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The Grape Wall

July 17, 2020 By Mable-Ann Chang

The demand for wine among Chinese consumers is growing, creating an opportunity for wineries in the country as people look beyond imports.

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, China, Consumers Tagged With: China Wine, Food and Beverage

Meat Market

June 17, 2020 By Colin Peebles Christensen

China is the world’s top consumer of pork. What has the impact of African swine flu been on the meat industry and food security in the country?

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, China, Resources, Supply Chain Tagged With: China's Meat Market, Meat Supply, Pork Supply

Seeds of Doubt: Is China Finally Ready to Give the Green Light to GMO?

July 8, 2019 By Dominic Morgan

China has approved five new varieties of genetically modified crops for import, highlighting the huge impact Chinese GMO restrictions have on the global agricultural sector. Is Beijing planning to relax its near-total ban on GMO?

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, China, Chinese Economy, Consumers Tagged With: Agriculture, GM Food

Where Are Migrant Workers in China Moving to?

March 27, 2018 By Dominic Morgan

Economic changes and government policies are driving millions of China’s migrant workers away from the wealthy coastal regions back to the less developed western regions. The trend is a clear sign that a fundamental change to China’s economy is in progress, as a growth model that lifted more than half a billion people out of poverty starts to slow. From the early 1990s onwards, China’s double-digit GDP growth was fueled largely by the cheap labor provided by people leaving their farms in China’s poorer inland provinces to find work in the factories springing up along the coast. Now this has changed.

Filed Under: Agriculture, China, Chinese Economy, Demographics, Know China, Society Tagged With: Manufacturing, Migrant Workers, Urbanization

Down on the Farm: Agriculture in China Today

February 6, 2017 By Tom Nunlist

Over the past two decades, China’s urban population growth has been higher than in the rest Asia or the world as a whole. Young people are migrating to cities, leaving the elderly and children back home on the farm. So as manufacturing and urban life took off, catapulting China to world-power status, rural China and farming lagged behind. Roughly 86% of farms in China were only 1.6 acres, a tiny fraction of the size of the average 441-acre US industrialized farm and most of the work on these small farms is done by hand by an increasingly elderly population of farmers who now average over 50 years old. But that is starting to change.

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Chinese Economy, Know China Tagged With: Agriculture, Farmland, Food Security, Structural Reform

China’s Food Imports: Hunger Games?

October 19, 2015 By Douglas Bulloch

Until recently, China had largely fed itself. Yet now the tables have turned, transforming China into the largest food importer in the world. Changing food consumption patterns in China have seen increasing demand for foreign consumer food brands outpaced by even faster growth in demand for imported agricultural products and feed stocks. This has happened despite a continuing stated policy goal of food self-sufficiency. The result has been an evolution in land use within China, greater integration of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in global wholesale markets and a subtle shift of emphasis away from self-sufficiency within China, towards prioritizing the security of the Chinese supply chain.

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Know China Tagged With: Agriculture, Consumers, Food Safety, Food Security, Import, Slider

Agriculture in China: Down on the Farm

June 5, 2014 By Matthew Fulco

Agriculture in China is still primitive and needs to be modernized quickly. But whose responsibility is that? Wang Liang is a farmer in the northeast province of Hei­longjiang, China’s top corn producer. Despite fertile soil, Wang says the small size of his plot limits his crop yield and income. Both took a hit last year […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Best Practice, China, Consumers, Finance, Know China, Society Tagged With: Agriculture, Chinese Consumers, Consumption, Food Safety, Foreign Investment, GDP, Modernization, Slider

CKGSB Magazine March 2014: The Digital Takeover – Internet Finance versus Traditional Banks

April 1, 2014 By CKGSB Knowledge

You are invited to download the March 2014 issue of CKGSB Magazine. You’ll enjoy articles and interviews like: COVER STORY The Money Matrix: As Chinese consumers show an increasing preference for easy-to-use internet finance, what will happen to traditional banks? SNAPSHOT: China’s Crushing Debt: How serious is China’s local debt problem? A look at the ticking time bomb. […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Airline Industry, All Articles, Automobile Industry, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Environment, Finance, Infographics, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Internet Finance, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Agriculture, Air Quality, Automobiles, Bitcoins, Cosmetics, Debt, Ferrari, Jonah Berger, Local Debt, Media, Phoenix Media, Rolls Royce, Smog

Bioenergy in China: Can China Learn from Germany’s Experience?

March 10, 2014 By Christoph Burger and Jens Weinmann

Germany’s experiment with bioenergy villages shows that alternative energy sources can spur rural value creation. This has lessons for bioenergy in China. Despite signals of weaker growth of the Chinese economy, China’s appetite for energy is untamed. The International Energy Agency predicts that more than 1,300 GW of power generation will be added until 2035–equaling the capacity of […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Environment, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Environmental Sustainability, Germany, Renewable Energy, Shale Gas, Slider, Technology

Genetically Modified Food: A Clockwork Tomato

February 18, 2014 By Don Weinland

Will political and public opposition to genetically modified food stop China’s market from developing? It’s the Cold War again, only this time the caches are filling with grains, not missiles, and battles are mapped out on wet rice paddies instead of dry plains. At least that’s how People’s Liberation Army Major-General Peng Guangqian seems to […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Agriculture, Food Safety, GM Food, Monsanto, Slider

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