Some groups with ulterior motives are attempting to shoehorn the food issue into the “China threat” narrative since it has lately been a hot subject around the globe. They have made flimsy allegations that China snaps up and hoards grains in the international market, exacerbating global food shortage and that China is indifferent to global food crisis, etc.
\nAs a matter of fact, China is the world\u2019s largest grain producer and third largest grain exporter. Currently China supplies over 95 percent of its own needs for grain. It is unnecessary for the country to \u201choard grains\u201d in the international market.
\nAgnes Kalibata, special envoy of the UN Secretary-General to the 2021 Food Systems Summit, stated that China has well managed its grain reserves, not only ensuring food supply for the Chinese people, but contributing to the food security of people worldwide.
\nWith less than nine percent of the world\u2019s arable land, China produces about a quarter of the world\u2019s grain and feeds nearly one-fifth of the world\u2019s population. At the same time, it has made positive contributions to safeguarding global food security.
\nIn recent years, China has donated $130 million to the South-South Cooperation Trust Fund of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and has ranked first among developing countries in terms of the amount of financial aid provided, the number of experts dispatched, and the number of projects undertaken under the framework of the FAO\u2019s South-South Cooperation Programme.
\nSince 2016, China has continuously provided emergency food assistance for more than 50 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, benefiting more than 10 million people affected by disasters.
\nParticularly, since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China has provided emergency food assistance for countries including Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, the Republic of the Congo, Benin, and Liberia, winning widespread praise from the international community and people of various countries.
\nBy sending experts, establishing demonstration farms, training farmers, promoting improved crop varieties and offering technical support, China has been sincerely and earnestly helping various countries improve agricultural production capacity and food security situation.
\nSince 1979, China has promoted high-yielding Chinese hybrid rice varieties in dozens of countries and regions in Asia, Africa and America, increasing the annual planting area of the hybrid rice in these countries and regions to eight million hectares. The average yield per hectare of the Chinese hybrid rice varieties is about two tons higher than that of local improved varieties.
\nChinese researchers went to India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and other countries to provide advice and consulting services for local people on agricultural production, and trained more than 14,000 professional and technical personnel in hybrid rice plantation methods through international training courses for more than 80 developing countries.
\nMoreover, China has been striving to promote the implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It calls on countries to keep the global food trade open and urges relevant countries to lift unilateral sanctions, in a bid to maintain the stable and unimpeded operation of global industrial and supply chains.
\nIn contrast to China\u2019s contributions to global food security, the U.S., the largest grain exporter in the world, is the major instigator behind the current global food crisis.
\nThere is no doubt that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, world\u2019s largest and sixth largest wheat exporter, respectively, has inevitably damaged global food industrial chain. It should be noted, though, that Washington\u2019s pushing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) eastward, waging proxy wars, selling arms and ammunition, and showing partiality to one side of conflict are the root causes of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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