The Western and African media have long fueled the myth that Chinese investors are buying up vast tracts of land across...
Lake Dian in Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan province, suffered greatly when, in the 1950s, Chairman Mao Zedong called on the Chinese people to “conquer nature” and reclaim land by filling lakes with soil.
Nowadays,...
“A common perception is that China is supporting Chinese enterprises to acquire land abroad as part of a national food security strategy.”
China’s push for more intense farming has kept its city dwellers well-fed and helped lift millions of rural workers out of poverty. But it has come at a cost. Ecosystems in what should be one of the country’s most fertile regions have already...
The water-energy-food nexus is creating a complicated challenge for China and the world. Energy development requires water. Moving and cleaning water requires energy. Food production at all stages—from irrigation to distribution—requires water...
A converted shoe factory in Shenzhen becomes the world's largest cloning centre through "handmade cloning."
(Op-ed) China's economic planners need to prune and prioritise their myriad policy objectives so the country can move with purpose towards the goal of structural rebalancing.
