Cong Liang, head of the State Grain and Reserves Administration
China has been improving its capability of ensuring food security over the past decade, with higher annual grain output and stable market operation, an official said yesterday.
With a sound food security situation, “China has guaranteed that its food supply remains firmly in its own hands,” Cong Liang, head of the State Grain and Reserves Administration, told a press conference.
China’s grain output has stayed above 650 million tonnes for seven solid years. In 2021, the figure hit a new high of 682.85 million tonnes.
As evidence of the capability of ensuring food security, China’s farmland totals 128 million hectares, its standard warehouses boast 700 million tonnes of grain storage capacity, and the number of emergency-responding grain processing enterprises reaches 6,000.
While global food markets were unstable in recent years, China’s market has kept sufficient supply and stable operation, effectively meeting people’s needs and contributing to healthy economic development and social stability, Cong said, adding that China will continue to be well-positioned for ensuring food security.
China will unswervingly expand all-around opening up and push economic globalization toward being more open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial to all, Zhao said.
“There has been misunderstanding about the new pattern of development that is focused on the domestic economy and features positive interplay between domestic and international economic flows.”
id it is wrong to think that by focusing on the domestic economy China will scale back its opening-up efforts or even turn to a “self-sufficient economy,” said Zhao.
Economic globalization has become an irreversible trend, he said, adding that China is already deeply integrated into the global economy and the international system, and the industries of China and many other countries are highly interconnected and interdependent.
He said fostering a new pattern of development is important for China to achieve development that is of higher quality and is more efficient, fair, sustainable and secure. Xinhua
