Agri News

12 May 2021

Three days before the new law on the Promotion of Rural Revitalisation was adopted, on 26 April the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs published the "Opinion on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of the Rule of Law in Agriculture and Rural Areas".[...]

10 May 2021

On 29 April 2021, China’s top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), adopted a new law on preventing food waste by offering legal backing to the country's efforts to safeguard food security and promote traditional virtue of thrift. [...]

7 May 2021

On 29 April 2021, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Promotion of Rural Revitalization was adopted after the third review at the 28th session of the 13th National People's Congress Standing Committee, China's top legislature. It provides an overall and systematic legal guarantee in pursuit of the rural vitalization strategy. [...]

26 April 2021

Last week the China Agricultural Outlook Report (2021-2030) was officially released at the corresponding conference, hosted by the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of CAAS in Beijing. The report, published by the Market Early Warning Expert Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), provides a review of the current market situation for the main agricultural products as well as an annually update of projections for the next ten years. [...]

26 March 2021

The fourth session of 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) of China opened on 5 and closed on 12 March 2021 in Beijing. One important part of the agenda for this year was to review and approve the 14th National Five-Year Plan (FYP) to be implemented in the period from 2021 to 2025. [...]

23 February 2021

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council jointly released the Document No. 1 on 21 February 2021. [...]

9 February 2021

To regulate and promote the effective rural land circulation as a requirement of modern agricultural development in China, on 26 January 2021 the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) released the Administrative Measures for Rural Land Use Right Circulation. The official document will come into effect on 1 March 2021. [...]

19 November 2020

On 3 November 2020 Xinhua News Agency released the principle proposals of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on formulating the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan (FYP) and setting the long-term development goals for 2035. [...]

20 October 2020

The National People’s Congress Standing Committee of China voted to adopt the law on October 17th, 2020, according to Xinhua, and it will come into effect on April 15th, 2021.[...]

23 September 2020

Since China's accession to the WTO, the scale of agricultural trade between China and EU has expanded year by year. According to China Customs data, from 2002 to 2019, Chinese exports of agricultural products to the EU increased by 4.9 times. In 2019, they reached 9.44 billion U.S. dollars, meaning an average annual growth rate of 11%, which was 2.7 percentage points higher than that of the United States over the same period. [...]