The Chinese Government has all along attached great importance to food security in the country. Since the inception of reform and opening up, China has maintained a high growth rate in grain production. In early 1990s, China’s grain output stood at around 450 million tons. In mid-1990s, China realized the historic transformation
from a prolonged short supply of major agricultural products to a general equilibrium in demand and supply and even supply surplus in abundant years, and managed to
feed its people through its own efforts, thus doing the wonder of supporting 21% of the world’s population with less than 9% of the world’s arable land. China’s
agriculture has since entered a new stage of development.
