Reforming support policies to improve Chinese nutrition and diet

Zhao, Qiran; Zhang, Yumei; Fan, Shenggen; Chen, Kevin Z.; Yi, Cui; and Zhang, Ying. 2022. Evolution of agricultural support policies. In China and global food policy report 2022: Reforming agricultural support policy for transforming agrifood systems. Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University (AGFEP); China Academy for Rural Development, Zhejiang University (CARD); Centre for International Food and Agricultural Economics, Nanjing Agricultural University (CIFAE); Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IAED); International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Chapter 2, Pp. 14-31. http://agfep.cau.edu.cn/module/download/downfile.jsp?classid=0&filename=6dbb930c64de42458dc72edba23fbcdf.pdf

On March 6, 2022, at the Fifth Session of the Thirteenth National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized that China needs to improve the lives and livelihoods of its people and to ensure an adequate food supply by providing enough meat, vegetables, fruit, and aquatic products for healthy diets. Understanding the changing trends of people’s dietary structure and encouraging people to eat more healthily is central to establishing the “Big Food” concept. The country should actively promote reform of the agricultural supply side in order to achieve a balance between the supply of, and demand for, various types of food and to better meet the increasingly diversified food consumption needs of the people.