date:Jul 28, 2014
vernment released a guideline in June to create 800 million mu of high-standard arable land throughout the country by 2020. The program will be top priority for China's major grain-producing provinces, including Henan, Anhui, Shandong and Heilongjiang, during the next few years.
The program, if completed successfully, will likely reverse the fact that grain output has remained low for two-thirds of China's arable land and only slightly more than half the land is well irrigated.
The program mea