It was the first time I had set foot on European
soil.
那是我第一次踏上欧洲大地。
They grow rice in the rich
soil in south China.
他们在中国南方肥沃的土地上种植水稻。
His misbehavior
soiled his reputation.
他的不端行为玷污了他的声誉。
Regenerative agriculture — farming that focuses on pollution reduction and ecological restoration — has emerged as a leading frontier in the industry globally, which improves soil health, enhances productivity and increases farmers' incomes with customized solutions.
再生农业——专注于减少污染和生态恢复的农业——已成为全球农业的领先前沿，通过定制的解决方案改善土壤健康，提高生产力，增加农民收入。
The cooperative is conducting direct-seeded rice trials, which combine technologies concerning water conservation, soil improvement and emissions reduction, showing farmers how crops can be cultivated more cost-efficiently while preserving water and soil.
该合作社正在进行直接播种水稻试验，将节水、土壤改良和减排技术相结合，向农民展示如何在保持水土的同时更具成本效益地种植作物。
The program offers support to farmers involved from seed selection, soil improvement and cultivation to final procurement, contributing to the country's rural vitalization.
该项目为农民提供从选种、土壤改良和种植到最终采购的支持，为国家的农村振兴做出贡献。
"Dumper trucks are mainly used in city construction and the transportation of ballast soil and coal.
自卸车主要用于城市建设和压载土和煤的运输。
Syngenta Group China, a business unit of seed and crop protection as well as nutrition product manufacturer Syngenta Group, plans to build more Modern Agriculture Platform (MAP) -themed farmland in China to help cut water usage and improve soil quality in the coming years, said an executive.
一位高管表示，先正达集团（中国）是种子和作物保护的业务部门，也是营养产品制造商先正达集团，计划在未来几年在中国建造更多以现代农业平台（MAP）为主题的农田，以帮助减少用水，改善土壤质量。
He said an example is the integration of PV with water irrigation systems to improve soil quality in arid areas.
他说，一个例子是将光伏与水利灌溉系统相结合，以改善干旱地区的土壤质量。
The McDonald's China Regenerative Agriculture Plan will focus on five key areas: nature, soil, water, livestock, and farmers.
麦当劳中国再生农业计划将重点关注五个关键领域：自然、土壤、水、牲畜和农民。
Despite the COVID-19 outbreaks in China, Veolia still managed to carry out water and soil restoration projects with local companies including Jinneng Holding Group last year while conducting new projects including indoor air purification for the Shanghai Museum, he said.
他表示，尽管新冠肺炎疫情在中国爆发，但威立雅去年仍与包括晋能控股集团在内的当地公司开展了水土恢复项目，同时为上海博物馆开展了室内空气净化等新项目。
In comparison with traditional tunnel-boring methods like rock drilling, blasting and hand mining in soil, the use of such equipment can minimize the impact on the surrounding ground and produce a smooth tunnel wall, helping certain tunnel projects run through unstable geological conditions.
与传统的隧道钻孔方法（如岩石钻孔、爆破和在土壤中手工采矿）相比，使用这种设备可以最大限度地减少对周围地面的影响，并形成光滑的隧道壁，帮助某些隧道项目穿越不稳定的地质条件。
In addition to adopting the double-joint design for ultra-small turning radius, the giant machine is also equipped with a series of smart systems such as advanced geological detection, high-precision gas-liquid equilibrium and visualized soil bin monitoring, which helps ensure engineering security during construction.
除了采用超小转弯半径的双关节设计外，该巨型机器还配备了先进的地质探测、高精度气液平衡、可视化土仓监测等一系列智能系统，有助于确保施工过程中的工程安全。
"Aside from the impact from the Ulan Buh Desert, what made protection work even harder is that the area is confronting multiple impacts brought by the environmental issues of neighboring areas, such as water and soil erosion at Wula Mountain and landslide issues in nearby mining areas," said Jia Haiyuan, project manager with Third Construction Co Ltd of China Construction First Group (CSCEC1B3), a unit of China State Construction Engineering Group Co Ltd. With the area facing tough and numerous environmental issues, Ulansuhai Nur has an area "awaiting cleanup" of its 14,700 square kilometers, making it the "hardest nut to crack" among its peers, which was exactly what the company was facing back in June 2019, when it came here to work with the local government to make fundamental changes to the area.
