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The Deep-Seated Reasons Why Urbanization Should Not Continue to Be Accelerated
Original editor's note: After a gap of 37 years, the Central Urban Work Conference was convened again, marking a new stage in China's urban development, and "urbanization" has become a focus of public attention. At present, China's urbanization rate of permanent residents is already close to 55%, which means that China's urban development is in a stage of rapid growth.
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Targeted poverty alleviation cannot remain merely in plans; it must be put into practice.
Nowadays, enthusiasm for targeted poverty alleviation is running high across various places, with poor households being precisely identified and poverty alleviation plans formulated by category. However, does one policy per household equal "targeted"? It still depends on whether that "policy" is grounded in reality and can produce real results. Visiting a poverty-stricken county, the poverty alleviation plan had already
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What are the reasons for the low efficiency of fiscal support for agriculture?
[Too-long allocation channels, fragmented distribution mechanisms, mismatch between fiscal authority and administrative responsibility, imperfect official assessment and oversight mechanisms, and unscientific decision-making mechanisms are the main factors behind the low efficiency in the use of fiscal funds for supporting agriculture.] Since the beginning of the 21st century, the central government, on the basis of fully realizing the reduction and exemption of agricultural taxes and fees,
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Internet Plus Agriculture Is Not the Same as E-commerce Going to the Countryside
Over the past year, facing the blue ocean of the future, whether it is giants like Taobao and JD.com or newcomers like Ganje, from collectively painting walls to setting up service stations to opening e-commerce industrial parks, e-commerce companies have been rushing to the countryside to stake out their territory. Faced with this strong new trend, local governments everywhere also hope
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Grain harvest hits another record with 2.4% growth, Statistics Bureau: The central government attaches great importance to it
In 2015, grain across the country achieved another bumper harvest. Hou Rui, Senior Statistician of the Rural Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, interprets the grain production situation. Data on national grain production released by the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2015 the country's total grain output was 621.435 million tons (1,242.87 billion jin), an increase of 14.408 million
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Why do I still not want to buy grain insurance?
"People don't even have insurance, and you want to insure grain?" a village cadre in Henan Province told a reporter. In recent years, in order to get farming households to insure their own wheat and corn, he has had to go door to door every year to collect premiums, and this is the sentence he hears most. "The villagers have no
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Notice on Raising the Temporary Corn Purchase and Storage Price for 2013
NDRC Economic and Trade Document [2013] No. 1289 To the Development and Reform Commissions, Departments of Finance, Departments of Agriculture, Grain Bureaus, Price Bureaus, branches of the Agricultural Development Bank, and Sinograin branches of Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces (autonomous regions): To protect farmers' interests and their enthusiasm for growing grain, and to promote the development of grain production, with the approval of the State Council, it has been decided to continue implementing the temporary corn purchase and storage policy this year in Northeast China and other main production areas, and to appropriately raise the temporary purchase and storage price level.
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Is it not a violation for restaurants to refuse customers bringing their own drinks? Wuhan Catering Industry Association responds
Our newspaper report (reporter Wang Zhixin) The urgently revised "Wuhan Catering Industry Operating Standards (Trial)" has deleted the clause refusing customers bringing their own drinks. Yesterday, the secretariat of the Wuhan Catering Industry Association, when explaining to the media, insisted that operators can independently decide whether to allow customers to bring their own drinks
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Potato is an indispensable staple crop
[Conference in progress: NPC Standing Committee] NPC Standing Committee members hotly discuss the draft amendment to the Seed Law: Potato cannot be missing from staple crops. Guangming Daily, Beijing, November 1 (Reporters Yin Hong, Wang Yiyin). The 17th session of the 12th NPC Standing Committee
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Banning straw burning cannot succeed without supporting policies
Editor's note: Every harvest season, air pollution caused by burning straw always becomes a focus of attention. How can we comprehensively utilize this valuable biomass resource and avoid simply burning it all and creating a source of smog? Reporters from Economic Daily visited experts and scholars and went
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