Daily News April 8, 2014

Grain, Poultry and Food Security

Hungary actively enhancing relations with China: PM, Xinhuanet

Hungary has been working hard in the past years to enhance ties with China, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a Monday international news conference in Budapest.

U.S. extends antidumping duty on crawfish tail meat from China, Xinhuanet

A U.S. government agency decided on Friday to maintain the existing antidumping duty on crawfish tail meat from China, despite Beijing's repeated calls for Washington to drop protectionism.

Exemption of pesticides from new law 'not giving into mainland': Food and Health Bureau. A decision to exempt three pesticides from a new food safety law was not a case of "giving in" to the mainland, the Food and Health Bureau said yesterday. South China Morning Post

Video: China targets U.S. pig imports, Marketplace

Tougher new restrictions are being placed on imported live pigs from the United States, which represents a small portion of pork products that the U.S. exports to China.

COLUMN-China's grain trader deals pose a threat to 'ABCDs': Maguire, Reuters

 The largest players in the global agriculture trading industry are likely to be cut out of a growing share of world crop trade following the recent move by China's trading arm COFCO to acquire majority stakes in Nidera and Noble Group Ltd's agriculture businesses.

China’s Role in Global Trade

China allows Brazilian corn imports

China has allowed Brazilian corn imports to start this month, a further blow to U.S. exports to the world's No.2 consumer of the grain already hurt by the discovery of an unapproved genetically modified strain in shipments. 

How does environmental pollution influences supply chain model

Giant bubbles could be 'built over Beijing parks to save residents from smog danger.' Beijing has the worst smog levels among the world's capital cities - so bad that playing sports outdoor is often banned - but it could get a stunning new set of lungs in the form of a covered botanical garden, retail and office complex under a giant transparent roof. South China Morning Post, China.

Environmental Pollution and Health

Many nations wary of extracting carbon from air to fix climate, Reuters

Many nations want a draft U.N. report to tone down prospects for sucking greenhouse gases from the air to help fix global warming, reckoning the technologies are risky, documents seen by Reuters show.

World’s biggest coal company Shenhua to stop exploiting groundwater in China, Greenpeace

Beijing, 8 April 2014 – The Shenhua Group, the world's biggest coal producer by volume, is to stop extracting groundwater for their flagship coal-to-liquid project in Inner Mongolia’s Ordos - an area struggling with severe water shortages affecting farmers and herders.

Xinhua Insight: China's pollution permit market must be revamped, Xinhuanet

New government plans to strengthen China's "pollution permit" market have been applauded as the meaningfulness of existing trials of the system has been called into question.

Beijing to invest heavily in revitalizing polluted land, want China Times

China's government plans to invest tens of billions of yuan annually over the next six years to find a solution to soil pollution, which affects 200 million acres of arable land, or one tenth of the ...

China's smog splits expatriate families as companies pay for fresh air. As bad air chokes Chinese cities, some expatriates are starting to leave families in their home countries, the latest sign of pollution's rising cost to the more than half-a-million foreigners working in China and the multinationals seeking to retain them. Business Week. 

China's green environmental march benefits US, world. China, the country that consumes more energy and emits more greenhouse gases than any other nation, has made a name for itself as an environmental leader. Its breakthroughs in green technology stand to help not only its residents, but those of the US and the rest of the world. China Daily.