Beijing, China
July 10, 2008
Source:
Xinhua News Agency via
Checkbiotech
By Mu Xuequan
China's State Council, or cabinet, on Wednesday approved a
program for the development of transgenic species to shore up
the country's sustainable agricultural development.
The State Council agreed at an executive meeting that the
program is of strategic importance in strengthening the
country's capacity for agricultural technological innovation,
increasing farmers' income and enhance the agriculture sector's
global competitiveness.
The program aims to gain genes of great commercial value whose
intellectual property rights belong to China, and develop
high-quality, high-yield and pest-resistant genetically-modified
new species, according to the meeting presided over by Premier
Wen Jiabao.
The meeting urged relevant authorities to fully understand the
importance and urgency of the program and waste no time
implementing it.
The meeting also reviewed and approved a guideline on the
deepening of economic system reforms in 2008.
"China has gone through 30 years of reform and opening-up and
registered remarkable achievements in social and economic
development. The country is at a crucial stage of building a
moderately affluent society and the task of reform and
development is arduous," said the meeting.
As China marked the 30th year of economic reforms, it should
step up efforts for reform and opening-up, focus on system
building and innovation and solve deep-seated problems through
reforms, it said.
The meeting called on central and local authorities to map out
their general reform plans and work for breakthroughs in key
reforms that are significant to economic and social development.
© 2003 Xinhua News Agency
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Green
light for plan to boost genetically modified crops |
By Wu Jiao,
China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-07/11/content_6836524.htm
Source:
Origin Agritech Ltd.
Summary
Plan and
Budget
The State Council, at a meeting chaired by
Premier Wen Jiabao, approved a plan aimed at
promoting genetically modified crops (GMO). The
new program approved by the cabinet would cost
20 billion yuan ($2.92 billion).
Foreign Ban Continues
Also, the official document governing
foreign investment, the Catalogue of Industries
for Guiding Foreign Investment, as amended last
December, continued to ban foreign investment in
the development of GM crops in China.
Expedited Implementation
The approved plan emphasized the "strategic
significance" of GMO products in the development
of agriculture, emphasizing that departments
must fully understand the urgency of this
significant project, and further improve the
program to expedite implementation. Experts have
commented that the approval of the plan clearly
showed that the country was attaching more
importance to the development of transgenic
species.
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