China's grain self-sufficiency rate is less than 90%

The Economic Observer Network’s journalist Jiang Yunshi has stated that since the “11th Five-Year Plan”, the Chinese government has emphasized that the self-sufficiency ratio of grain has reached 95%, but Chen Xiwen, deputy leader and head of the office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, recently stated that in 2011 the country imported more than 1200 grains. Billions of pounds, accounting down, in fact, China's current self-sufficiency rate of food is less than 90%. It can be seen that China's food security issue is not optimistic.

Chen Xiwen said that last year China imported large quantities of staple agricultural products such as corn, wheat, vegetable oil, cotton, sugar, and pork, among which the main food crops such as corn, wheat, and soybeans exceeded 1,250 billion jin, far exceeding the country's total last year. The total grain output of Heilongjiang Province, a major grain-producing province, is 114.4 billion kilograms.

Chen Xiwen further analyzed that, including soybeans, accounting down, in fact, China's grain self-sufficiency rate is now less than 90%. The Chinese government has always emphasized that grain self-sufficiency rate should reach 95% or more. Last year, China imported more than 52.4 million tons of soybeans, imported 6.27 million tons of various vegetable oils, imported more than 3.3 million tons of cotton, more than half of domestic cotton production, and imported more than 2 million tons of sugar. Imported more than 2 million tons of pork products including more than 500,000 tons of pork, which shows that more and more Chinese agricultural products need to rely on the international market.

Chen Xiwen said that in recent years, many domestic agricultural products, especially food prices, have fluctuate frequently, and government regulation has become more and more difficult. The main reason is that the degree of foreign dependence is increasing.