New rural medical care system to insure farmer's health

    BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- China will evaluate pilot projects of a new rural medical care system to insure farmers' health, the Ministry of Health said Wednesday. The evaluation will cover counties in 29 provincial areas that first carried out the new rural medical care system in 2003. An expert team will carry out face-to-face surveys with farmers. 
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Farmers should get decent pay on time: govt

    BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- China's State Council has called for increased efforts to ensure rural laborers in cities earn decent pay and that it is paid on time.  <<Full Story

Vice premier stresses increase of farmer's income

    BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu urges governments at all levels across the country to ensure smooth operation of spring plowing in an effort to achieve continuous growth in farmer's income and grain production. <<Full Story

China to train 100 mln farmers in next 5 years

    BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) -- China will provide skills training for up to 100 million farmers over the next five years, the People's Daily overseas edition said on Tuesday. <<Full Story

TV informs, entertains farmers

    BEIJING, March 27 -- Twenty years ago, a black-and-white television receiving grainy images was enough to make any rural Chinese home the centre of an evening's entertainment in a land where TV was rare and channels even rarer. <<Full Story

Wen hears farmers' concerns on 11th Five-Year Plan

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (2nd R) talks with villagers in Nanshi village, Xia county of north China's Shanxi Province March 17, 2006. Wen made an inspection tour in rural areas in Shanxi Province on March 17-18. (Xinhua Photo)

    TAIYUAN, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Elderly farmer Shi Fanding got what is likely the surprise of his life when he looked up from his weeding to see the premier of the world's most populous country reaching out to shake his hand. <<Full Story

Cities to absorb 300m farmers in 20 years

    BEIJING, March 21 -- Chinese cities and towns are expected to absorb about 300 million people from rural areas in 20 years if the urbanization drive maintains a growth of 1 per cent annually. <<Full Story

Farmers suffer as fakes flood rural market

    BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Two-year-old Niu Niu's favourite snack is the lollipop sold for 0.1 yuan (1.25 U.S. cents) at the village store. It turns his tongue a different colour, but his mother says at least it's cheap. <<Full Story

Urbanization reduces China's rural population

    BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Urbanization has been reducing the number of Chinese farmers and the trend is set to continue as China moves to build a "new socialist countryside," a senior economic official said on Wednesday. <<Full Story