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China needs no foreign help to feed itself

机译:中国不需要外国帮助养活自己

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China has a long-standing ambition to be self-sufficient in grain -rice, wheat, maize (corn) and soya beans-yet it imported some 95 million tonnes last year, about 17% of its domestic production. This raised concerns that its grain imports would rise, and push up the price of food. These fears were highlighted by Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington DC, in an article in The Washington Post in March, titled 'Can the United States feed China?' I thank Lester for his warning on food security in China, but I believe it is not a matter of whether China can feed itself. It is a matter of whether the Chinese people will choose to do so. First, some history. Chinas grain production quadrupled from 1950 to 2010, and last year saw the largest ever harvest. Much of the grain that China imported last year was not for consumption, but for storage in case of crises. In fact, for the past 60 years, China has, with just 7-8% of the globes agricultural land, fed about 22% of the worlds population.
机译:中国一直致力于实现粮食,大米,小麦,玉米(大豆)和大豆的自给自足,但它去年进口了约9500万吨,约占其国内产量的17%。这引起了人们对其谷物进口量将上升并推高食品价格的担忧。华盛顿特区地球政策研究所的莱斯特·布朗(Lester Brown)在3月《华盛顿邮报》上的一篇文章中强调了这些担忧,题为“美国能养活中国吗?”我感谢莱斯特(Lester)对中国粮食安全的警告,但我相信中国能否自给自足不是问题。这取决于中国人民是否会选择这样做。首先,一些历史。从1950年到2010年,中国的谷物产量翻了两番,去年是有史以来最大的收成。去年中国进口的大部分谷物不是用于消费,而是用于危机存储。实际上,在过去的60年中,中国仅占全球7-8%的农业用地,就满足了世界22%的人口需求。

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    《Nature》 |2011年第7349期|p.7|共1页
  • 作者

    Peng Gong;

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    Center for Earth System Science at Tsinghua University, China, and the Department of Environmental Science,Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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