Huang Sanwen (right), president of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, applauds as Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is awarded th...

As the world's population keeps growing, the pressure on land is rising fast. How can the world feed more people with limited farmland? China's approach: intensive land management, stronger agricultur...

Under the intense early summer sun of China's southernmost Hainan Province, researchers are accelerating the propagation of China's four staple grains -- rice, wheat, corn and soybean, as the ambitiou...

China's grain output is expected to inch up in 2026, while imports of several major agricultural products, particularly soybeans, are projected to decline for the first time in recent years, according...

Blueberry prices across China have dropped sharply in recent weeks as rapidly expanding domestic production floods the market, turning the once premium fruit into a more affordable everyday snack.

​China has released its first policy document of the year, outlining priorities for rural development in 2026, the opening year of the country's 15th Five-Year Plan. The No.1 Central Document once aga...

China's leading agricultural research body announced a significant institutional overhaul for the year 2026, emphasizing "organized scientific research" and aiming to enhance self-reliance on key tech...

This photo shows cotton grown in Daxi Village of Yuli County, Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 19, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Shuo) Chi...

A partir de una semilla puede germinar mucho más que un cultivo.

​From land, ocean, to the outer space, China's Hainan is emerging as a new hub of China's scientific and technological innovation. Follow Xinhua's Zhou Yang to see how the island province is advancing...

Henan is one of China's most populous provinces and the country's breadbasket. From experimental fields to cutting-edge labs, Chinese researchers are using seed innovation to safeguard the nation's fo...

China on Friday launched its first large artificial intelligence (AI) model dedicated to monitoring and protecting arable land, and it will serve as a new digital tool for the national strategy of sto...

As the winter harvest season arrives, Chinese cabbage from Yutian, Hebei province, is hitting markets across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and attracting buyers from further afield.

A Chinese research team has developed a deep-learning framework that could accelerate the intelligent design of crop varieties, giving plant breeders a new tool to predict gene expression with high ac...

China's comprehensive, integrated national strategy for agricultural and rural modernization must achieve substantial progress during the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), officials and experts ...

In the seven years since the Hainan FTP blueprint was unveiled, one of the most striking changes has taken shape in Sanya's Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City — a zone built around seed breeding a...

Chinese scientists have developed a digital twin greenhouse system to boost the efficiency of tomato harvesting, offering new insights into the intelligent transformation of large-scale precision agri...

An international alliance of science and technology innovation in plant protection was recently launched in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, aiming to foster global cooperation in safeguarding plant hea...

On a Sunday morning in late September, at a sprawling farm in Zhuozhou in Hebei province,

From today, our special five-part series, "Raymond's Xinjiang Stories", takes you inside one of China's most dynamic regions. The first topic is cotton. Xinjiang is China's cotton heartland, producing...