Pandemic has brought an increased focus on food security for Beijing
Two grandmothers with their granddaughter trade vegetables at a market on the outskirts of Shanghai, China on June 3 2021. Picture: REUTERS/ALY SONG
In response, the Economic Daily, a Communist Party-backed newspaper, told netizens not to have “too much of an overactive imagination” and that the directive’s purpose was to make sure citizens were not caught off guard if there was a lockdown in their area. But this year those efforts have become more urgent after extreme weather in early October destroyed crops in Shandong — the country’s biggest vegetable growing region — and as outbreaks of Covid-19 cases stretching from the northwest to the northeast of the country threaten to disrupt food supplies.
The pandemic has brought an increased focus on food security for Beijing. The government is drafting a food security law and has also outlined new efforts to curb food waste after making solving the problem a priority last year.
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