Research on National Food Security Strategy of China

Author: Liu Xiaomei
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Publishing Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book attempts to conduct a comprehensive and systematic study of China's food security strategy. Through a comprehensive evaluation of the current state of China's food security, it analyzes and forecasts the trends of food supply and demand in China for the longer term. Combining China's basic national conditions and the reality of its WTO membership, it proposes goals and conceptual models for China's food security strategy in the new century and explores measures and approaches for implementing this strategy. The book is divided into eight chapters, with the main content of each chapter as follows:
Chapter 1 studies the relevant concepts of food security and the evaluation indicators of food security. Based on a scientific definition of the concept of food and the concept of food security, it introduces in detail the emergence and evolution of the concept of food security, elaborates on the content of food security at different levels and the different understandings of food security in the economic community, and emphasizes that national food security is the foundation and guarantee for food security at all levels, as well as an important component of national economic security and even the overall national security.
Chapter 2 reviews and evaluates the history and current state of China's food security. Historically, China has been a country with a relatively low level of food security. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening-up, the level of food security in China has improved significantly. The focus of this chapter is to use the evaluation method constructed in Chapter 1 to analyze each indicator of China's current food security and, based on this, calculate the food security coefficients of major food-producing and consuming countries in the world during the same period. Through historical and international comparisons, it demonstrates that China has achieved a high level of food security at the current stage.
Chapter 3 studies the trends of China's food supply and demand in the longer term. China's food demand is mainly determined by two factors: direct demand and indirect demand. The change in direct food demand is primarily determined by population growth.
Chapter 4 studies the construction of China's food security strategy model, which is the core part of the book. This chapter emphasizes the relationship between food security strategy and sustainable development strategy, opening-up strategy, and increasing farmers' income. Food security is a component of national economic security and even the overall national security. Therefore, it is not acceptable to ignore other strategic and policy goals of the nation in the process of development just for the sake of food security. It must be coordinated and unified with these strategic and policy goals to seek the long-term interests of the nation.
Chapter 5 studies China's comprehensive food production capacity. The foundation of a country's food security lies in the safety of its comprehensive food production capacity. Therefore, the protection and reserve of food production capacity are the core of realizing the food security strategy in the future.
Chapter 6 studies the role of agricultural policies in food security.
Chapter 7 studies the food reserve regulation system. This chapter reviews the establishment, development, and existing problems of China's current special food reserve system, clarifying that the root of the problems in the current food system lies in excessive reserve scale and irrational operation mechanisms. The chapter also proposes measures to introduce market mechanisms and improve the storage and sales systems of food reserves to address the issue of irrational reserve operation mechanisms.
Chapter 8 studies measures to use the international food market to ensure food security. First, by analyzing and comparing the different food development strategies adopted by the Netherlands and Japan, it demonstrates the feasibility of China fully utilizing its agricultural comparative advantages and moderately importing food to improve the efficiency of national food security.