中建一集团第三建筑有限公司（CSCEC1B3）项目经理贾海元表示：“除了乌兰布沙漠的影响外，使保护工作更加困难的是，该地区还面临着周边地区环境问题带来的多重影响，如乌拉山的水土流失和附近矿区的滑坡问题。”，作为中国建筑工程集团有限公司旗下的子公司，由于该地区面临着严峻和众多的环境问题，乌兰海努尔有14700平方公里的“待清理”区域，成为同行中“最难解决的问题”，这正是该公司在2019年6月面临的问题，当它来到这里与当地政府合作，对该地区进行根本性的改变时。
To this end, we have to restore the soil-fixing capacity of the whole area, and that's why we have been planting trees and grasses constantly," Jia said, adding that the plants they used to fix soil can also generate income for participating farmers, such as cistanche bushes and fruit trees.
为此，我们必须恢复整个地区的土壤固定能力，这就是为什么我们一直在不断地植树种草，”贾说，并补充说，他们用来固定土壤的植物也可以为参与的农民带来收入，如肉苁蓉灌木和果树。
Together with 1,533 hectares of economic forest planting, CSCEC1B3 said these efforts will effectively help prevent soil erosion and improve the ecological environment of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.
CSCEC1B3表示，加上1533公顷的经济林种植，这些努力将有效地防止水土流失，改善黄河中下游的生态环境。
"Before our tunneling machine finally reached its journey-end at Hainan Road Station, it went underneath two rivers and two bridges, and the soil down there is mainly mucky clay, making tunneling and consolidation work tough nuts to crack," he said.
他说：“在我们的隧道掘进机最终到达海南路站的终点之前，它穿过了两条河流和两座桥梁，下面的土壤主要是淤泥质粘土，这使得隧道掘进和加固工作难以破解。”。
Leading French environmental solutions provider Suez said its water management and hazardous waste treatment services for industrial clients and sewage sludge disposal and soil remediation work in Shanghai have been under closed-loop operations so far.
法国领先的环境解决方案提供商苏伊士表示，到目前为止，其为工业客户提供的水管理和危险废物处理服务以及上海的污泥处理和土壤修复工作一直处于闭环运行状态。
Syngenta Group China, one of the four major business units of Syngenta Group - the global seeds, crop protection and nutrition product manufacturer, will enhance biodiversity and soil health across China via its tailor-made programs in the coming years, said its executives.
先正达集团高管表示，先正达集团中国区是全球种子、作物保护和营养产品制造商先正达集团的四大业务部门之一，未来几年将通过其量身定制的计划，增强中国各地的生物多样性和土壤健康。
As the company is currently building a research and development facility in China with the goal of running it as one of group's key global innovation centers, the firm said one of its main tasks will be focusing on soil health and biologics to improve the condition of the nation's soil through biotechnology.
由于该公司目前正在中国建设一个研发设施，目标是将其作为集团的关键全球创新中心之一运营，该公司表示，其主要任务之一将专注于土壤健康和生物制品，通过生物技术改善国家土壤状况。
According to the 2022 "No 1 central document," China will develop 6.67 million hectares of high-standard farmland, promote national projects on black soil protection, and launch the third nationwide soil condition census, as per the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
根据农业农村部2022年“中央一号文件”，中国将开发667万公顷高标准农田，推进国家黑土保护工程，并启动第三次全国土壤状况普查。
Jiang Yekui, chief sustainable officer of Syngenta Group China, said it is vital to introduce the systematic solutions to help improve soil health level across the country, because a large number of products, such as biological organic fertilizer and slow-release fertilizer, are being used in the China.
先正达集团中国区首席可持续发展官姜业奎表示，引入系统解决方案以帮助提高全国土壤健康水平至关重要，因为中国正在使用大量产品，如生物有机肥料和缓释肥料。
Since China has between 300 and 400 million mu (20 and 26.67 million hectares) of saline-alkali land, the application of soil conditioner can help the country better improve the farming condition of these land.
