China’s infamous urban management agents, known as chengguan, have a new rural equivalent, the nongguan (“rural management”). Nongguan is the unofficial name for a new corps of agricultural law-enforcement officers, “Rural...
At the Los Angeles Times, Michael Meyer, author of “In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland...
At Foreign Policy, Alexa Olesen reports on a fresh scandal in the Jiangsu town from which seven...
Naomi Ng reports for CNN that farmers from Jianshe Village in Southwest China have...
China’s first public soil survey since 1996 shows that almost a quarter of the margin...
China’s campaign against official austerity has reached into the afterlife with a new notice...
The South China Morning Post’s Stephen Chen reports that taxmen in Heilongjiang Province...
A farmer in Zhejiang Province has successfully converted a rooftop into a rice field....
Austin Ramzy and Philip Pan introduce The New York Times’ new Sinosphere blog with a look...
South China Morning Post’s Mandy Zuo reports China’s biggest overseas agricultural...
At The Atlantic, Tom Philpott looks at how the environmental damage brought by economic growth is...
Global Times’ Liang Chen revisits the “seesaw battle” over grave demolitions in Henan, which began last year with a heavy-handed campaign of land reclamation. Locals suspected that this was to make way for...
A tenth of China’s farmland is seriously tainted by heavy metals, according to a senior government expert. From Reuters: Wan Bentai, the chief engineer for China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, said a survey...
Paul Mooney reports for the South China Morning Post on heavy metal contamination from industries such as e-waste recycling and textile manufacture. The pollution can devastate health and agricultural livelihoods, but those...
At China Real Time Report, Stanley Lubman examines the “critical disconnect” between China’s national and local governments, its historical roots, and its consequences in areas from food safety to intellectual...
The desire to stimulate China’s economy has forced the Chinese government to choose between preserving land or preserving economic growth. From the Asia Times: When a leading mainland economist suggested recently that...
From Caijing Online: According to an independent investigation, only 59 percent of Chinese villagers received contracts or certificates for land use-rights. This contrasts sharply with the 90 percent figure given by the Ministry...
From xinhua via People’s Daily Online: China urgently needs a new rural land ownership mechanism to guarantee farmers’ legal rights and security, according to a UN-China project inked in Beijing on Dec. 20. Jointly launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Chinese government, the four-year project aims to revitalize rural China by […]
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