EXPLAINED: Why is China so worried about food security?

China has unveiled its rural “revitalization” plan for 2025, listing “ensuring the supply of grain” and overall food security as its top priority. “China’s grain supply, overall, does not surpass demand; instead, it remains in a state of borderline sufficiency,” Han Wenxiu, director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group under the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee.