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Live: Decoding China's food self-sufficiency miracle
Updated 12:59, 08-Oct-2022
Live: Decoding China's food self-sufficiency miracle

As the world's most populous nation, China has the most mouths to feed. In 2022, its population reached 1.41 billion – roughly a sixth of the world's 7.9 billion people. Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice," once told CGTN, "A tiny grain could either save a country or bring it down. The importance of food security should never be underestimated." How did China manage to feed 20 percent of the world's population with only 9 percent of the world's arable land? Why does China need food security? CGTN reporters Sun Tianyuan and Huang Yue stream live from Tailai Farm – one of the country's oldest farms in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, a region known as the country's granary. 

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Live: Decoding China's food self-sufficiency miracle
Updated 12:59, 08-Oct-2022

As the world's most populous nation, China has the most mouths to feed. In 2022, its population reached 1.41 billion – roughly a sixth of the world's 7.9 billion people. Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice," once told CGTN, "A tiny grain could either save a country or bring it down. The importance of food security should never be underestimated." How did China manage to feed 20 percent of the world's population with only 9 percent of the world's arable land? Why does China need food security? CGTN reporters Sun Tianyuan and Huang Yue stream live from Tailai Farm – one of the country's oldest farms in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, a region known as the country's granary.