The owner of technology company Google has reported progress in its plan to offer Internet service to rural areas around the world. Googles parent company, Alphabet, calls the plan Project Loon. Its goal is to increase access to the billions of peopl

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By Peta Thornycroft Harare 27 March 2008 For the first time, many people in Zimbabwe's rural areas have dropped their long-standing support of President Robert Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF, which has depended on the rural vote for victory. Peta Thor

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BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- China's General Administration of Press and Publication has urged further efforts to ensure the accessibility of dictionaries for the students in the country's rural and less-developed areas. The administration's appeal cam

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298 mln more rural Chinese to have safe drinking water by 2015 BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- About 298 million more rural residents in China are hopefully to have access to safe drinking water by 2015, according to a water resources official Monday. R

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第一次在纽约时报上看到这篇文章,记得是在一个晴朗冬日的午后。懒懒的阳光穿过图书馆陈旧的木窗,洒落在一排排报纸杂志上,我正犹豫着该拿份什么

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Home prices are skyrocketing in some places that might surprise you, including remote towns in rural America. And the problems facing those places may be especially hard to solve. As part of our series on the new housing crisis, NP

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A report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences indicates that more than 78 percent of rural old-age pension contributors believe the scheme has failed to keep up with demand. Deng Qiandui is a rural doctor from Yunnan Province and a delegate to t

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BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China will include more serious diseases in its existing rural medical insurance system in 2013, the Ministry of Health said in an annual work agenda published on Friday. According to the agenda, pilot programs will be la

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BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The ratio of income earned by urbanites to that of rural residents is about 5.2, said a blue paper released by a major government think tank on Tuesday. According to The Urban Blue Book: China City Development Report No.

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In his report, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said at least 10 million rural residents will be lifted out of poverty this year. And the country will lift 70 million people out of poverty by 2020, according to the draft outline of Chinas 13th Five-Year Pl

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China's e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced an investment of 10 billion yuan, or 1 and a half billion US dollars, over the next three years, to set up its service in the country's rural areas. This will likely help alleviate poverty. CCTV's Han Pe

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CHENGDU, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Rural tourism in China benefited 15 million farmers who earn at least 150 billion yuan (23.81 billion U.S. dollars) a year, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said Sunday. By the end of 2011, China has at least 1.5 millio

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BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government said on Saturday it will subsidize 4 million poor rural households through a pilot scheme to renovate their dilapidated houses in rural areas this year. Subsidies allocated by the central government

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BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Officials and delegations from China and African countries have gathered at a seminar being held in Beijing to discuss rural development and economic growth. The seven-day seminar kicked off on Sunday, attracting represen

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BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will raise its subsidies for rural residents' medical insurance in 2013, Minister of Health Chen Zhu announced on Monday. Under the new rural cooperative medical program, the annual government subsid

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BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- China plans to build enough school canteens to provide safe and nutritional meals for all primary and junior high school students in impoverished rural regions by 2015. According to a circular, jointly released Saturday by

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BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- China allocated 4.5 billion yuan (715.5 million U.S. dollars) to teachers in rural areas working for compulsory education in 2012, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said on Saturday. The money subsidizes teachers that serve in

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BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- China's central and local governments had invested 105 billion yuan (16.6 billion U.S. dollars) in its award and subsidy mechanism for village-level public projects by 2011, and around 985,000 public projects were built in

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New Delhi -- As growing wealth fuels spending in thousands of villages across India, rural communities are emerging as new commercial frontiers, raising hopes that the nation's vast countryside will become an engine of future economic growth. For Aru

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

China has issued its first policy document for 2013, pledging to accelerate agricultural modernization and rural development. The annual policy document, issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council has been d

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