Rural revitalization, rural infrastructure, social change, and public services.
In this episode, the Food Talk host travels to Tongxiang, Zhejiang, accompanying Yu Jiangang—a young man who returned to his roots—to visit the village where he was born, raised, and has now returned. They explore the village’s final acre of Hangbai chrysanthemums and the biodiversity and Jiangnan culture that surround…
In Europe and Japan, there is a long history of children learning through nature and agriculture. Every year, primary school pupils are organised by their schools to visit the fields to learn how to sow, nurture, and produce food—moving from the classroom to the outdoors, and from spring ploughing to…
The theme of today’s Central Document No. 1 is, unsurprisingly, rural revitalisation once again. With rural affairs having been the focus of this document for twenty consecutive years, the media, the public, and the government are all under pressure to innovate and ‘find some highlights’. In recent years, the involvement…
Once pioneer species establish themselves within an ecosystem, they gradually improve its carrying capacity, paving the way for a wider variety of other species to enter. As biodiversity within the system increases, the pioneer species themselves are gradually marginalised. — Pioneer species, an ecological concept I. I. Around ten years…
