More important, China is raising farm supports, albeit from a low level.
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To do that it's been expanding into other countries on the renewables ticket, establishing wind farms in Germany, France and the U.S. So far this year, Iberdrola has acquired Community Energy in the United States, two wind farms in Britain, and it has signed a tentative agreement to build a 1, 000 megawatt wind farm in northern China.
GDP, but since half of China's 700m workers are engaged in farm-related work, the privatisation of farming is the biggest reason why three-quarters of China's workforce is today in private employment.
Obama denied permits for a privately held China firm to build a wind farm in green-as-can-be Oregon.
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Panicked by rising food prices in 2007, more than 30 governments, from Ukraine to China, introduced export restrictions for farm produce.
The FDA's just-announced import ban on some farm-raised seafood from China, based on its concerns about chemical residues, attracted bad press for Asia's export powerhouse and was more bad news for the worldwide fisheries industry.
Mr. Li and other Chinese scholars and labor experts say workers from earlier generations, who hailed mainly from poor farms in China's hinterland, were accustomed to hard farm work and more single-mindedly focused on making money.
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He marched the students off to do farm work in the villages, supervised by China's no-nonsense peasantry.
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The prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has pointed out that China represents a potentially huge export market for high-priced Japanese farm goods.
Southern China is a notorious crucible for disease, with many people living close to farm animals.
The popularity of social network games, like "Happy Farm" or "House Buying, " is growing rapidly in China, but virtual sales from these games still generate only modest revenues.
In addition to U.S. imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese-made solar panels and wind towers, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States recommended that President Obama block a Chinese purchase of a U.S. wind farm in Oregon, which he did, reaffirming his view of China as an economic rival.
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As for the western states' mineral and farm exports, they will surely grow over time as less developed Asian countries such as China, Vietnam and Indonesia increasingly industrialise and switch to more meat and grain in their diets.
During China's 30 years of economic growth, hundreds of millions of factory and urban jobs soaked up surplus rural farm labor.
When you buy a T-shirt that says "made in China, " there's a pretty good chance it's made of cotton that was grown on a farm somewhere in the United States.
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