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Purchase prices for China's three major staple grains fall across the board, farmers' income could suffer losses in the hundreds of billions
A bumper grain harvest, a sharp drop in grain prices, and a plunge in farmers' income. Since the start of autumn this year, the value of corn and wheat in major grain-producing areas has fallen to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices is particularly pronounced, with farm-gate prices falling by an average of more than 20%, and the largest decline reaching 30% compared with last year
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Rural e-commerce development unlocks a rural consumer market worth hundreds of billions
Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on October 14, deciding to improve the compensation mechanism for universal broadband and telecommunications services in rural and remote areas to narrow the urban-rural digital divide; deploying accelerated development of rural e-commerce, and promoting consumption and benefiting people's livelihoods by strengthening new business forms;
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Solar energy industry enters a period of structural adjustment, tapping into a rural market worth hundreds of billions
The solar photovoltaic industry is regarded as an important component of new energy. During the financial crisis, China's photovoltaic industry, which had once grown rapidly but relied excessively on "processing with supplied materials" and "both ends abroad," ran into difficulties. In 2009, with the introduction of a series of national industrial support policies,
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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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