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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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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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Why the Road to the Development and Popularization of Agricultural Drones Is Not Smooth
China has always been a major agricultural country. As of last year, the agricultural population accounted for about 48% of the total population, and after drones went through the military market and commercial market, many drone companies have set their sights on the agricultural market as a new opportunity. Theoretically, agricultural drones
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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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Why can the issues of agriculture and food not be ignored?
The issues of agriculture and food cannot be ignored. Food is not only an agricultural product, but also a comprehensive product integrating the economy, society, culture and ecological civilization. Agriculture has functions such as ensuring food supply, protecting the ecology, providing leisure and sightseeing, and passing on culture. Food has
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When farming pays well, the professionalization of farmers follows naturally
The Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 13th Five-Year Plan mentioned a term: new-type professional farmer. Although it is not a newly coined term, it still reveals the future direction of farmers and agriculture. The school where the author works has no shortage of agriculture-related majors, such as Chinese herbal
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Why the Reform of the Rural Collective Property Rights System Is Not Simply Dividing Everything Up
The reform of the rural collective property rights system means advancing classified reform according to the different types of resource assets, operating assets and public-welfare assets. However, this reform is by no means simply dividing everything up, by no means privatization, and still less is it about letting farmers eat the
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Why has genetically modified rice obtained a safety certificate but still not been commercialized?
Recently, at a GMO training seminar, officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and well-known domestic GMO research experts responded to hot issues of public concern such as the safety of GMO foods and regulatory risks. At the meeting, experts called on the Ministry of Agriculture to revise the Regulations on the Safety Administration of Agricultural
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Why international grain prices have fallen back to levels last seen 6 years ago
Without notice, international grain prices have returned to the low point seen during the 2008 financial crisis. The prices of wheat, corn, rice and soybeans have all fallen by more than 50% from the highs they rebounded to after the crisis. Although the drop in rice prices was less than 50%, because the rebound high during the crisis was not high enough, the current absolute price level is in fact substantially lower than the lowest level during the crisis.
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Why is urban-rural integration not about capital freely going to the countryside?
At present there is a widespread view that urban-rural integration means letting farmers freely enter the cities and capital freely go to the countryside. Only by doing so, it is said, can the principles of a market economy truly be realized, can the market play a decisive role in resource allocation, and can resources be allocated most efficiently
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