China

China’s Excessive Food Production and its Social Costs

Fengtian Zheng, Zhen Zhong
Introduction The Chinese proverb “food is what matters to the people” has greatly influenced China’s food production policies. However, the excess supply of agricultural production in recent years has left food with a much-reduced role in Chinese people’s heart. After...
Country: China Topic: Agriculture
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Three Schemes of Land Reform has been Shaping

Zhen Zhong
Introduction On September 29, 2014, the central leading group for comprehensive reform held the fifth meeting, and reviewed the schemes that called “About leading right to the contracted management of rural land transfer with the opinion of the moderate scale management of agriculture...
Country: China Topic: Agricultural land policies
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Guidance to Improve Rural Living Environment of the State Council

Zhen Zhong
Introduction In recent years, local governments have sincerely implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, to promote rural infrastructure construction and urban- rural equalization of basic public services. As a result the...
Country: China Topic: Rural development
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Pension Policies in Rural China: 1986-2014

Zhen Zhong
Introduction Since ancient times, family support for the elderly has been a traditional pension pattern. With the gradual disintegration of the peasant economy and the implementation of the family planning policy, only family support is not enough.  We also need the support of the social...
Country: China Topic: Farmers' welfare and retirement system
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The Three Stages of GM Policy Change in China

Kejia Hu, Zhen Zhong
Introduction China is the first country to plant commercial GM (genetically modified) crops in world: China began to plant GM tobacco of cucumber Mosaic virus resistance genes and tobacco mosaic virus genes in 1992, which is two years earlier than America’s first commercial crops--...
Country: China Topic: Overview
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