signed a secret agreement to divide communally owned farmland into individual pieces called household contracts, thus inadvertently lighting the torch for China's rural revolution. Today they are ...

BEIJING, March 30 (Xinhua) -- China announced on Sunday a plan to gradually transform permanent basic farmland into high-standard farmland. The plan, issued by the General Office of the Communist ...

in Jiangsu province in eastern China. The powers that be have decreed that the official hairy crab season starts two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, making it a fortuitous time for feasting.