Loan Subsidy Aims to Upgrade Agricultural Equipment and Facilities (opens in new tab)

Lack of investment is a roadblock to China's vision of a space-age agriculture with automated tractors and barns, internet-linked sensors, sprinklers, and heaters, and "green" recycling and circular systems. A new Chinese agricultural lending program aims to overhaul agricultural equipment and facilities to make a great leap toward high-tech and "green" priorities set by the 15th five-year plan, yet it has received hardly any publicity. China has several programs to promote investment: an agr...