Food Security in China

1. Food Security: One of China’s Most Important Topics 1.1 Population pressure 1.2 Resource pressures 1.3 Grain is taken as one of the most important topics in China 2. Chinese Understanding of Food Security 2.1 Quantity implications 2.2 Quality implications 2.3 Other implications 3. The “White Paper: The Grain Issues in China” 3.1 The background for publishing the white paper 3.2 The main contents of the paper 4. Basic Evaluation on China’s Food Security 4.1 Five-period development of food production 4.2 Domestic production basically meets consumer demand for food 4.3 Stable domestic food market 4.4 Consumers can easily gain their requested food for consumption 4.5 Identification of organic (green) food 4.6. Regional supply-and-demand equilibrium of grain 5. China’s Main Policies on Food Security 5.1. Policies for protecting cultivated land 5.2. “Governor Grain Responsibility System” 5.3. “Mayor Vegetable Basket Responsibility System” and “Vegetable Green Channel” 5.4. Basic self-sufficiency policy of food 5.5. Appropriate import of food 5.6. Development of commercial bases for food production 5.7. Expansion of state grain reserve capacity 5.8. Inter-regional trade equilibrium 5.9. Grain relief system 5.10. Grain marketing system restructuring 5.11. Food hygiene Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketches