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What should the new concept of food security be like?
Food security is closely linked to social harmony, political stability and sustained economic development. Under the new normal of economic development, based on the national conditions of China's population, land, urbanisation, industrialisation and people's living standards during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, it is predicted that in the next six years China's food demand will rise further
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A Major Grain-Producing County Stays Vigilant in Times of Peace to Safeguard Food Security
Nanbu County, situated in the hilly area of the northeastern Sichuan Basin, has a total population of over 1.3 million, of which 1.06 million are agricultural population, and a cultivated land area of over 800,000 mu. It has always been a major agricultural county in Sichuan Province. Since 2003, Nanbu County has not only kept pace with the nation's "ten consecutive years of grain increase,"
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The road to traceability for traditional Chinese medicinal materials is long and arduous
Food and drug safety is closely tied to everyone's daily life and is a major issue of public livelihood and public safety. In recent years, as the contradiction between the output of traditional Chinese medicinal materials and their supply and marketing has intensified, the prices of traditional Chinese medicines have fluctuated considerably, and cases of counterfeit and shoddy products in production and circulation have occurred from time to time.
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Food prices may fall slightly month-on-month; institutions forecast July CPI at 2.3%
According to the arrangements of the National Bureau of Statistics, important macroeconomic data including the July CPI (Consumer Price Index) will be released on August 9. As of August 6, multiple institutions had already published forecast reports for the July CPI, with institutions forecasting July CPI at 2.3%. Bank of Communications Financial Research
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Food cold chain development lags behind, food waste is enormous
The ice cream you bought is deformed, the yogurt has water droplets on the surface, and frozen dumplings fall apart as soon as they are boiled. These are actually all the result of a broken cold chain. Recently, at the press conference for the 2014 China International Agricultural Products Cold Chain Logistics Summit, Cui Zhongfu, vice president of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing
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China Edible Fungi Autumn Expo Promotes Mushroom Food Culture
The China International Edible Fungi Culinary Competition and the China (Yangling) Edible Fungi Industry Autumn Expo, hosted by the China Edible Fungi Association, the World Federation of Chinese Catering Industry, and the Yangling Demonstration Zone Management Committee, will be held from September 19 to 21 in Yangling, Shaanxi, and will invite famous
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China's Fresh Food Market Is Huge, and Connecting the Cold Chain Logistics Is the Key
China's fresh food market is so huge, yet the circulation of fresh products has long suffered from a lack of professional cold chain equipment and facilities, causing annual losses of over 100 billion yuan in fruits, vegetables, aquatic products and the like, and inadequate cold chain transport has become the bottleneck restricting the development of fresh food e-commerce. Recently, fresh food e-commerce
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Cultivated land is fundamental to safeguarding national food security.
Who decides on land transfer, what scale of land operation is appropriate, how to guide the "non-grain" use of cultivated land, and how to view the boom of industrial and commercial capital going to the countryside How to make land "circulate" At present, land transfer is showing a trend of accelerated development across the country. As of the end of 2013, the national contracted cultivated land transfer area was 340 million mu, 3.1 times that at the end of 2008, and the transfer ratio reached 26%, 17.1 percentage points higher than at the end of 2008. There were more than 2.87 million specialized large households with an operating area of more than 50 mu, and more than 870,000 family farms.
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Ensuring food security while protecting farmers' interests
"In order to ensure that all the grain farmers want to sell can be purchased, we built this covered shed warehouse, which requires little investment, delivers quick results, and can also ensure food security." On September 10, in No. 2 granary of the Siping City Second Grain Depot, depot director Li Shuguo stood atop a golden grain pile more than 6 meters high
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Increasing grain imports to ensure food security, real grain prices tend to decline
The issue of food security is an old topic. People of insight have long known that the Chinese can fully feed themselves. As early as 1994, when Lester Brown came to China with alarming claims, many domestic scholars pointed out that there were loopholes in Brown's calculations, the most serious being
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