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A Detailed Explanation of the Internal Logic Between New-Type Urbanization and Agricultural Modernization
New-type urbanization is a critical reworking of the traditional model of urban development; it is not simply an increase in the proportion of urban population and an expansion of urban area, but rather the realization of a transition from "rural" to "urban" in terms of industrial support, living environment, social security, and lifestyle. Under the development requirement of "synchronizing the four modernizations,"
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Department of Science, Technology and Education of the Ministry of Agriculture: Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Achievements Will Be Fully Stopped
Website news: The National Office for Science and Technology Awards of the Ministry of Science and Technology recently issued the "Implementation Opinions on Carrying Out the Second Phase of the Pilot Work on Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Achievements." As a second-phase pilot unit, the Department of Science, Technology and Education of the Ministry of Agriculture, in accordance with the specific requirements of the implementation plan, will fully stop the evaluation of scientific and technological achievements, except for those involving major national interests such as state secrets, national security, and public security.
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Strengthen farmland protection and ecological conservation to safeguard national food security
To safeguard national food security, we must do a good job in ecological conservation, farmland protection and protection of core agricultural areas. The state has set a red line of 1.8 billion mu of farmland to ensure that the farmland area does not decrease. Delineating the ecological conservation red line is an urgent need to curb the severe trend of ecological and environmental degradation
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Ecological agriculture transformation and food security assurance advance in parallel
In 1994, Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute in the United States, published an article titled "Who Will Feed China?" in the US journal World Watch, claiming that China would inevitably experience food shortages, thereby causing a global food crisis. At the time, this view immediately
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Grassland ecological restoration accelerates, with notable results in the first half of the year
Grassland accounts for 41.7% of China's land area and is the main battlefield of China's ecological civilization construction. Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with relevant departments, has fully implemented the grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy, accelerated the implementation of major grassland protection and construction projects, and launched the action to advance modern grassland animal husbandry in the south
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National Seed Industry Scientific and Technological Achievements Property Rights Trading: A Landmark Event in Deepening Seed Industry Reform
On August 13, the National Seed Industry Scientific and Technological Achievements Property Rights Trading Center and Trading Platform were officially launched at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong attended the launch ceremony and unveiled the trading center. According to Chen Mengshan, Party Secretary of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, as an
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How can we mobilize more social capital to support the ecological transformation of agriculture?
The 2010 Central Document No. 1 explicitly mentioned the need to establish an agricultural industry development fund, support the development of leading agricultural enterprises, and explore innovation in the rural financial system. Before the issuance of Central Document No. 1, the relevant central departments, including the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the People's Bank of China, and others, went through nearly 4 years of repeated deliberation and consideration, and solicited opinions from all sides, and only then was this matter explicitly confirmed in Central Document No. 1. So the gestation period was very long. After Document No. 1 was issued, the State Council instructed the Ministry of Finance to take the lead in establishing this fund. After nearly a year of preparation, the fund was officially registered and established at the end of 2012.
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How can scientific afforestation effectively protect the ecological environment?
According to media reports, at an international symposium on ecology and water conservation recently held in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, experts believed that ecological restoration is an extremely complex systematic project, and in particular needs to be combined with a water-conservation strategy. In practical work, consideration should be given from the perspective of the sustainable development
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Meteorological Services Protect the World's Granary: Precise Forecasts Save Farmers Money
Henan has preliminarily established a wide-coverage, direct-through rural meteorological information service system. Meteorological services protect the world's granary. 66.776 billion jin! This year, Henan Province's total summer grain output hit a historic high again, continuing to rank first in the country. In Henan, where drought occurs nine years out of ten, being able to create consecutive
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Livestock farming must not come at the expense of the ecological environment
A large-scale pig farm located in Pingshui Town, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, completed its closure inspection and acceptance several days ago. The farm had 259 pigs on hand and was built at the foot of a hill by a reservoir. The owner, Wei Jianjiang, had originally planned to raise pigs for the long term, so he built 4 pig houses covering 800 sq m. At the beginning of this year
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