High-standard farmland

THE country will build at least 80 million mu (5.33 million hectares) of high-standard farmland this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said yesterday.

China has started building drought and flood resistant farmland since 2011, in a bid to ensure food security. By the end of 2018, China had already developed 640 million mu of such farmland, with grain output increasing 100 kg per mu on average.

3 killed, 14 injured

THREE people were killed and another 14 injured after a house collapsed in East China’s Fujian Province.

The accident happened at

5:50 a.m. Saturday in Cangshan District in the city of Fuzhou, the provincial capital, where a self-built house made of bricks and concrete fell, according to Fuzhou’s public security bureau.

The accident trapped 17 people, three of whom died due to severe injuries. The rest did not sustain life-threatening injuries, and six have been discharged from the hospital.

The two house owners, both surnamed Zheng, have been detained and are being investigated on suspicion of harming public security.

The collapsed house was built in 2003. An investigation of the accident is under way.