The project was inspired by the painting Nine Dragons (1244) by Chen Rong, a Chinese painter and politician of the Southern Song Dynasty. Over seven months starting in January 2000, Hardy painted approximately 5 feet of scroll at a time, carefully numbering each dragon in Chinese characters.
The program resulted in the reduction of 4 billion kilograms of grains last year, accounting for just 0.6 percent of China's grain output, he said.
The project aims to speed up the process of splitting about 1.4 million hectares of land covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and then providing individual titles to these parcelized lots to some 750,000 farmer-beneficiaries.
The president typically answers questions on a broad range of topics - from foreign policy to the state of provincial roads to his private life - and receives televised requests from the far corners of Russia.
The president highlighted the close cultural and educational relations and an increasing number of tourists between China and Estonia.
The proportion of urban residents among the total population stood at 60.6 percent in China
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The production plant of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group at Ningbo, Zhejiang province. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The president visited displaced families from Marawi who are currently staying at an evacuation center in Iligan City and led the distribution of financial and relief aid.
The project will reduce the need for sick people to visit a doctor's office or clinic, lowering the chance of exposing others, said the paper.
The production line for refined oil commenced operations in June, with small-packaged edible oil production expected to begin at the end of the year.