Food Security in China
China DailyEditor's note: China's State Council Information Office on Monday issued a white paper titled "Food Security in China". Currently China's per capita food output is around 470 kg, growing by 14 percent from 414 kg since 1996 when China published its first white paper on food-The Grain Issue in China, and by 126 percent from 209 kg in 1949, when the PRC was founded. China's total food output surpassed ・ 550 million tons in 2010, ・ 600 million tons in 2012, ・ 660 million tons in 2015, ・ 650 million tons for four years from 2015. In 2018 the figure was near 660 million tons, up 30 percent over 1996, the year China published its first white paper on food security, 116 percent over 1978, the year of the launch of China's reform and opening up, and by nearly 600 percent over 1949, the year the PRC was founded. Currently China supplies 95 percent of its own needs for grain, laying down a solid material foundation for maintaining national food security, promoting socioeconomic development, and safeguarding long-term peace and stability.