom 343 were financially supported by the government, and 2,454 had also purchased
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How can agricultural non-point source pollution be controlled? Interdisciplinary co-governance is key
As the level of industrial and urban point source pollution control gradually improves, agricultural non-point source pollution has increasingly become the main contributing source of water environment pollution. Academic research on the control of agricultural non-point source pollution is mostly concentrated in the natural science field, generally showing the characteristics of emphasizing monitoring, accounting, and engineering measures, while neglecting socioeconomic driving factors and weakening policy design. But these issues, which are less explored in the natural science field, are precisely the main direction of social science research. How to give play to the different advantages of natural science and social science research methods in the study of agricultural non-point source pollution control, and achieve full-process analysis from driving factors to emission accounting, transport accounting, environmental impact analysis, and all the way to the effectiveness of policy intervention, is a quite challenging academic proposition.
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The chaos of agricultural insurance premium rebates urgently needs to be addressed
In order to attract farmers to insure, some insurance companies have resorted to the tactic of premium rebates, promising insured farmers a rebate of 1 times or even 2 times the premium. If a disaster occurs, the "rebate" can be "honored" in the form of disaster loss compensation or even ex-gratia payment; if no disaster occurs, then
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Rural Waste Treatment: The Key Lies in Management and Governance
Whether China is beautiful depends on whether its countryside is beautiful. The countryside is a microcosm of the nation's environmental protection achievements, and the quality of rural waste management determines the depth and substance of building a Beautiful China. It cannot be denied that some difficulties still exist. Weak hygiene awareness, limited disposal methods
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Challenges Facing the New Model of Rural Governance and Ways to Overcome Them
With the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization and the continuous deepening of rural reform, new types of rural communities have emerged in China's rural areas under "village consolidation and resettlement" and "centralized residence" of farmers, along with "hollow villages" caused by the migration of rural labor to cities and towns, and "super villages" that are villages in name but towns in reality,
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Rural environmental governance should adhere to the principle of protection first
In recent years, the problems of environmental pollution and destruction have become increasingly serious, and the contradiction between environmental protection and economic development has become increasingly acute. Environmental problems are no longer a problem of a single region, but have become a problem restricting the economic development of the whole country. Faced with various environmental problems
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Hollow Village Governance Calls for a More Flexible Homestead Mechanism
Recently, some media reported that about 20,000 natural villages in Shandong are hollowing out, and the waste of rural construction land is very prominent. At present, the situation of "one household with multiple homesteads" exists in large numbers in China's rural areas. With the massive transfer of rural population, the "hollow village" phenomenon is becoming increasingly serious. On the other
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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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