Graphics shows one in every four Chinese villages had e-commerce distribution sites by the end of 2016 Uomo Nike Air Max 270 Nere Scontate , according to results of the country's third national agriculture census. (XinhuaMeng Lijing)
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- One in every four Chinese villages had e-commerce distribution sites at the end of 2016, official data showed Thursday, reflecting an improved logistics network and new economic trends in rural areas.


By the end of 2016, 99.7 percent of villages had access to electricity, while 11.9 percent could use natural gas, according to results of the country's third national agricultural survey.


A total of 91.3 percent of rural towns had centralized water supply, and 90.8 percent had centralized garbage treatment Uomo Nike Air Max 97 Just Do It Nere Scontate , while 53.5 percent of villages had finished or partly finished toilet renovation projects.


In terms of public services, a majority of towns had libraries, kindergartens and healthcare institutions, but relatively few had theaters and sports stadiums.


China's agricultural survey has been conducted every 10 years since 1996 to collect information on rural production, infrastructure, public services and living conditions for future policy guidance.


The third census involved 5 million interviewees, more than 200 million rural households, and over 3 million businesses and other market entities.


While living standards in cities have drastically improved with China's stellar economic growth Uomo Nike Air Force 1 Low Leather QS Bianche Scontate , the living environment for the country's 600 million rural people still has huge room for change.


Thursday's results highlighted the weak links in China's rural development, including a low level of agricultural industrialization and a big urban-rural gap.


As of the end of 2016, there were 43.35 million rural Chinese living below the national poverty line.


To spur rural development, the Chinese government has looked to e-commerce, tourism and modern agriculture for opportunities.


The data showed that at the end of 2016, 4.9 percent of Chinese villages had started to tap their tourism potential, up 2.7 percentage points from 2006, and 51 Uomo Nike Shox Gravity Nere Scontate ,000 rural businesses sold their farm produce through e-commerce platforms.


The State Council Wednesday called for more efforts to foster new types of agricultural business in the country.


Projects will be launched to support diverse business entities that integrate different industries and link to the Internet Plus strategy, said a statement released after a State Council meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.


Training plans will be implemented to cultivate new types of professional farmers to spur entrepreneurship and innovation in rural areas and lift more people out of poverty, the statement said.



Zhang Yong, CEO of Alibaba, introduces its artificial intelligence (AI) ET Brain during the release ceremony for world leading Internet scientific and technological achievements in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 3, 2017. The Fourth World Internet Conference opened in Wuzhen on Sunday. (XinhuaLi Xin)

BEIJING Uomo Nike Air Zoom Pegasus Out Flyknit Nere Grigie , Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's transition from a country that follows the world's technological trends to one that sets them, is no longer a blueprint -- it's a reality.


After years focusing on innovation, China caught up fast. From artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, to mobile payments and bike-sharing, Chinese firms are pulling ahead of their rivals.


Jeremy Rifkin, an economic observer and author of the New York Times bestseller "The Third Industrial Revolution," said China was becoming a global leader in the new revolutionary tide.


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Silicon Valley has long been considered the most viable option for starting a business in the tech sector. Now, this is beginning to change. Known as "sea turtles Uomo Supreme X Nike Air More Uptempo Suptempo Nere Scontate ," a growing number of overseas-educated Chinese are returning to their home country, turning down opportunities in Silicon Valley to make a splash in China's emerging tech sector.


As the number of Chinese students at overseas universities surged to 544,500 in 2016, the number of sea turtles also surged, with 432,500 returning to China last year, nearly 60 percent more than 2012, according to the Ministry of Education.


The reverse brain drain has benefited China's tech companies Uomo Nike SF-AF1 Air Force 1 High Boots Nere Scontate , such as Royole, a company founded in 2012 by "sea turtle" Liu Zihong, a Stanford graduate.


After working at IBM in New York for three years, Liu moved to Shenzhen and decided to start his own business. The 34-year-old CEO said the early days were hard, but "thanks to the government's preferential policies, we could focus on research and development in the early stage and grow fast."


Two years after its founding, Royole rolled-out one of its core products -- the world's thinnest bendable screens that if used on an iPad, would allow it to be folded into the size of an iPhone.


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