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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews Is China's food crisis imminent? Recently, food security has been listed as the first major issue to be tackled at the CCP Economic Work Conference, the Central Rural Work Conference as well as in the published "No. 1 Central Document" on Sunday. Analysts believe that behind the emphasis on food security lies a sharp increase in food imports, signaling the imminence of the Chinese food crisis. On Jan. 19, Chinese authorities announced that the No.1 Central Document, the customary first official document of the new year, listed food security as the top priority. The improvement of the national food security system in 2014 was also stressed in the document. At the CCP Economic Work Conference which was held between Dec. 10 and 13 of last year, effectively ensuring food security was listed as the top task of six major tasks. The CCP has come up with a slogan to illustrate its goals -- "grain self-sufficiency, absolute security of food rations". Ran Bogong, University of Toledo professor Emeritus: "In the past, China had a large agriculture industry. Since food is China's first necessity, self-sufficiency and adequate amounts of food are most important, emphasis is placed on the importance of agriculture." But the CCP media has declared that "China's grain output has risen for the 10th consecutive year" and "China can achieve grain self-sufficiency". The CCP's frequent emphasis on food security has attracted the public's attention. Director of CCP Crop Cultivation Department Zeng Yande said that although grain production has risen for the 10th straight year, tight food supplies will persist with the grain demand increase, which is now at 100 million tons per year. Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Jason Wang, a Chinese national in Germany, pointed out that China's farmland continues to diminish due to a large number of land acquisitions, ecological restorations, agricultural structural adjustments as well as natural disasters, pollution and other issues. Germany-based Dr. Jason Wang, Ph.D. of Materials Science: "A significant amount of farmland was requisitioned and overexploited. There are increasingly less farmers, many heavily polluting enterprises move to rural areas from big cities and discharge a large amount of industrial wastewater without treatment." Jason Wang pointed out that not only does the waste threaten the safety of the drinking water, it enters the food chain via irrigation, resulting in a greatly diminished grain production industry and a continually dropping self-sufficiency rate. China Agricultural Bioengineering scholar Mr. Zhang: "The food problem will never be solved if soil and water pollution are not solved. To resolve soil and water pollution, the state environmental supervision and inspection departments have to inspect. However, the CCP environmental protection department hasn't done anything in the past decade. By the end of last year, an investigation by the CCP Ministry of Land and Source showed that about 3.33 million hectares (about 5,000 acres) of agricultural land are unusable due to heavy pollution. In 2011, the CCP State Council Development Research Center had predicted that Chinese grain imports would increase to 22.24 million tons in 2020, up by 416 million tons since 1997. However, China's total food imports reached over 70 million tons in 2012. Citing the estimates by the research department, Finance magazine pointed out that based on 2010 cotton, oil and grain imports, the number of China's agricultural imports is equal to the use of 700 million mu's of foreign cultivated land, or, the whole of Heilongjiang province. In October 2010, a China Food Science and Technology reporter found that not only have the CCP central granaries been mostly emptied, the state-owned granaries and the privately owned granaries in the Northeast are nearly empty. In his article, "China's Largest Catastrophe Cannot Be Avoided" the father of hybrid rice, academician Yuan Longping, said a food crisis can't be avoided and a social crisis could erupt at any time. His article revealed that China's grain self-sufficiency rate is only 80 percent and China imports more than 80 percent of its edible oil. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that drought would cause a decline in U.S. corn and soybean production. China will be heavily impacted by this because its import of this type was more than 6 million tons in 2011. China's Food and Agriculture warned that another possible food crisis will break out. Yuan Longping said cannibalism, starvation, and homelessness may be inevitable. It can occur at any time, anywhere. 《神韵》2014世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/