date:Apr 22, 2014
ng a high self-sufficiency rate.
By then, about 596 million tons of crops will be needed to feed the nation, data from the report showed. The United Nations has forecast that China's population will reach 1.4 billion by 2023.
Chinese can hold the rice bowl in our own hands in the coming decade, due to the strong government policy support and technological innovation, Xu Shiwei, director-general of the institute, said at the 2014 China Agricultural Outlook Conference in Beijing on Sunday. The t