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...
Sun Dawu has been sentenced to prison for 18 years and fined 3.11 million yuan for “gathering a crowd to storm state institutions, obstructing public service, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, disrupting production and...
This weekend, the Chinese public mourned the passing of Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist whose scientific breakthroughs in rice development helped to usher in the Green Revolution that ended famine in large parts of the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
At the Los Angeles Times, Michael Meyer, author of “In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland...
In 2013, when Shuanghui International bought Smithfield Farms, America’s largest pork...
At the Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman looks at the town of Nanzhuang, south of Beijing, where hundreds...
DPA International reports that approximately half of all Chinese food plants inspected in 2014 has...
The Center for Investigative Reporting has produced a two-part series looking into Shuanghui...
Professor Zhang Fusuo of China Agricultural University led a team of researchers to successfully...
China Real Time’s Chuin-Wei Yap reports the Chinese agriculture ministry’s rebuttal of...
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every...
Amid heated GMO politics and grain espionage debates, agricultural minister Han Changfu expressed...
After a manager at an Iowa research farm caught a group of men from China digging up the field for...
Since its early days, the PRC has aimed to be self-sufficient in its food supply. With continued...
China’s first public soil survey since 1996 shows that almost a quarter of the margin...
The Atlantic’s Rebecca J. Rosen describes surprising new archaeological findings on early...
The Economist reports that the debate over genetically modified crops has become especially heated...
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