Kangmin Li 1998. Rice Aquaculture Systems in China:
A case of rice-fish farming from protein crops to cash crops   
In: Integrated Bio-Systems in Zero Emissions Applications.
Proceedings of the Internet Conference on Integrated Biosystems.
Eds: Eng-Leong Foo & Tarcisio Della Senta. 1998 http://www.ias.unu.edu/proceedings/icibs/li
 
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Mr. Kangmin Li 
Asian Pacific Regional Research 
and Training Centre for Integrated Fish Farming 
Wuxi 214081, P.R. China 
Tel: 0510-5801424,   0510 - 5802789 
Fax: 0510-5803304 
E-mail: cosmos@public1.wx.js.cn 

Mr. Kangmin Li (retired in 1995) graduated from CMC Engineering College and worked at the 
General Staff Headquarters of the People's Liberation Army. He finished his post graduate from the Luoyang Foreign Language Institute. Since 1983 he has been Deputy Director of the Asian Pacific Regional Research & Training Center for Integrated Fish Farming and from 1986 he has been conducting researches on integrated bio-systems (rice fish culture), blue-green algae control, extraction of phycocyanin from Microcystis aeruginosa and surface aquaponics, etc. He is currently the Deputy Director of Cell Bio Technology Research Institute.
Abstract
Rice fish culture is an age old practice and one of integrated bio-systems in China. It went through a long process of normal development,  severe fluctuation and rapid development. It shows its vitality in  1990s. Rice fish farming systems are now becoming rice aquaculture farming systems, developing from protein crops to cash crops. The paper describes present status and techniques by a case study and summarizes Chinese experience on developing rice aquaculture farming systems. The sustainable development of rice fish culture has its social, economic, cultural factors and radically, the philosophic concept of the Chinese people as well.