由于中国有3亿至4亿亩（2000万至2667万公顷）盐碱地，土壤改良剂的应用可以帮助国家更好地改善这些土地的耕作条件。
MAP sales tripled to $1.5 billion in the first nine months by helping farmers improve soil health, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the quality and value of their crops.
Together with 1,533 hectares of economic forest planting and 667 hectares of aerial seeding afforestation conducted by CSCEC1B3, company President Wang Liang said these efforts will help effectively prevent soil erosion and improve the ecological environment of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.
Syngenta Group, the seeds, crop protection and nutrition product manufacturer, plans to improve soil health and improve carbon sequestration on at least 2 million hectares of farmland by 2023 – about 2 percent of the country's farmland, its global head said.
"Syngenta Group and our partners are encouraging farmers to not burn leftover straw in their fields and incorporate their straw and crop leftovers into the soil," said Erik Fyrwald, the group's CEO.
"We are creating ways to produce those essential ingredients in a regenerative way … with lavender, with almond, to regenerate the biodiversity, the soil, and to capture carbon," said Adrien Geiger, the company's sustainability officer.
Researchers will also study the impact of soil structure, efficiency of agricultural machinery, farmland ecology and grain yield in the next three years.
In terms of climate and soil conditions, Jiangsu, especially in its northern part, is the most suitable region for the growth of malting barley.
Those organic matters can effectively improve soil quality," Zhou said.
"The climate and soil condition in Huichuan district, Zunyi city in Guizhou is ideal for mushrooms to grow, which is an important reason why we located our business here," Xi added.
Such businesses view the country as a "too-big-to-miss" market bolstering global growth and also as fertile soil to foster indigenous innovation to keep the nation and themselves afloat.
Zhang Boyang, chairman of the Jiangsu province-based company, said the 1,469-meter tunnel is being built through a mixture of cohesive soil, gravel, sandy soil and fine gravel that has a high underground water level and abundant surface water.
Yet, it has suitable climate and the soil for planting indigo.
According to the agreement, the three parties will form a joint venture to provide hydrogen service for commercial road transport vehicles in the fields of postal services, express and logistics and ballast soil transportation.
"In the process of building smart cities, Huawei aims to construct the essential and fundamental platform, or the soil, for all partners to thrive, and to bring in all their capacities so as to help drive digital transformation forward," Yan said.
"As a society and a market, you can see the huge change in this country, and this can be a fertile soil for companies like Jollychic," he said.
The local market is fertile soil.
China is a big agricultural country, with water and soil at the heart of its sustainable development.
Under such circumstances, Elkem launched the Si-Agro series, which reduces heavy metal pollution in crops and the mobility of heavy metals in the soil, and can increase farmers' incomes and rice yields, whilst slowing down soil desertification and salinization.
The project has detailed regulations on atmospheric protection, production and domestic sewage treatment, soil and water conservation, etc.
"We are now working with strategic partners to support China's future quality growth, addressing opportunities like transit-oriented development, and challenges like soil remediation and river restoration.
Partnering with China Environmental Protection Foundation – a non-profit organization dedicated to environmental protection in China, the company plans to plant Chinese pines and Armeniaca sibiricas in 133,000 square meters in the mountain of the Fengning, so as to maintain water and soil level, prevent windstorms, fix sand, regulate climate and effectively repair and improve local ecological environment.
"The combining chance of advanced breeding technologies that makes the seeds smarter and more productive, together with modern crop protection products that are friendlier to the environment, coupled with biological technologies that really helps explore the power of microorganisms in the soil, with digital tools as integrators, you bring all of these together.
"The difficulty was how to transform the land with a poor soil structure and low infiltration capacity into fields suitable for crops plantation,"said Wang.
China has taken substantial steps to deliver on its green commitments, including targets to achieve zero growth in the use of pesticides and fertilizers, and through encouraging resource-efficient, soil conservation and eco-friendly farming systems.
The AGTrace facility will collect data such as air and soil temperature, humidity and light intensity, according to Yi.
"By providing remote monitoring services, farmers can access information covering the weather, pests and soil, as well as images, from anywhere, and customers can obtain information about the agricultural products from planting and processing through to distribution," said Yi.
Alibaba has pledged to cooperate with a saline soil rice research and development (R&D) team to increase production and farmers' incomes, according to Thursday's Beijing Youth Daily.
