In-Depth Analysis: China Will Push for Greater Self-Reliance in Food

(Oxford Analytica) — China’s government insists that it faces a major food security challenge, despite impressive output increases and bumper harvests. President Xi Jinping last year called for “a sense of crisis about food security.” Behind such statements lies an awareness of environmental threats and natural disasters, a shrinking and ageing farm labor force, shortages of water and arable land, and food waste on an enormous scale.