China's Ten Measures to Promote Transformation of Traditional Agriculture
May 11, 2012| |
Mr. Zhang Laiwu, Vice Minister of Science and Technology of People Republic of China, announced at a news conference held by the State Council Information Office that China will take ten measures to promote the transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture.
The 10 measures are:
- Implement agricultural science and technology key special programs;
- Start the action for seed industry science and technology innovation;
- Extensively promote the sci-tech commissioners' rural technology entrepreneurial process;
- Actively promote the construction of the new rural S&T service system;
- Accelerate the construction of national agricultural S&T park;
- Speed up the rural information service;
- Deepen the reform of rural science and technology plan management;
- Continue to increase investment in agricultural S&T;
- Strengthen agricultural S&T innovation platform;
- Vigorously cultivate agricultural S&T personnel.
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