Rural Development
The per-capita disposable income of rural residents reached 9,248 yuan ($1,426) in the first half of the year, up 14.1 percent year on year in real terms after allowing for inflation, Zeng Yande, a senior official with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, told a press conference on July 20.
The pace of growth of rural residents’ income is 3.4 percentage points faster than that of urban residents, he said.
China’s agricultural production and the rural economy thrived in the first half of the year. Summer grain output increased 2.97 million tons from last year to 145.8 million tons, reaching a record high.
The total planting area of summer grain increased 265,500 hectares, reversing a five-year declining trend, while per-unit yield also saw expansion for three consecutive years to hit a new high.
The rural economy logged steady growth during the period. The added value of the agricultural and sideline food processing industry rose 10.7 percent year on year, while rural tourism basically recovered to the level of the same period of 2019. Online retail sales of farm produce also maintained a double-digit growth. domestic and overseas markets to reinforce each other, with the domestic market as the mainstay, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao said at a meeting.
Efforts will be made to pool quality international market entities, goods and services as well as accelerate the cultivation of local brands, according to Wang.
MOFCOM will collaborate with other related departments to unveil a general plan on developing the international consumption center cities. The five designated cities will formulate their respective implementation plans, he said.
It was self-developed by China and marks the country’s latest scientific and technological achievement in the field of rail transit, according to the China Railway Rolling Stock Corp.
The new breakthrough demonstrates that China has mastered a complete set of highspeed maglev train engineering technologies, including system integration, vehicle production, traction power supply, rail trails, and transport control and communication, the company said.
Launched in October 2016, the high-speed maglev train project saw the development of a magnetic-levitation train prototype with a designed top speed of 600 km per hour in 2019, and a successful test run was conducted in June 2020.
The train provides the best solution for trips within the range of 1,500 km, Ding Sansan, chief engineer of the project, said, adding that it fills the speed gap between aviation and high-speed trains.