标题: China Farming Abroad [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-30-2011 12:18 标题: China Farming Abroad 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
(1) 默瑟, 澳议员呼吁阻止中国公司收购农田. VOA Chinese, June 30, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110630-China-Foreign-Investment.html
, which is translated from
Phil Mercer, Australia Urged to Protect Key Farmland from Foreign Buyers. VOA, June 30, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Australia-Urged-to-Protect-Key-Farmland-from-Foreign-Buyers-124765804.html
Quote:
"The Chinese state-owned mining company Shenhua Watermark Coal has purchased large areas of coal-rich farmland in New South Wales, where deposits are reportedly significant enough to sustain a 30-year mining operation. The deal has been approved by the Foreign Investment Review Board but critics believe Australia is wrong to lose control of such important resources. The government in Canberra says it is satisfied with current regulations.
"Australia is the largest recipient of Chinese overseas foreign investment after Hong Kong.
Note: Shenhua Watermark Coal 神华沃特马克煤矿有限公司 (a wholy owned subsidiary of 中国神华)
(2) Jude Webber and Leslie Hook, China Looks to Argentina as Growing Source of Food. Financial Times, June 30, 2011
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f6fa1f6-a28f-11e0-9760-00144feabdc0.html
("on unproductive land in a dry corner of Argentina")
Quote: "Argentina, the world’s biggest exporter of soya oil and third-biggest of soya- beans, as well as one of the world’s top cereals producers, already sells 90 per cent of its soya exports to China
Note: pulse (legume)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_(legume)
(The term "pulse", as used by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), is reserved for crops harvested solely for the dry seed. This excludes green beans and green peas, which are considered vegetable crops. Also excluded are crops that are mainly grown for oil extraction (oilseeds like soybeans and peanuts), and crops which are used exclusively for sowing (clovers, alfalfa))