Shifting Priorities in Chinese Agriculture
At the Los Angeles Times, Michael Meyer, author of “In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland...
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LatestWhat’s Wrong With this Chinese Town?
At Foreign Policy, Alexa Olesen reports on a fresh scandal in the Jiangsu town from which seven...
Villagers Build Real $2.1M ‘Money Wall’
Naomi Ng reports for CNN that farmers from Jianshe Village in Southwest China have...
8.3 Million Acres of Chinese Farmland Lost to Pollution
China’s first public soil survey since 1996 shows that almost a quarter of the margin...
China Warns Officials Against Luxury Funerals
China’s campaign against official austerity has reached into the afterlife with a new notice...
Tax Officials Owned Publicly Funded Luxury Resort
The South China Morning Post’s Stephen Chen reports that taxmen in Heilongjiang Province...
Farmer Proves Potential of Rooftop Planting
A farmer in Zhejiang Province has successfully converted a rooftop into a rice field....
“Interesting From China”: NYT Launches Sinosphere Blog
Austin Ramzy and Philip Pan introduce The New York Times’ new Sinosphere blog with a look...
Ukraine [Update: Not] to Become China’s Largest Overseas Farmer
South China Morning Post’s Mandy Zuo reports China’s biggest overseas agricultural...
Why China’s Farms Are Failing
At The Atlantic, Tom Philpott looks at how the environmental damage brought by economic growth is...
Battle Continues Against Henan’s Tomb Razers
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...
Heavy Metals Pollute 10% of China's Farmland
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...
Dangerous Elements: Heavy Metal Pollution in China
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...
China’s Critical Disconnect
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...
China’s Tough Choice: Food or Concrete
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...
Protection of Farmland Use Rights Overestimated
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...
United Nation Says Rural Land Reform Urgently Needed in China – xinhua
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
