SOCIETY

Smart Earth: How AI Is Rewriting Rural China

In China’s changing countryside, young farmers and local officials are embracing AI to tackle conundrums from the aging population to pest control

ENVIRONMENT

As Lychee Harvests Dwindle, Guangdong’s Farmers and Artists Ponder How to Take on Climate Change

In the face of increasingly extreme weather conditions, unlikely bonds are being forged in the southern province between concerned citizens and the growers of their produce

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

SOCIETY

Data Farming: How Digitalization is Changing China’s Villages

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

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

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