Shifting Priorities in Chinese Agriculture
At the Los Angeles Times, Michael Meyer, author of “In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland...
by Cindy | Mar 23, 2015
At the Los Angeles Times, Michael Meyer, author of “In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 30, 2014
At Foreign Policy, Alexa Olesen reports on a fresh scandal in the Jiangsu town from which seven...
by Natalie Ornell | Jan 19, 2014
Naomi Ng reports for CNN that farmers from Jianshe Village in Southwest China have...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 30, 2013
China’s first public soil survey since 1996 shows that almost a quarter of the margin...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 20, 2013
China’s campaign against official austerity has reached into the afterlife with a new notice...
by Natalie Ornell | Dec 15, 2013
The South China Morning Post’s Stephen Chen reports that taxmen in Heilongjiang Province...
by Cindy | Nov 21, 2013
A farmer in Zhejiang Province has successfully converted a rooftop into a rice field....
by Samuel Wade | Oct 14, 2013
Austin Ramzy and Philip Pan introduce The New York Times’ new Sinosphere blog with a look...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 23, 2013
South China Morning Post’s Mandy Zuo reports China’s biggest overseas agricultural...
by Cindy | Aug 23, 2013
At The Atlantic, Tom Philpott looks at how the environmental damage brought by economic growth is...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 13, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 7, 2011
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 20, 2011
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 21, 2011
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...
by cschultz | Jan 21, 2009
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...
by Liu Yong | Jan 13, 2009
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...
by Mo Ming | Dec 20, 2006
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 […]