From Reuters: …Over the past year, small new farmhouses have sprouted, looking incongruous among the southern region’s fields of sugar cane and karst mountains — similar to those in Guilin, one of top tourist attractions in China. High prices for the commodity in past few years had encouraged farmers to plant cane to the utmost. […]
From Business Week: In central Hubei province, farmers look at the new hospital in the nearest town with skepticism. As far as Farmer Pei is concerned, it represents a potential expense he can ill afford. Sucking on a cigarette as he walked along a road from his fields, the middle-aged farmer said he was reluctant […]
From The Christian Science Monitor: “My ideal picture,” says the marketing director of Galanz, the largest microwave manufacturer in the world, “is of a Chinese peasant coming home after a day in the fields and cooking supper in a microwave.” Until recently, most people – including Chinese peasants – would have laughed at such a […]
From People’s Daily Online: China will establish subsistence allowances for rural poor all around the country, according to the central agricultural meeting closed Saturday. This is the first time for the Chinese government to raise the goal of establishing a national subsistence allowances system for rural poor since the decision of the Communist Party of […]
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