Chinese Agriculture

During the last few centuries, China‘s agriculture development process witnessed many inventions and innovations that were ahead of the rest of the world. However, China also experienced a long period of stagnation due to recurrent famines, wars and imperialism. After the founding of the People‘s Republic of China in 1949, the abolition of the semi-feudal and semi-colonial system and the establishment of the socialist system, China‘s rural economy has been rapidly restored and developed. Moreover, Chinese agriculture has ended its stagnant history and entered a new period of rapid development. Although there have been setbacks in the development process over the past 30 years, China has fed almost one-fifth of the world‘s population with only 7% of the world‘s arable land. Since the reform and opening up, China‘s agricultural education and scientific and technological undertakings have also flourished, which has greatly promoted the improvement of China‘s agricultural productivity. The book has 10 chapters in the following order: Chapter 1: Chinese Economy and Agriculture (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) Chapter 2: Farmland in China (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) Chapter 3: China‘s Main Food Crops (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) Chapter 4: China‘s Agricultural Regions (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) Chapter 5: Chinese Farmers (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) Chapter 6: Modern Food Contamination (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) Chapter 7: Genetically Modified Crops (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) Chapter 8: Organic Agriculture in China (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) Chapter 9: Food Security in China (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) Chapter 10: Agricultural Challenges (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) The current book volume, Chinese Agriculture (¿¿¿¿), is a Chinese reading practice book (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿). It would introduce you to the very important features of agriculture in China (such as the land reforms, major crops, organic farming, genetically modified crops, food safety, etc.). The 4th volume in the Introduction to Chinese Geography Series (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) includes both the Chinese text (simplified characters) and pinyin Romanization. With about over 1000 unique Chinese characters, the volume would be suitable for the beginners, lower intermediate and advanced level Chinese language learners (HSK 1-6). Overall, the reading series offers you a variety of elementary level books (Level 1/2/3/4/5/6) to understand China as well as practice Chinese reading fast.