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言义分离练习 The Chinese mainland recorded US$ 1.4 trillion in foreign trade volume last year, helping China to remain the third largest trader in the world. A member of the US Senate Finance Committee, warned that Washington was likely to take measures to reduce imports from China to narrow the gap in bilateral trade. Chinese central government plans to abolish agricultural tax, which will help unify the tax system between rural and urban areas and greatly encourage the rural farmers to grow more crops. Abolition of agricultural tax does not necessarily mean that farmers will pay no tax. Rural residents will gradually be moved to other tax categories similar to their urban counterparts. As local revenues will decrease with the abolition of agricultural tax, major grain producing areas and central and western regions will receive assistance from the central government which will set aside some special fund to subsidize those areas. Credit loans to these overheated sectors must be tightly controlled next year. Instead, priority will be given to projects that improve the living standards and working conditions in rural areas, as well as basic education, public health and scientific research. The country would also take concrete measures to help farmers raise poultry as many farmers sustained heavy losses from the mandatory culling of poultry to prevent the spread of bird flu, which has affected 11 provinces. China and the United States yesterday failed to solve the long-simmering textile dispute, an impasse described by industry experts as a ?loss-loss? result which could see more categories of Chinese textiles facing restrictions. Neither the Chinese nor the US side gave any indication of whether they had made any progress or the reason for failing to reach an agreement. Nor did they say whether another round of talks was scheduled. 10．The meeting of the U.S –China Joint Economic Commission, which began Sunday, followed a weekend gathering outs