24 May 2021
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Tributes are flowing for agronomist Yuan Longping following his death on Saturday.
Yuan – known as the “father of hybrid rice” – is a household name in China.
He developed the world’s first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s.A fifth of the rice grown globally is hybrid rice, meani...
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Xi Jinping knows the importance of good urban governance. On Monday, Xi kicked off a tour of Chongqing municipality in southwest China. He urged local officials to up their urban governance efforts: He inspected neighborhood renewal projects in an urban… Read More »
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Xi Jinping has been all about regional development of late. The latest: On Tuesday, the big man chaired a symposium on western regional development in Chongqing municipality in southwestern China. This is the sixth symposium Xi has chaired on regional… Read More »
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The ag ministry's (MARA) new rural construction project database is off to a solid start. We got a bunch of new details about the initiative at Friday's presser on the rural economy. A quick refresher: Beijing's pandemic-era stimulus efforts hit… Read More »