Archive for July 16th, 2011

Chinese Mandarin – China to renovate 2.65 mln rural dilapidated houses – Chinese News

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

China plans to renovate 2.65 million dilapidated houses for poor rural households in the central and western regions this year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) said Monday.

The government will first renovate 200,000 houses of poor farmers living along the country’s borders, said the MOHURD.

Also, 90,000 dilapidated houses will be renovated into energy-efficient housing units in northeast, northwest and north China and Tibet Autonomous Region as well, it added.

The government will allocate up to 8,000 yuan (1,234 U.S. dollars) for each household to subsidize the project.

In March, the government earmarked 10 billion yuan in the first subsidizing phase, according to the MOHURD.

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Chinese News – China’s agricultural minister urges efforts to ensure agricultural, fishery production – Chinese Mandarin

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

China’s agricultural minister Han Changfu Sunday urged agricultural authorities at all levels to deal with the impact of the current drought on agricultural production and take effective measures to restore the fishery production.

Local agricultural authorities should take full advantage of the recent rainfall to speed up transplanting of mid-season rice while working to help local fishing industry to adjust breeding structure and ensure fish fry supply, Han said at a special meeting concerning the drought relief work.

Agricultural departments should also make full use of agricultural machinery to assist the irrigation, tillage and rice transplanting in the drought-hit areas, he said.

Entering spring, provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu along the Yangtze River have suffered severe drought, which affected both the rice and fishery production, according to the ministry.

To relieve drought and ensure production, the ministry previously dispatched drought relief teams to the five regions and farming and fishery technicians to provide technical guidance, the ministry said.

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