Online retail sales across China's rural areas experienced tremendous growth last year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday.

February22,2019

Chinese central authorities on Tuesday made public a raft of guidelines to prioritize the development of agriculture and rural areas, and seek progress in work relating to agriculture, rural areas and rural people.

February20,2019

China saw fast expansion of rural financial institutions last year as the country channels more financial resources to serve the countryside.

February18,2019

Alibaba's Tuesday report shows that China's rural areas are growing faster than some first-tier cities in digital consumption.

January30,2019

China's rural policy bank has issued loans of 40.5 billion yuan (about 6 billion U.S. dollars) to help the country's forestry sector.

January28,2019

More efforts will be made to bridge the gap between urban and rural education resources, including financial support to improve rural education infrastructure and provide rural schools with more and better teachers, the Ministry of...

December29,2018

Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua said Thursday that local authorities should draw on the experience of east China's Zhejiang Province to improve rural life across the country.

December28,2018

The local government has sought way to mobilize the initiative of its villagers, by helping them open their own online shops. The project, launched jointly by the government and e-commerce platforms, aims to empower farmers with branding and marketing.

December18,2018

China will continue to enhance ecological environment in villages, bring the green coverage rate in rural areas to 30 percent and build 20,000 national forest villages by 2020, according to Liu Dongsheng.

December06,2018

China will continuously promote the infrastructure construction in rural areas with expected investment of more than 4 trillion yuan during the period from 2018 to 2020 so as to put in place the rural vitalization strategy.

October23,2018

A second draft amendment to China's law on rural land contracts was submitted on Monday for review to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the top legislature.

October23,2018

The Chinese authorities are formulating policies guiding the financial services for rural vitalization and will release them soon, according to the Xinhua-run Economic Information Daily on Thursday.

October11,2018

China has released a five-year plan on its rural vitalization strategy, the first of its kind, mapping out a number of major projects, programs and actions.

September27,2018

China will release a national rural vitalization strategic program (2018-2022) to implement policies under the "No. 1 central document" this year.

February05,2018

China on Sunday released a package of policies under the "No. 1 central document" of the year, charting the roadmap for rural vitalization. There is quite a lot to be accomplished in the rural area where opportunities for development have arisen

February05,2018

China's top legislature on Wednesday approved a decision to extend a pilot program allowing farmers in selected areas to mortgage their land use rights and housing property rights.

December28,2017

China has made remarkable progress in its farm sector and rural land ownership reform during the past five years.

December28,2017

China will expand its rural land ownership reform to more counties in the next year in its latest effort to bolster agriculture and the rural economy.

December04,2017

China plans to treat rural household waste in 90 percent of all villages by 2020, a ministry official said Wednesday.

June15,2017

Online shopping is thriving in rural China, with last year's transactions reaching 894.54 billion yuan (130 billion U.S. dollars), a Ministry of Commerce (MOC) official said on Thursday.

March03,2017