The saline soil rice R&D team of Yuan Longping, China's "father of hybrid rice," will be supported by Alibaba in retail and big data.
The saline soil rice will be cultivated on a large scale with the cooperation of Yuan's team and Alibaba, vice president of the e-commerce giant Wang Jianxun told the newspaper.
And Alibaba will help explore the sale of saline soil rice.
Cultivating the saline soil rice could both increase the country's grain yield and help farmers shake off poverty, the newspaper said.
The land was flooded by the Yellow River, China's second longest, in the 1930s due to war and became unsuitable for farming because of high soil salinity.
"Though difficult to make the first step, the security industry is the native soil to nurture facial recognition technologies, for police departments often have a huge demand for real-time image-matching services, and they deal with tons of data that can help train our system," Zhu said.
"All mushrooms and organic foods are from a specific provinces (that) have rich and good-quality soil.
The manufacture of graphene on Chinese soil is good news for domestic companies looking to place large orders.
THE HAGUE — Elion Resources Group, a UN-awarded Chinese leading actor in ecological restoration, and Verhoeve Environment & Water, a Dutch leading company in soil and water quality care, signed an acquisition agreement on Thursday to join hands in building a healthier environment.
"Verhoeve has world-leading technologies in soil and water restoration, which are highly needed in the Chinese market.
"Based on our experience on soil remediation and water treatment we would like to explore the Chinese market better, with help from Elion," Art Lobs, its general director told Xinhua.
In one of its latest ambitious projects, the company teams with Royal Dutch Gunpowder Factory to restore an abandoned woodland containing many inheritances in the soil of the industrial past since the late 19th century where powders and explosives were produced.
MRL's chief executive officer Darwis Abdul Razak said, the Pre-Q exercise was timely as MRL is progressing smoothly in the land acquisition processes in the East Coast states, and have also started soil investigation on several sizeable sites prior to civil works taking shape.
These works include checking the soil conditions, and assessing cooling facilities and design strategies to protect the local biodiversity, according to Richard Mayson, director of Bradwell Power Generation Co. As the first nuclear power plant in a developed economy using Chinese technology, Bradwell is expected to pave the way for the international expansion of the country's nuclear industry.
These works include checking the soil condition; assessment of cooling facilities and design strategies to protect the local biodiversity, according to Richard Mayson, director of Bradwell Power Generation Company.
"During the past decade, M-Grass' team has traveled across the regions to collect more than 8,000 different grass seeds and more than 11,000 soil samples.
"By the end of last year, M-Grass had set up an intelligent search platform, integrating data on grass, soil, water, meteorology, livestock and microbial.
The sustainable agriculture project, by training the farmers in soil, water and pesticide management, will help 30,000 local farmers upgrade the quality of their tea products, meet Western market standards, and thereby increase their exports and incomes.
"China has provided fertile soil for the development and expansion of new technologies and business forms," said Pan Yuanyuan, a researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The meeting has underscored concrete measures such as prioritizing high-standard farmland construction in areas with black soil, plain fields and irrigation systems, and raising investment subsidies.
In addition, rigorous quality control is applied throughout the entire building process, encompassing areas such as soil standards, seedling specifications and planting requirements, to ensure high-standard quality with the local government's firm commitment to building parks that stand the test of time, said the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department of Shandong province.
"In pursuit of sustainable solutions, Chinese experts like Zhang have been heading to Mauritania since 2015 to introduce soil improvement techniques and implement innovative water-saving irrigation methods.
With a focus on soil health and food security, the 30th China Yangling Agricultural High-Tech Fair will be held from Sept 19 to 23 in the Yangling Demonstration Zone in Shaanxi province, said its organizers during a news conference in Beijing on Wednesday.
In order to further consolidate international consensus on protecting and taking good use of soil resources, a global soil health forum will be held for the first time in Yangling, from Sept 19-20, as part of the expo's efforts to push forward international cooperation on agricultural industry, said the organizers.
China has gained useful experience during its active exploration of soil health and actual practices.
The Shenzhen branch, as a core project of the Hetao Sci-tech Zone's Shenzhen section, will become a flagship innovation and technology platform to showcase Hong Kong's sci-tech achievements on Shenzhen soil, Lee said.
