China: The CCP is facing a food crisis

Published 2021년 9월 29일

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Xi Jinping's new agricultural reform aims to modernize farming and maintain 120 million hectares of land for permanent food cultivation. The government plans to use genetically modified organisms and subsidies to increase crop yields, while strict censorship is in place to prevent food waste. Despite trade disputes, China has pre-purchased Australian wheat. The author, an expert on the Chinese economy, discusses the potential impact of food shortages and the history of Mao's agricultural policies.
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[Epoch Times September 29, 2021] (The Epoch Times columnist Antonio Graceffo/Compiled by Qu Zhizhuo) Xi Jinping’s new agricultural reform sounds a lot like the policies of the Mao Zedong era. It is like a board game, involving the mobilization of manpower and Resources, plan the growth of grain production, and how much grain will be stored in the future, who will receive which resources, and who will be favored by the Chinese Communist Party. Mao Zedong’s agricultural policies caused 30 million deaths. Xi Jinping may do a little better, but only because the CCP will import food from France, Australia, the United States, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. In 2020, due to the epidemic, floods, and other external factors, as food prices soar, China will face food shortages. Although some aspects of the epidemic’s economy are better this year, China still faces the same systemic problem, that is, the population is too large. The per capita arable land area is about 60% less than most ...
Source: Epochtimes

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