China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Agriculture have jointly released the results of The First National Census of Pollution Sources.

China's State Council has established a Food Safety Commission according to the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China.

Barry Friedman, the vice president of Wal-Mart China, has stated that Wal-Mart will actively push forward the "Connecting Agriculture With Supermarkets" program in China, benefiting one million Chinese farmers over the next three years.

The agricultural departments of six provinces in central China have jointly signed an agreement on the quality and safety of farm products, and they will also set up a mechanism to mutually report the on supervision of agricultural products to determine the root cause of substandard products.

U.S.-based DuPont and the Institute of Plant Protection of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences have entered into a multi-year, exclusive research collaboration to improve in-plant insect control to help increase worldwide crop yields.

China's Ministry of Finance and the China Banking Regulatory Commission are studying on the draft of a measure to annul bad loans for small and medium size enterprises and companies specializing in agriculture services.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China has issued an emergency circular, in which it asks that four measures to be taken to support the local government's efforts in drought relief.