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China's major projects for new countryside in 2006-2010
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-14 10:07
The following are the major projects China is set to undertake to boost
the building of a new countryside during the 2006-2010 period, listed in
the draft guidelines of the five-year development blueprint being
deliberated by Chinese lawmakers at their ongoing annual session:
-- Large grain, cotton and edible oil production bases and quality grain
industrial projects, which also involve breeding of improved strains,
plant disease and insect pest prevention and control, and popularization
of farm machinery.
-- Fertile soil projects, aimed at transforming medium- and low-yield
farmland into high-yield cropland.
-- Crop protection projects, aimed at improving grassroots centers for
harmful organism monitoring and control, building some demonstration
bases for locust control by ecological and biological means, farm
chemical safety testing centers and biotechnology testing centers, to
reduce to the minimum the dangers brought about by plant diseases, insect
pests, weeds, mice and other harmful living things.
-- Transformation of large irrigated areas and that of the large draining
pump stations in the four provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui.
-- Improved strain and fine breed projects, aimed at building of crop
germplasm resources banks, crop improvement centers, fine strain breeding
bases, farms of live stock, poultry and aquiculture pure breeds,
aquiculture genetics and breeding centers, crop germplasm resources farms
and testing centers.
-- Animal epidemic prevention system, comprised of six subsystems for
animal disease monitoring, prevention and control, quarantine and
supervision, veterinary medicine quality supervision and remnant control,
and technical support and material supply for animal epidemic prevention.
-- Agricultural product quality control and safety supervision system, at
national, regional, provincial and county levels.
-- Rural drinking water safety, aimed to provide safe drinking water to
100 million rural residents.
-- Rural roads, aimed at building and transforming 1.2 kilometers of
rural roads leading to all towns and villages with ready conditions.
-- Rural methane, mainly for daily use in rural households, in addition
to large and medium-sized projects in some large animal and poultry farms.
-- Electricity to village and green energy county projects, aimed at
establishing 50 green energy demonstration counties, and enable 3.5
million rural households without power supply to enjoy electricity.
-- Rural medical care system, mainly to cover rural areas in central and
west China.
-- Rural family planning service system, mainly to cover rural areas in
central and west China.
-- Transfer of rural labor force aimed at providing technical training
and employment service to rural laborers.
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