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Where exactly does the crux of farmers' difficulty in getting loans lie?
The difficulty farmers face in obtaining loans has a long history; it is an old problem. To be fair, the fact that this problem remains unresolved today is not due to government inaction; on the contrary, the government has taken great pains. So is it that banks are prejudiced against farmers? Of course not. Setting aside policy banks, commercial
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Where does rural reform go under the new normal?
Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Several Opinions on Intensifying Reform and Innovation to Accelerate Agricultural Modernization," and the 2015 Central Document No. 1, themed "Intensifying Reform and Innovation to Accelerate Agricultural Modernization," once again locked onto the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers
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Analysis of Future Development Trends of Farmers' Professional Cooperatives
It has been more than eight years since the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Farmers' Professional Cooperatives" was promulgated. According to statistics from the Professional Cooperation Division of the Economic Management General Station of the Ministry of Agriculture, the number of farmers' cooperatives registered with industry and commerce departments nationwide has now reached more than 1 million. Today, farmers' cooperatives have become
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Where on earth is China's rural collective economy?
In the 1980s, after the household contract responsibility system with output quotas tied to households was widely implemented in rural China, some of our politicians and theorists still insisted that our country's countryside was adhering to the path of socialist collectivization, that the household contract responsibility system with output quotas tied to households was a form of organization of the collective economy, and that through this system
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The ban on converting farmland to non-agricultural use is here: what benefits can farmers enjoy?
Li Keqiang: Hold the red line of farmland, fully carry out the work of designating permanent basic farmland, and implement actions to protect and improve farmland quality. Do a good job in land rights confirmation, registration and certification, and prudently carry out pilot reforms such as rural land expropriation, market entry of collective operating construction land, the homestead system
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A Hundred Million Mu of Rapeseed Flowers Bloom Across China: Where Does the Rapeseed Oil Go?
In early spring in March, the rapeseed flowers are blooming again, and the areas around cities and the ridges of the fields all turn golden yellow. Once the flowers finish blooming, freshly pressed rapeseed oil is about to hit the market. But this dark-colored oil, which carries the taste memories of the previous generation, is now nowhere to be found in today's shops and supermarkets.
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Where are interpersonal relationships and the reconstruction of order heading amid the great changes in rural areas?
New Rural Charity Encounters Old Logic As the Spring Festival approached, I received a call from the former principal of the town's central primary school, inviting me to attend the town's 2015 Spring Festival villagers' forum and education fund council meeting on the fourth day of the first lunar month. The foundation's council members are almost all wealthy people from the town, and their donations are counted in tens of thousands of yuan.
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Where Are Rural Mega-Changes Heading? An Analysis of Future Development Directions
For the past 10-plus years I have been conducting research in rural areas across the country, and I have felt the tremendous changes in China's countryside. From 2013 to 2015, the center's teachers and students spent three consecutive years using the Spring Festival homecoming opportunity to write homecoming notes. In 2013, more than 60 were written; in 2014 and 2015, more than 100 each. From the center's teachers and
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Passing Off Old Grain as New Highlights the Predicament of Grain Reserve Supervision
Where there is delicious lamp oil, there are bold rats that dare to steal it; where there are loopholes in the system, there is room for rent-seeking. Fulfilling shared supervisory responsibilities and clarifying the subjects of power and responsibility is a major issue that grain storage cannot avoid. It is necessary to strengthen, institutionally, coordinated supervision over storage enterprises at all levels and of all types, so as to ensure grain security for the nation.
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What exactly makes the senior professional farmer certification so advanced?
Shaanxi is a pilot province advancing new professional farmer training on a whole-province basis, and last year it confirmed 84 senior professional farmers. That looks like fewer than 100, a bit on the low side, but in reality the standard is very hard to meet. What counts as senior? There are two hard requirements: first, an agricultural college diploma
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