Chinese Rice Bowl examines China’s efforts to become resilient and self-sufficient in its national food security strategy. As the most populous nation on the planet, China is currently experiencing a triple whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and global uncertainty. In addition, internal challenges such as rising incomes pushing up food demand, decreasing arable land, soil and water contamination, and water shortages are also affecting the country’s goal of safeguarding its food security. Indeed, in August 2020, Chinese President, Xi Jinping, launched a campaign against food wastage. Nevertheless, China is one of the few countries which has shown consistent improvements in food security in the last decade. Not only has the country provided sufficient food for its large population, it has also raised quality of life and boosted nutritional levels. Using the “Five Forces” model, this book uses the five variables of resource support, agricultural production, innovative reform, national regulation, and international competition to analyze China’s food security from the context of national economic development and global food price volatility. Food security remains a top priority for the Chinese government, and is integral to social stability and national security
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Part I
The “Five Forces” Model Guarantees China’s Food Security
Chapter 1 Food Security from the Resident Perspective
Chapter 2 Food Security from the Digital Perspective
Chapter 3 Food Security from the Strategic Perspective
Part II
Resource Support Force: Integrated Promotion Between Food Security and Optimal Allocation of Land Resources
Chapter 4 Intensive Land Use and Food Intensification
Chapter 5 Large-Scale Land Use and Food Industrialization
Chapter 6 Land Use Zoning and Food Regionalization
Chapter 7 Sustainable Land Use and Food Sustainability
Part III
Agricultural Production Force: Mutual Impetus Between Food Security and Industrialization & Urbanization
Chapter 8 Food Security in the Process of Industrialization and Urbanization
Chapter 9 Agricultural Development Strategy Shift and Food Security
Chapter 10 Farmers’ Income Growth and Food Security
Part IV
Innovative Reform Force: Aligned Coordination Between Food Security and Market Reform
Chapter 11 Market as the Basis for Food Security
Chapter 12 Food Circulation System Reform
Chapter 13 Food Subsidy Reform
Chapter 14 Food Science and Technology Innovations
Chapter 15 Emphasis on Food Saving
Part V
National Regulation Force: Mutual Support Between Food Security and Macro-Control
Chapter 16 Government Control over Food Security
Chapter 17 Food Reserves for Security Purpose
Part VI
International Competition Force: Joint Enhancement Between Food Security and International Discourse
Chapter 18 Global Food Security Status
Chapter 19 Establishing Global Food and Commodity Futures Markets
Chapter 20 Contributions of the Belt and Road to Food Security
Chapter 21 Cultivating China’s International Food Competitiveness
Conclusion
References
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Jianguo Yang
Yang Jianguo is the executive director and general manager of the Training Center of China Grain Reserves, a winner of the first Xue Muqiao Award, and a researcher of China Enterprise Reform and Development Society. Having served in governmental research institutes and major state owned food companies for more than 30 years, he continues to conduct fieldwork and writes on food security issues. RICE BOWL Understanding Food Security in China
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Examines how China, through food security, improved the population’s quality of life and boosted nutritional levels.
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Explicates China’s food security issues in the face of global and internal challenges.
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Introduces the “Five Forces” model as a framework to study the country’s food security strategy.
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Examines how China, through food security, improved the population’s quality of life and boosted nutritional levels.
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Explicates China’s food security issues in the face of global and internal challenges.
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Introduces the “Five Forces” model as a framework to study the country’s food security strategy.