China’s experiences of agriculture green growth have generated vital lessons for farmers nationally and globally, reveals a new series of reports from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United […]
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Zhou Enlai’s Legacy in the Belt & Road Initiative
Originally posted 15 January 2022 Introduction Zhou Enlai is still remembered with boundless respect and affection by the Chinese people and progressive people around the world. He was China’s first Premier, […]
China launches national soil survey to protect arable land
Originally Posted August 7, 2022 After rapid development and intensive farming, China is to carry out a new national soil survey to help with its food security and carbon targets. […]
‘Soil observatories’ in China helping to create more sustainable agriculture
Originally published 2021/05/12 All over the world, agriculture is threatened by degraded soils – and China is no exception.Stripped of carbon from intensive farming, soils erode more easily, host fewer microbes […]
Western Marxism’s “purity fetish” and its misunderstanding of markets in China’s socialism
Carlos Garrido, the author of this article has argued elsewhere that at the core of Western Marxism’s [1] flawed analysis of socialist states lies a “purity fetish” which is grounded […]
For an Eco-Socialist Vision: Interview with Professor Qingzhi Huan
An interview with Professor Qingzhi Huan. He is professor of comparative politics at the Research Institute of Marxism at Peking University and a professor at the School of Political Science […]
The Eco-socialist Roots of Ecological Civilisation: Professor Arran Gare
Professor Arran Gare is an associate professor in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry with the Department of Social Sciences at Swinburne University, Australia. He argues that the notion of ecological civilization “establishes […]
Critique of 21st century imperialism and the growth of ecological Marxism: a view from China
The following was written by two Chinese Marxist academics, Professor Cheng Enfu and Dr Fu Hao, which reviews the positive role by the US magazine Monthly Review (established 1949) in […]
New ban set to end China’s super-tall construction craze
The 632-meter Shanghai Tower easily puts to shame other skyscrapers in China ever since its construction was finished in 2015. Sitting on the Huangpu River bank in Shanghai, it is […]
China is building world’s first commercial land-based Small Modular Reactor
China is building the “Linglong-1,” a small modular reactor (SMR) in the country’s southern island province of Hainan. It’s the world’s first of this type of reactor to be approved by […]