China's grain supply is not a problem in the short term

Introduction: Duan Yingbi, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, said in Beijing yesterday that although the food security situation in China is still not optimistic in the long run, the national food supply will not be a problem in the short term Duan Yingbi said at the first press conference of the third session of the 10th CPPCC National Committee that in the long run, China's food security situation is still not optimistic This is because, on the one hand, with the increase of population and the improvement of living standards, the demand for food consumption will become larger and larger On the other hand, it will be more and more difficult for grain production to continue in the future However, he said that from the current overall situation of grain production, sales and inventory, there will be no problem in China's grain supply in the short term Nie Zhenbang, director of the State Food Administration, also said at the meeting that China's food supply has always been guaranteed At the time of grain harvest, the state has greatly enriched the central and local reserves (mainly the provincial reserves), and the combined amount of these two reserves has exceeded the level of 18% of the social consumption of food reserves stipulated by the United Nations