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How Can Rural Online Shoppers Defend Their Rights? It Is Time for Institutional Development
In the field of e-commerce development, rural areas have long been regarded as a huge market still waiting to be tapped. As the "Internet Plus" plan has been incorporated into the national strategy, rural e-commerce has received unprecedented attention. At the central level, the state has provided a favorable policy environment for the development of rural e-commerce in three areas: bringing broadband to villages, e-commerce and the express delivery industry; among e-commerce enterprises, giants such as Alibaba, JD.com and Suning have also been laying out their presence in the rural market. The rapid development of e-commerce in rural areas, on the one hand, lets farmers enjoy the convenience of "goods arriving at the click of a mouse", and on the other hand, is a move to fully tap the rural market and boost the total volume of social consumer demand.
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Modern agriculture development showcases China's confidence
From facing the yellow earth with back to the sky to farming easily with a click of the mouse; from wearing masks and carrying sprayer tanks to calling on a mobile phone and letting "dragonflies" do the spraying; from peddling through streets and alleys to building a sales empire on WeChat Moments; from crowdfunding to enlighten poor villages to PPP for soil improvement... On the vast fields, wonderful stories of modern agriculture keep emerging.
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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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Southern japonica rice prices under pressure, limited room for further gains
By the end of December, the japonica rice harvest in the south was basically complete, enterprises accelerated their intake into storage, and purchasing entered its late stage. Market prices trended upward steadily, but the gains were limited. As New Year's Day and the Spring Festival approach, grain purchasing and selling, processing enterprises and traders have successively entered the market to purchase, demand has expanded
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Why is cooperativization an intrinsic pursuit of farmers?
There is a saying that cooperativization cannot be achieved without mechanization, which is utter nonsense. The more fragile and imperfect family farming is, the more urgent the need for the cause of cooperativization becomes; this problem and this need have existed since ancient times. Chinese
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On December 23, 2015, the "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on December 23 the National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index was 202.41, down 0.39 points from yesterday, among which the "Vegetable Basket" Product Wholesale Price Index was 203.67, down 0.49 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural wholesale market pig
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Making migrant workers urban residents becomes the top priority of urbanisation
According to the spirit of the Central Urban Work Conference held from December 20 to 21, the next step in advancing urbanisation is to make it the top priority to grant urban residency in an orderly manner to permanent residents who are able to find stable employment and live in cities and towns. It is necessary to strengthen the
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Central Economic Work Conference convenes, agriculture, rural areas and farmers remain top priority
The annual Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing yesterday, and the much-anticipated deployment of economic work for 2016 will also emerge as a result. Although the conference is still ongoing and no communique has been released yet, the meeting held by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on the 14th has already set the tone for this conference, from which we can analyze some of the trends and development threads of China's economy in 2016.
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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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The Functional Positioning of Family Farms in Agricultural Commodification
The 2013 No. 1 Central Document proposed encouraging and supporting the transfer of contracted land to specialized large-scale farmers, family farms, and farmers' cooperatives, among which the new formulation of "family farm" attracted attention. Immediately afterward, at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the central government more explicitly proposed
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