Like any Communist, Marxist regime, China has terrible food shortages and then gluts, because agriculture does not lend itself to centralized government planning, price controls and the lack of incentive for farmers to produce.
Why grow any more food than what your family will eat? If there is no profit motive for doing so, production goes down and the government winds up with public starvation and food shortages, which it frequently covers by importing food from the United States and other free enterprise countries where they grow a surplus--in act, as much as they can sell.
Just as the marxist regime in China has shut down factories to try and get a handle on some of the worst air pollution in the world, and put up millions of board feet of plywood masks with pastoral scenes painted on them to cover up the signs of decay and poverty--it has had a record year importing food, so shortages would be masked.
You won't read any of this in the mass media, who want the United States to become a socialist state like China. But agriculture has serious problems in China, all the way from seed and fertilizer availability on the front end, a lazy and unmotivated workforce in the middle, to market and distribution problems on the back end. A nation with the land area and labor force China has, should be producing food surpluses with heavy exports overseas.
Instead, it is hand-to-mouth, day-to-day for a lot of Chinese citizens on getting adequate food to eat, much less a choice to select what they'd like to eat.
Saving face is the number one goal in most Asian nations, and even more so in China. As you watch the nonstop fawning, adoring press coverage of the Olympics, take it with a grain of salt.
Things in China are not a rosy as the mass media is trying hard to make you believe.
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