Recently, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping issued a call to “stop food waste,” and the food shortage problem is stirring the nerves of the Chinese people. Shanghai issued a notice on the 16th to establish a food waste reporting mechanism, which is quite like the Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution. What’s even more amazing is that the Chinese National People’s Congress will launch a legislative study on food waste, which will be “criminalized.” However, previous famines have confirmed that the “tip of the tongue” cannot prevent the occurrence of famines, and the CCP has found the wrong direction. How serious is China’s food security problem? He Qinglian, an economist in the United States, pointed out that at least 250 million people in China are in a food shortage. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on the 18th that the chief accountant of COFCO was investigated for serious violations of discipline and law.
In the past two decades, many Chinese have made a lot of money by investing in real estate, but the dream of Chinese homeowners is about to die.
It has become a trend for global supply chains to move out of China. Following Japan, President Trump said on the 17th that it would provide tax credits for companies that bring Chinese jobs back to the United States. The latest data show that China’s exports accounted for the world’s share of large-scale decline in 2019. With tensions between Britain and China, Japan has aggressively entered the British nuclear power market.
The CCP secretly changed the concept! At least 250 million people in China are under a food shortage
According to a report from Xinhuanet on April 5 this year, China’s grain self-sufficiency rate remained above 95%. On August 7, Han Changfu, Minister of Agriculture of the Communist Party of China, wrote in the People’s Daily that China’s self-sufficiency rate for rice and wheat exceeded 100%. But what is China’s food self-sufficiency rate? Not mentioned.
The world food security standard set by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is a self-sufficiency rate of 90%, which includes all major types of grains, soybeans, and corn.
So what needs to be distinguished here is that the self-sufficiency rate of grains claimed by the CCP exceeds 95%, and the food security standard of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is 90%, which are two different things.
According to He Qinglian, an American scholar on China, the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China in December 2018 showed that China’s total grain output in 2018 was 1315.8 billion jin, a decrease of 7.4 billion jin or 0.6% from 2017. China’s food self-sufficiency rate has dropped to about 82.3%. The food gap is 17.7%, and China has not met the food security standards set by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
If measured by the world’s food security standards, China’s food gap is the food needed by 252 million people. The countries and regions with more than 200 million people in the world are China, India, the European Union, the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil.
According to the data of the white paper “Food Security in China” in 2019, as of the end of 2017, China’s agricultural foreign investment stock was 17.33 billion US dollars, 851 companies were established overseas, distributed in 100 countries (regions) on six continents, and 134,000 foreign employees were employed. people.
Apollo commentator Yang Xu said that he has not yet seen the amount of grain imported into China by China through overseas investment, but it is certain that the amount of imported grain is considerable.
According to data from the Agricultural Trade Promotion Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on February 17, 2020, China’s agricultural imports were US$150.97 billion in 2019, an increase of 10.0%, of which 17.918 million tons of cereals were imported.
Apollo commentator Yang Xu said that many major grain-producing provinces across the country suffered floods this year, coupled with the fact that the CCP has antagonized the world’s major agricultural exporting countries, such as the United States, Canada, and Australia. The superposition of these two factors has caused China’s The food issue is imminent.
In response to Xi’s “prohibition of waste” reporting mechanism, the Red Guards reappeared in Shanghai?
In response to Xi Jinping’s call, the Shanghai Committee for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization issued a notice on Sunday (16th), stating that it will vigorously rectify the “tip of the tongue” with rigid system constraints, strict system implementation, strong supervision and inspection, and severe punishment mechanisms. Waste”.
Specifically, it is to establish a set of reporting and complaint mechanisms, focusing on strengthening the supervision of business banquets, weddings and funerals, celebrities and other food wastes.
Through the “media, people’s congress deputies, CPPCC members and other social forces to carry out supervision, promptly persuade and stop the unhealthy trends such as comparisons and extravagance, extravagance and waste, etc., if the person accused is determined not to change, they will be criticized and exposed.”
Scholar Wu Zuolai believes that cherishing food and eliminating waste is a virtue and a good thing, but it has changed in the hands of the current regime.
Wu Zuolai told Radio Free Asia: “Xi Jinping was born in the Cultural Revolution and has a Red Guard background. He unknowingly moved all these things out of the Cultural Revolution’s movement, command and supervision!”
Wu Zuolai: “At that time, the Red Guards were mostly caused by civil behavior or political superstition. Now this method is different from the Cultural Revolution. Public power directly suppresses normal civil behavior. Ordering more dishes does not constitute a crime. How do you expose it? What? What about after exposure? How to punish? Many places are comparing, really like the Great Leap Forward in 57 and 58 years.
The Legislative Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Congress confirmed that it will soon launch a legislative study on the prevention of food waste. According to external analysis, once the legislation is “criminalized”, those who seriously waste food will be reprimanded or subject to administrative detention at any time.
