Today's News: No Chinese Agriculture Outsourcing; Chinese Trademark Pirates; China's Bioenergy Development; 30 Million Migrant Workers Unemployed

No Chinese investment in African farmland China decided not to follow the growing trend of investing in overseas farmland to outsource food production. According to Niu Den, deputy agriculture minister, outsourcing food production to Africa is not an option for China. While countries like South Korea and Saudi Arabia recently accelerated outsourcing of their? food production particularly to Africa, China will continue to depend on its own soil to maintain self-sufficiency in grain. Chinese trademark pirates have Chinese groups in their sights Chinese companies increasingly are falling victim to trademark pirates. Companies targeted include international heavyweights such as Bank of China, China Investment Corporation, China Minmetals and the Nasdaq-listed internet portal Sohu. Cases abound in which Chinese individuals registered Chinese companies’ trademarks in a given country ...