Study On Chinese Cered Food Security

The connotation of food security has been continuously enriched. In November, 1974, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the united Nations defined it as ensuring that anyone can get enough foods that she or he needs to be alive and maintain her or his health at any time In April, 1983, the Food Security Committee of FAO passed a new concept of food security, ensuring that all human can both buy and afford to buy the basic foods that they need, In November,1996, the concept of food security in the Rome Declaration was described as that only can all human realize the food security at any time when they can obtain enough, safe, and nutritious foods materially and economically to satisfy their positive and healthful diet requirements and get their favourite foods. In September,2001, the concept of food sustainable security was put forward, It said,"The stable increase of production capacity of cereal grains, which are neither polluted nor harmful to environment, build up people's health, and prolong human lives, is permanent food security." Chinese Cereal Food Security has its special connotation. It contains the following contents:Carefully protect peasants' enthusiasm of grain production.Meet all kinds of consumers' ever-increasing requirements for foods.The cereal grains and other foods whose quality tallies with the hygienic quality standards must be produced and supplied to ensure residents' health.Keep our feet on the self-supporting of cereal grains.Keepcoordinated development of cereal production, environment, and natural resources.Adapt us to the requirements of economy and food globalisation to positively make use of two kinds of resources and two markets. In order to comprehend the connotation of food security, we must clarify some incorrect cognition. One wrong cognition is that the more foods we have, the safer we are; The second one is that the more cereal grains we store, the securer we are; Thirdly, we are safe and carefree as long as our country has stored cereal grains; Fourthly, it will do as long as we can ensure the food security in quantity. Our country's food security concept should be that the nation has a sustainable increasing capacity to ensure the people's ever-increasing requirements for grain to be met .In special situations, our nation can ensure the military provisions and civilian uses to maintain the social stability and our country's security. The importance of cereal security. The cereal security is a basic condition for the development of our country's economy, and it is also a significant assurance of continuous propelling our country's reform. China has realized its great adjustment of the economy strategies and its great transition of the development centre. However, the new contradictions have emerged in the forms of grain supply and demand in recent years. Doctor Lester R. Brown, a chief observer from World Observation Institute in America, thinks that with the rapid increase of Chinese economy, the contradictions between the increasing requirements for foods and the worsened food supply are becoming increasingly acute, and they will undoubtedly lead to a great deficit of cereal grains in the last century. In his opinions, China has abundant foreign exchange to import the foods it needs, but it will be destined to decrease its technology imports. If china depended on food imports, any country in the world could not supply such a large quantity of foods. Therefore, if food crisis happened in china, the miracle of Chinese economic reform would come to premature end. However, Hu Yuemin, a Chinese scholar, rejects Brown's points. Comprehensively analysing the aspects of grain supply and demand, he thinks that Chinese will absolutely support themselves.Present situations of grain supply and demand in China. In 1998,the whole country's sowing area of cereal crops was 1.706 billion mu, the cereal yield was 512.3 billion kilograms, it made the highest record in Chinese history. Nevertheless, our country's sowi...