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The celebration of the 37th World Food Day and the 27th National Love Food and Save Food Publicity Week kicked off at China Agriculture University on 16 October of 2017. The event was jointly organized by the State Administration of Grain, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Education, the...

The 2017 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum kicked off on 9 October 2017 in Beijing. Wang Yang, Vice Premier of the State Council of China, attended and addressed the forum. The theme of this forum is “Targeted Poverty Alleviation and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of...

Xuanhua, China - 150 kilometers away from Beijing, there is the Shanggujun once guarded by “flying general” Li Guang in Western Han dynasty.  Over the 2000 years of history, Shanggujun, now the Xuanhua district of Zhangjiakou city in Hebei province has been a hotly contested spot. Today, standing on the...

Beijing - The third meeting of the United Nations (UN) Agriculture and Food Security Theme Group was held in Beijing on 17 July 2017. The meeting focused on the importance of agro-product geographical indication. It also discussed the collaboration among Rome-Based Food Agencies (RBAs) in China. The meeting was chaired by FAO...

Kunming, China - Rice is a major food commodity and staple food for many, and adding fish to flooded rice paddies has been a farming tradition practiced in a number of Asian countries for many centuries—even for more than 1000 years in some Chinese areas. The rice paddies offer protection and...