Picture: On August 13, 2020, a staff member puts a food saving poster on the table of a restaurant in Handan, Hebei.
However, many analysts believe that in order to ensure food security, the Chinese authorities are looking for the wrong direction in mobilizing the whole people to save food.
The various famines that occurred in Chinese and foreign history were not caused by natural disasters or by some crazy behavior of human beings, but not once were caused by the people’s squandering of food. The “tip of the tongue” cannot prevent the occurrence of famine.
The direct cause of the great famine in 1960 was Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, which drove rural labor to make steel, so that he could surpass Britain and the United States to become the leader of the socialist camp. As a result, the crops were rotted in the fields and no one harvested them, causing serious crop failures.
At the same time, the CCP used a large amount of money and food for foreign aid, which put the people suffering from food shortages into a final desperate situation.
The Voice of America reported that China today seems to be repeating the history of 60 years ago. The CCP likes to be ostentatious in China. A Hangzhou G20 summit cost 160 billion yuan (some say 300 billion yuan); a military parade in 2019 used 32.2 billion taxpayers’ money. After Xi Jinping came to power, hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars was spent in aid to African countries.
Picture: Luo Jiazhu, Chief Accountant of COFCO
The first blood of the food crisis? Chief accountant of COFCO was investigated
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on the 18th that Luo Jiazhan, a member of the party group and chief accountant of COFCO, was investigated for serious violations of discipline and law. Luo Jiazhen was the first person from the relevant department to be investigated after the food crisis emerged.
The world has changed! Global supply chain, Chinese manufacturing accounted for a decline
Affected by the Sino-US trade war, changes in corporate governance needs, and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), China’s export share in the world has declined in 2019, and the global supply chain is changing!
According to data from the International Trade Law Firm and Silk Road partner companies, in 2019, China’s exports of 1,200 products accounted for 22% of global exports, a decrease of 3 percentage points from the previous year; the global share of consumer goods in China was also A drop of 4 percentage points to 42%.
According to data from Silk Road, in 2019, the proportion of China’s computer and tablet computer exports to global exports fell by 4% to 45%; the proportion of mobile phone exports to the world also fell 3% to 54%.
The fragile economy sounds the alarm, the dream of Chinese homeowners is shattered
In the past two decades, China’s real estate market has developed rapidly. Many people have used bank loans and borrowed money from relatives and friends to invest in real estate. Many people earn income through rising house prices and renting.PotsIt’s full, but this good day is coming to an end.
Reuters reported that a white-collar worker in Beijing, Ms. Li, believes that she has entered the ranks of the property-owning class: buying two units and then renting them out. But now the tenants have left the area after losing their jobs, and rents have fallen sharply.
Ms. Li declined to reveal her full name. She said that from February to May, she had to cut the rent of a house by almost half to seek rent. At the same time, her salary was also reduced by 25 due to the reduction of expenses during the period of the boss’s fight against the epidemic %.
She said, “I have to pay my rent in Beijing, as well as a monthly mortgage for two houses.”
According to real estate data provider Zhuge’s housing search data, rents in China’s 20 major cities in July fell by 2.33% from the same period last year, a four-month decline.
Even the demand for short-term accommodation has declined, leaving landlords with one less choice. According to statistics from AirDNA, an analysis agency that tracks bookings for Airbnb and Vrbo, the number of homes booked for at least one night in China in June fell 29% year-on-year.
Yuan Chengjian, vice president of Zhuge looking for real estate, said that “two types of groups…have the heaviest losses.” “One type is long-term leasing companies… the other type is investors who purchase real estate through high-leverage financing because they want Use rent to repay part of the mortgage.”
Luo Shuzhen, 50, has 80 rooms to sublet in two buildings in Dongguan. She said the number of tenants has dropped by 30% this year. She has now postponed the renovation plan of an apartment she bought last year.
Ms. Li also said that the time to seek help to protect the dream of property has arrived. “I even asked my father for help, and I am almost 30 years old!”
Trump promised 10 million jobs…
Trump said at a campaign rally in Mankato, Minnesota on Monday (August 17), “We will provide tax credits for companies that bring Chinese jobs back to the United States, and impose tariffs on countries that cause jobs to leave the United States. “.
Picture: U.S. President Trump
Trump said that if he is re-elected in November, his government will launch a new round of tax cuts and help the United States get 10 million jobs within 10 months.
Britain-China relations are strained, and Japan aggressively enters the British nuclear power market
The Agence France-Presse report stated that Hitachi’s Horizon Nuclear subsidiary stated that it is “continuing to engage with the British government and other agencies to ensure appropriate conditions to support the restart of the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant project”. This comes at a time when China and Britain have become nervous due to the Huawei issue. The project’s target production capacity is close to three gigawatts, which accounts for approximately 6% of the UK’s electricity demand.
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