Six Chinese ministries jointly issued a guideline for a trial implementation of encouraging farmers to contribute their right to operate their contracted land to joint agricultural cooperatives or firms, a move an expert said will promote the nation's agricultural industry while protecting farmers' interests and enthusiasm. Compared with...more

Introduction: Open science is the growing movement to make science open. Science was itself used as a primary example for the efficacy of the open source movement, citing practices such as open dissemination of information, methods, and peer review of the scientific literature. Open science arguably began in...more

China set the tone for economic growth in 2019 by carrying out counter-cyclical adjustments and deepening reforms, with a prudent monetary policy and proactive fiscal policy, according to the three-day Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) concluded on Friday. Chinese leaders charted the course for the economy in 2019,...more

Book club sessions organized by the Party School of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China (CPC) have been restored after a four-year-long halt with iconic CEOs, including Tencent's Pony Ma Huateng, the keynote speakers. This is the first time for private company entrepreneurs to be invited...more

HAVANA, (ACN). That's why I want to express to the Cuban people: that they can be very proud of their doctors and their medical schools. In Brazil you won millions of admirers, the gratitude of millions of people," said former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. From...more

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said two Canadian citizens being kept in custody by China are unlawfully detained and they should be returned. Pompeo made the accusation on Friday during a joint press conference after the US-Canada 2+2 ministerial meeting. Canadian foreign minister Chrystia Freeland also defended...more

China's anti-corruption campaign has won sweeping victories and efforts have to be made to develop new systems and groundbreaking innovations in regular and long-term supervision, a meeting of the top decision-making body of the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced on Thursday, highlighting the effectiveness of China's anti-graft...more

More than 1,400 commercial buildings in Shanghai have set up branches of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to better serve the companies and unite CPC members and the masses. Shanghai has been extending Party branches in every company in commercial buildings, and 90 percent of its 1,410...more

The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) condemns the attempted murder of Agnes Kharshiing and her two companions last Thursday, 8 November 2018 in East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya state, northeast of India. Kharshiing, president of the Civil Society Women’s Organization, is a prominent women’s and land rights...more

A global network of various grassroots groups of small food producers and food sovereignty advocates urged United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation on human rights in Cambodia Rhona Smith to look into the recent spate of alleged cases of state-perpetrated harassment of peasants and indigenous peoples...more

Lu Qun is regarded by many on China's social media as an "anti-corruption hero." In his verified Sina Weibo account, China's equivalent of Twitter, Lu, as an anti-graft official, dared to accuse the country's top-level officials of bribe-taking and he exposed corruption to the public. His outspoken manner...more

When He Wei was attentively digging debris with a shovel to save people buried by a devastating earthquake, a building next to him started to fall due to aftershocks. He had to temporarily leave the site. But several minutes later, observing the building didn't completely fall, he returned,...more

At least 20 million people have been killed in 150 (one hundred and fifty) armed conflicts since 1945. Casualties: ‘First world war 5% civilian was killed. In the second world war, 50% of civilians were killed and in the Lebanon war, 90% of the deaths were woman and children.’1...more

China will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening-up this month. Its neighbour Vietnam has a similar political system and is implementing its own version of economic reform (Doi moi, in Vietnamese). For Vietnamese Ambassador to China H. E. Mr Dang Minh Khoi, reform and opening-up...more

Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government, Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies Heads of International Organizations, Your Excellencies Heads of Delegations, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, In May 2017, I announced China’s decision to hold the China International Import Expo (CIIE) starting from 2018. Today, after more...more