GUANG’AN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--‘Late in the spring, the hard-working peasants still shout their oxen to work in the fields; the paddy fields that have been idle for a winter are cultivated and ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. In the quiet backwaters of Yunnan, Dong Meihua – though her followers know her by the public alias Dianxi Xiaoge – has done something ...

For a long time, big cities have held an irresistible allure for Chinese youth. They represent everything the countryside lacks: better educational resources, more job opportunities, and access to the ...

Mobile phones are an increasingly popular way to surf the Internet in rural China, but a “digital divide” is still growing between the country’s rural and urban areas, a survey found. Rural China had ...

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2023—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$345 million loan that supports China’s global public goods agenda by promoting the greening of agriculture ...

Community Development Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4 (October 2016), pp. 534-551 (18 pages) Abstract Tourism is recognized as a rural development mechanism in terms of its socio-economic contribution towards ...

SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer – In China, agriculture continues to employ an outsize share of the workforce. According to the World Bank, agriculture employed 25.4 percent of China's total ...