LIFE

Can Young Chinese Sustain Their Newfound Rural Life by Simply Farming the Land?

As competition in cities increases, a small but growing contingent of Chinese youth are returning to the countryside to till the land and look for inner peace

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SOCIETY

Data Farming: How Digitalization is Changing China’s Villages

Can “digital villages” fulfill their promise to modernize the countryside through technology?

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SOCIETY

Protecting the Rice Bowl: China’s Relentless Quest for Food Security

With Covid-19 affecting domestic farming and global food supplies, can China ever reach its goal of food security?

NEWS

Goodbye, Grandpa Yuan

Five things you didn't know about the "Father of Hybrid Rice"

NEWS

Viral Week: The "Father of Hybrid Rice" dies and other trending news

Yuan Longping passes away, ultramarathon hit by tragedy, skyscraper starts shaking, child gymnast rolls into the record books—it's Viral Week

ANCIENT HISTORY

The Ox in Myth and History

From helping humanity grow food to becoming good luck charms for flood control, stories about cattle are as old as Chinese civilization itself

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HEALTH, TECHNOLOGY

Unnatural Selection

Uneven regulations and a skeptical public stall the commercialization of GM foods in China

TECHNOLOGY

Streaming Welfare

Farmers and village officials turn to livestreaming to sell agricultural products during Covid-19

SOCIETY

Chicken Farming Flies the Roost

Organic produce becomes new source of revenue to poultry farmers after avian flu

TECHNOLOGY

Tech Thursday: Episode 1

Tree city, moon potatoes, floating solar plant, and AI job losses