Photovoltaic power generation not only saves energy and reduces carbon emissions, but also helps with soil and water conservation on barren hills and prevents the expansion of desertification, Tian added.
Third, creating the scenarios to satisfy consumer demand provides the soil for stimulating consumption vitality.
Wu Lixia, vice-president of the Gansu Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said the province, with its rich and diverse climate types and abundant sunlight, clean soil, water resources and air — plus a big temperature differential — has good natural conditions for developing its characteristic agriculture.
"If comparing social and economic development to a towering tree, then supporting market entities improve the soil underneath," said Gao Peiyong, vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
"If comparing social and economic development to a towering tree, then supporting market entities is to improve the soil underneath," said Gao Peiyong, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
"If comparing social and economic development to a towering tree, then supporting market entities is to improve the soil underneath," said Gao Peiyong, vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
"We must safeguard our clear sky, clean water and soil through pollution prevention and control, environmental protection, and ecological control and restoration," Ren said.
With the completion of the final construction phase, the station becomes the first one of its kind domestically built on soft soil ground while being able to carry out train maintenance work, which is rarely seen in the sector as such geological conditions are usually deemed as unfit for long-time train stoppage.
By leveraging the advantages of a subtropical climate and fertile soil, Zhijin county of Bijie in the mountainous province of Guizhou hopes to become a national production and commercial center for Chinese honey locusts, whose fruit can be used for making medicines.
It quoted Feng Limei, general manager of a company in Foshan, Guangdong province, saying that bamboo will not cause soil erosion during harvest and has a fast growth cycle.
The subtropical climate, clean air and fertile soil make Liupanshui, a city in mountainous Guizhou province, ideal for cultivating tasty, high-quality kiwifruit, growers said.
Reforming government functions is like improving the soil for the growth of market entities, policies of tax reductions are like adding fertilizers and water, and the initiative of mass entrepreneurship and innovation helps market entities to take root and grow, he said.
China will nurture 6.67 million hectares of high-quality farmland and protect 5.3 million hectares of black soil this year, and the third national soil survey will be launched, it said.
As the project passes many environmentally sensitive zones, requirements on soil and water conservation, noise control, air pollution and environmental protection－especially the prevention of cyanobacteria in Taihu Lake－are extremely strict," said Cai Chaoyang, Fei's colleague.
Furthermore, the meeting decided, government departments will conduct a package assessment covering geological disaster risks and soil and water conservation before approving land use.
The country has also been strengthening its regulation of the digital industry to provide fertile soil for high-quality growth.
Xia Guocai, a former official of the NDRC, said: "After years of rapid economic development, the ecological environment has previously been severely damaged and polluted, and ecological disasters such as land desertification, land salinization, soil erosion and forest resource destruction have seriously threatened the survival and development of human society.
Wang said she is aware ecological farming is a better alternative as it protects soil, water and climate, promotes biodiversity, and does not contaminate the environment with chemical inputs.
"The paulownia trees growing in the sandy soil of the old course of the Yellow River have clear growth rings.
"Guizhou features a humid climate, insufficient sunlight and severe soil erosion issues in some places.
We invited agricultural experts from Jiangsu province to come and inspect the land and collect soil samples after which we decided on which crop species were suitable for cultivation.
"Different farmlands have different water, soil and air conditions.
Ma said as the average annual temperature covering the tunnel is-10 C, the frozen soil there is half a meter deep on average.
"Thanks to soil and climate conditions in Patagonia, quality of cherries produced there are guaranteed, making "the Argentine supply at the same level of fruit from Australia or New Zealand," he said.
In comparison with traditional tunnel boring methods like rock drilling, blasting and hand mining in soil, the use of such giant TBMs could minimize the impact on the surrounding ground and produce a smooth tunnel wall, helping certain tunnel projects run through unstable geological conditions.
By using a giant machine measuring 15.03 meters in diameter and 135 meters long and weighing 4,000 metric tons, the company said its excavation work has entered the critical period of the project, as it will dig toward the deepest point within the rock and soil parts underneath the Yangtze River.
For instance, some machinery can initiate irrigation after automatically assessing soil moisture and air humidity levels.