Sure, the geopolitical rivalry with the United States is almost certainly part of what is motivating China; it wants to ...

China is more tightly controlling how farmland can be used in an attempt to bolster food security – but it risks undoing the progress made in alleviating rural poverty. Given questions about the ...

Various leaders including the prime ministers of Malaysia, Slovakia, and Serbia, are also expected to attend, according to the Chinese foreign ministry. Over the past few years, the food and ...

Upcoming China International Import Expo will highlight need to strike a balance with trading partners as appetite of world’s biggest food consumer hits record highs.

In a research facility in the northwest of Beijing, molecular biologist Li Jieping and his team harvest a cluster of seven ...

China, the world's biggest crop producer and consumer, has doubled down on food security amid climate change, turbulence in the global market and growing tensions with the United States ...

He added that China had to "maintain a sense of crisis about food security". It also comes after weeks of mass flooding across southern China which left farms wrecked and ruined tons of produce.

Now, with COVID-19 posing a threat to food security, he’s trying again. China is almost completely self-sufficient when it comes to staples such as rice, wheat and corn, but it relies heavily on ...

Liu Ligang, a farmer from Weixian county in the northern Chinese province of Hebei, was prepared to give up growing crops in 2018, just three years after he began leasing 160 mu (10.7 hectares ...

BEIJING, Oct 25 (Reuters) - China on Friday launched a five-year ... in farm machinery and seed technology in its quest for food security. China's grain output is set to exceed a record 700 ...

On the geopolitical front, China's emphasis on dialogue and diplomacy aligns with its broader vision of a multilateral world ...