HOME Agriculture Countryside Farmers Policies & Guidelines China issues "land for land" policy to guarantee arable land area Legislature deliberates reports on protection of workers' rights, development of rural areas China to increase subsidies for rural medical scheme Senior official urges grassroots CPC committees to improve work standards New five-year program for western development approved Measures to improve quality of Universal Rural Retailing Network Project Favorable tax policies to support central regions Govt invests to clean up rural water Agricultural IT technology transfer and application witness accomplishments Officials urged to prepare for agriculture survey more Backgrounder Facts and figures: China's drive to build new socialist countryside Widening gap between urban, rural areas Agricultural industrialization Township enterprises Agriculture development Contribution of science and technology to agriculture The Development-oriented Poverty Reduction Program for 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grass-roots Party leaders (04-29-2007) Per capita cash income of farmers up 15.2% in Q1 (04-26-2007) Better protection for migrant workers in Beijing (04-26-2007) Arable land shrinks to 121.8 mln hectares (04-13-2007) China increases spring ploughing subsidy (04-05-2007) Subsidy to cover more aged rural parents (02-11-2007) Money from central coffers to buy textbooks for rural students (02-08-2007) Trade unions to target migrant workers (02-02-2007) Gov't document stresses agriculture development (01-30-2007) Modern agriculture development stressed in gov't document (01-29-2007) County officials trained for new countryside (01-29-2007) Liquid biofuel to cut usage of refined oil (01-25-2007) Senior leader stresses rural cultural construction (01-18-2007) Beijing to send more university graduates to countryside (01-17-2007) Management fees scraped for rural vendors (01-04-2007) China plans to expand rural road network (01-03-2007) Social security coverage extended to landless farmers (12-29-2006) More farmers given bank loans (12-27-2006) Gov't spending in 2007 targets rural areas (12-20-2006) Power grid to cover whole Xinjiang in 2007 (12-11-2006) Cities along Yangtze vow to safeguard migrant workers' interests (11-27-2006) China plans to build 10,000 resources-efficient villages in five years (11-23-2006) China to have more large distributors of farming materials (11-15-2006) China to have more large distributors of farming materials (11-15-2006) Gov't issues document on clean governance in rural areas (11-13-2006) Saving more water from agriculture (11-12-2006) Supermarkets available in Tibet's rural area (11-09-2006) Farmers' income up 11.4% in 3Qs (10-19-2006) Sino-German research on rural development kicks off Tibetan boarding school in Gansu Fujian: tea planting enriches farmers Peasants see good harvest of early rice in Hainan Pupils in Shanxi mountainous regions Intelligent greenhouse attracts tourists Farmers pick non-polluted spring tea Expecting a 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