China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) released its first announcement of biosafety certificates for GMO crops in 2022 as the country is moving closer towards GMO commercialization…
On 11 February 2022, the State Council released the Five-Year Plan on Promotion of Agricultural and Rural Modernization. The 47-page document lists a very extensive and detailed…
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council jointly released the Document No. 1 on 22 February 2022…
On 18 January 2022, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) released the “14th five-year plan for international cooperation in agriculture”…
On 24 December 2021, the National People’s Congress passed the decision to amend the Seed Law. The new seed law will take effect on 1 March 2022…
On 31 October 2021, China issued the Food Conservation Action Plan to ensure grain supplies and food security. The plan emphasizes saving food through the entire chain…
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) released “Measures for the Administration of Experimental Zones for Opening and Foreign Cooperation in Agriculture”…
The State Information Office released a White Paper outlining on 26 pages China’s achievements and current policy on biodiversity…
On 9 September, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the China International E-Commerce Center released the “2021 National County Digital Agriculture Rural E-commerce Development Report” onine…
On 12 September 2021, the Central Committee of the CCP and the State Council jointly released a “Guideline on Deepening Reform of Eco-compensation Mechanism for China”…
In 2020, China committed to achieving carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. Against this backdrop, on 1 July 2022, NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission)…
On 10 May 2022, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)—China’s top economic planner—released a 14th five-year plan aimed at developing the country’s bioeconomy…
On 20 April, the 2022 China Agricultural Outlook Conference released its annual outlook report for 2022-31. Issued since 2014 by the Early Warning Committee of China’s Ministry of Agriculture…
On 20 April 2022, the Chinese State Council in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) held a press conference to summarize the agricultural sector of China…
A new policy brief by the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) is taking a closer look at global ag markets…
