China enacts first food security law to ensure ‘absolute self-sufficiency’ in staple grains

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The law provides a legal framework for existing guidance by the Communist Party for local governments and the agricultural industry to raise food production, although it did not give details on how the law will be implemented read more China’s first food security law aimed at achieving “absolute self-sufficiency” in staple grains came into effect on Saturday, reinforcing efforts by the world’s biggest agriculture importer to lower its reliance on overseas purchases. The law provides a legal framework for existing guidance by the Communist Party for local governments and the agricultural industry to raise food production, although it did not...