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Farmers prepared to reap benefits from land reform

[2013-12-04 07:56]

When Shi Quan arrived in Fengyang, Anhui province in 2006, he immediately sensed a business opportunity.

Progress in two provinces

[2013-12-04 07:56]

Statistics from Henan's agriculture department show that by the end of November, the rights to some 188 hectares - 29 percent of the arable land in the province - had been transferred. The province has 65,000 farming cooperatives and more than 15,500 independent producers with large production volumes.

The Third plenum decision

[2013-12-04 07:56]

China will improve the mechanism for coordinating urban and rural development, to allow farmers to share the fruits of modernization.

Smooth start for Chang'e-3

[2013-12-03 08:13]

The launch of the Chang'e-3 lunar probe early on Monday morning attracted worldwide attention, with the European Space Agency and a number of academics in the United States predicting that the mission will bring new advances and closer cooperation.

Satellite of love

[2013-12-03 08:13]

To most Chinese, the moon will not drive you crazy. Rather, it is the realization, buttressed with high-resolution photos taken by satellites and rovers, that the moonscape looks just like a desert, that is an absolute wet blanket on the romanticism associated with the Earth's natural satellite.

A small step toward a big future

[2013-12-03 08:13]

Witnessing the Long March-3B rocket blast off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center and seeing the scientists and technicians hugging each other was a truly emotional moment.

From pet rabbit to lunar detective

[2013-12-03 08:13]

The Chang'e-3 lunar probe comprises a lander and a moon rover. The rover was named Yutu, "Jade Rabbit", via an online poll. In ancient folklore, Chang'e was a moon goddess who swallowed immortality pills and then flew from the earth to the moon. Yutu was a pet rabbit that kept the goddess company in her cold, lonely lunar palace.

Looking to clear the air

[2013-12-02 07:24]

If you mention air pollution in Baiyin, the locals are always happy to relate a famous local story. In the 1990s, a man spent his entire month's salary on a Phoenix bike, one of the most popular brands in China at the time. After riding his new pride and joy to work, the man locked his bike and left it outside the factory. A little later, a rainstorm hit the area. At the end of his shift, when the man went to fetch his new bike, he was unable to find it because the high acid content in the rain had dissolved the paint on the frame, leaving his new bike looking as pitted and worn as all the others in the rack.

Out of work, out of luck

[2013-12-02 07:24]

The process of upgrading Gansu's heavy industry started in the 1990s. The unproductive and heavily polluting metals industry was slimmed down, resulting in many job losses. Many workers aged 45 or older found themselves virtually unemployable.

A shattered city hails Chinese hospital ship's role in healing

[2013-11-29 07:01]

Flora Anade was one of the first to receive help from the Peace Ark when the Chinese hospital ship arrived in the typhoon-ravaged Philippine city of Tacloban on Sunday on its disaster-relief mission. When Super Typhoon Haiyan hit her house on Nov 8, Anade crouched down and buried her head in her hands as protection from the collapsing ceiling.