date:May 22, 2014
Chinese agricultural authorities on Wednesday fended off negative remarks made by a policy institute president over food security, saying China is able to feed itself.
China poses no threat to world food security but will contribute quite a lot instead, said Bi Meijia, chief economist and spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture. We can carry our rice bowls quite safely.
The Chinese official's comments came almost three months after Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, ra