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BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- One in every four Chinese villages had e-commerce distribution sites at the end of 2016, official data showed Thursday, reflecting an improved logistics network and new economic trends in rural areas.
By the end of 2016, 99.7 percent of villages had access to electricity, while 11.9 percent could use natural gas retail nike hyperadapt for sale , according to results of the country's third national agricultural survey.
A total of 91.3 percent of rural towns had centralized water supply, and 90.8 percent had centralized garbage treatment, while 53.5 percent of villages had finished or partly finished toilet renovation projects.
In terms of public services, a majority of towns had libraries, kindergartens and healthcare institutions, but relatively few had theaters and sports stadiums.
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The third census involved 5 million interviewees, more than 200 million rural households, and over 3 million businesses and other market entities.
While living standards in cities have drastically improved with China's stellar economic growth, the living environment for the country's 600 million rural people still has huge room for change.
Thursday's results highlighted the weak links in China's rural development, including a low level of agricultural industrialization and a big urban-rural gap.
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To spur rural development, the Chinese government has looked to e-commerce, tourism and modern agriculture for opportunities.
The data showed that at the end of 2016, 4.9 percent of Chinese villages had started to tap their tourism potential, up 2.7 percentage points from 2006, and 51 Men's Nike Air Maestro II LTD White Green For Sale ,000 rural businesses sold their farm produce through e-commerce platforms.
The State Council Wednesday called for more efforts to foster new types of agricultural business in the country.
Projects will be launched to support diverse business entities that integrate different industries and link to the Internet Plus strategy, said a statement released after a State Council meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.
Training plans will be implemented to cultivate new types of professional farmers to spur entrepreneurship and innovation in rural areas and lift more people out of poverty, the statement said.
Seb Coe in 2012 Photo: CFP
When British Seb Coe was at the peak of his powers in the 1980s, athletics attracted huge TV audiences and often dominated the back pages of newspapers around the world.
Thirty years on, the sport is fighting to make a connection with the next generation.
Although it remains the centerpiece of the Olympic Games, beyond that four-yearly celebration athletics is on the wane and Men's Nike ACG Dog Mountain Casual Black Purple For Sale , if it were not for the giant presence of Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt, it would be in real trouble.
A dire shortage of recognizable personalities, an ageing audience, a confusing calendar, a continuing struggle to attract interest in the United States and the dark shadow of doping has left athletics fighting for a foothold in an ever more crowded sporting and leisure landscape.
None of this is news to those who run the sport but Coe, who launched his campaign to become president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Wednesday Men's Nike PG 2 NCAA White Black For Sale , recognizes the need for remedial action is urgent.
"From the moment I joined an athletics club I was hooked for life but I am not hermetically sealed in the past," he said.
"There is much to celebrate, protect and nourish but also much that needs to change. There is a fundamental concern about where our next generation of spectators, TV viewers, competitors and coaches will come from.
"Despite many well-intentioned initiatives we have struggled to excite young people and articulate why athletics matters to them. This is unsustainable."
Such an admission is hard for a man for whom almost his entire life has been based around running.
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Ironically though, for a man who routinely dodged Ovett outside of major championship races, one of the issues that Coe has with the sport in the 21st century is its lack of the head-to-head showdowns that fans love.
Bolt, for example, carefully plans his calendar in a bid to maintain his unbeaten records and fans turning up or tuning in for a Diamond League meeting will often find him running in the 200 meters if the cream of the world's sprinting crop are lining up over 100.
It also hardly helps develop global appeal when half or more of an international field line up to race in identical sponsors' kit.
"We have to address that - in fact we were discussing exactly that issue in the council meeting last week," Coe told Reuters.
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