Black gold
Subscribe to keep reading.
Sign up to stay briefed on what the Chinese government is doing, thinking, and saying.
Already a subscriber? Log in.
On Friday, Vice Premier Hu Chunhua traveled to Suihua – a small city in Heilongjiang province – to attend a meeting about dirt.
Yup, you read that right.
Q: What kind of dirt could be important enough to inspire a trip by a vice premier, you ask?
A: Black, or chernozem soil – a rare and ...