Sino File by Cary Huang

As the coronavirus disrupts food supply chains, who will feed China?

China’s rulers have long seen the stable and sufficient supply of food as the most critical issue in maintaining political, social and economic stability

With Covid-19 slowing down the production and movement of foodstuffs, the memory of the great famine of 1959-1961 lingers

Cary Huang

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Published: 11:00am, 12 Apr, 2020

Updated: 11:21am, 12 Apr, 2020

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Cary Huang is a veteran China affairs columnist, having written on this topic since the early 1990s. He joined the Post in 2004, and was based in Beijing between 2005 and 2013, first as a correspondent and then as bureau chief. He was previously China editor at The Standard from 1992 until 2004.

As the coronavirus disrupts food supply chains, who will feed China?

China’s rulers have long seen the stable and sufficient supply of food as the most critical issue in maintaining political, social and economic stability With Covid-19 slowing down the production and movement of foodstuffs, the memory of the great famine of 1959-1961 lingers

China’s rulers have long seen the stable and sufficient supply of food as the most critical issue in maintaining political, social and economic stability

With Covid-19 slowing down the production and movement of foodstuffs, the memory of the great famine of 1959-1961 lingers