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| || || "In 1949 population growth and food demands alongside an inadequate food supply created a crisis. In response China implemented a series of policies to improve living standards. In agriculture the government eliminated the private land ownership and undertook a major land redistribution in rural areas, followed later by agricultural collectivization."<ref name="China in the period"/> "The price system for major foods has been controlled by the government since the 1950s."<ref name="and nutritional status"/> The policy of state monopoly for purchasing and marketing grain helped the Chinese people to survive serious natural disasters in the early 1960s."<ref name="and nutritional status"/> In terms of calorie intake, food consumption in Chinese increases steadily since the early 1970s.<ref name="Tubilewicz"/> ". Since the late 70's and early 80’s, many Chinese medical schools have offered Chinese nutrition courses. Some have even set up Nutrition Departments. Thousands of professional Chinese nutritionists provide services in hospitals, factories, schools, and restaurants. At the same time, many new Chinese food supplements and nutrition products have flooded into the market."<ref name="The History Of Chinese Nutrition"/> "Since the 1980s, the nutrition transition in China has been rapidly occurring as the political and economic climates evolve."<ref name="Nutrition Transition">{{cite web |title=Nutrition Transition in Chinese Communities |url=https://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/110310p60.shtml |website=todaysdietitian.com |accessdate=11 September 2019}}</ref> Vegetable consumption declines substantially during the 1980s.<ref name="Food and Agriculture"/>
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| 1949–1977 || Period of central planning || {{w|Great Leap Forward}}. {{w|Great Chinese Famine}}.|-| 1978–1984 || {{w|Socialist market economy}} || {{w|Deng Xiaoping}} institutes significant economic reforms and China transitions to a {{w|socialist market economy}}. Agriculture is decollectivized. |-| || || " Nutritional improvement was uneven, including increased undernutrition in the 1959–1962 period and a remarkable rebound and continued improvement thereafter."<ref name="China in the period"/>
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| 1955 || || || The State Council formulates special policies on grain processing and institutes a rationing system. According to a quota determined by age, occupation and intensity of labour by the urban individual, coupons for grain are provided each month to all urban households.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1955 || Food || Consumption || Per capita urban pork consumption is reported at 9.7 kilograms per year.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1958 || || || The People's Commune system starts being practised in rural China. Under this system, peasants within a township are organized into a commune consisting of production brigades which were divided into teams. Land, livestock and other production materials were owned collectively, and production team members usually worked together or in groups assigned by a leader. Peasants accumulated work points and were paid in food and perhaps small amounts of cash. This system seriously dampened their enthusiasm and the rural economy declined."<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1958–1961 || Food || Consumption || Per capita urban pork consumption falls to only 1.7 kilos during the {{w|Freat Leap Forward}} period.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1959–1961 || Nutrition || Crisis || {{w|Great Chinese Famine}}
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| 1978 || || || The People's Commune system is replaced by a rural household production responsibility system. This system allows each rural household to use a piece of land and provide grain to the local government at the state-ordered rate according to the household's contract. The household can dispose of remaining produce as it wishes. This new system is considered to place agricultural development on a more positive track.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1978–1989 || Food || Production || Per capita agricultural production rises from about 316kg to 367 in the period.<ref name="Shujie"/>
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| 1979 || Food || Policy || The Chinese Government starts implementing major land, social, and economic reforms. The country’s economy and agricultural productivity would change greatly after this time.<ref name="China in the period"/>
| 1979 || Food || Production || {{w|Forestry}}, {{w|animal husbandry}}, {{w|fishery}} and associated production account for 32.2 percent of the total value of agricultural output.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1979–1983 || Food || Import {{w|International trade}} ||| The average annual amount of grain imported is 14 million tons.<ref name="Shujie"/>
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| 1980–1996 || Food || Consumption || Poultry per capita at-home consumption triples from 0.76 to 2.44 kilos in the period, while its share in total meat consumption doubles, from 7.2 percent to 14.2 percent. Egg output grows from 2.6 million tons to 19.5 million, while per capita at-home consumption increases from 2.04 kilos to 5.03 kilos. Beef's share of total meat consumption rises from 2.5 percent to 5 percent.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1980–1996 || Food || Production || Aquatic product output rises from 4.5 million tons to 32.9 million, accounting for the most rapid growth among all animal protein products, and making China the world's largest producer. Beef production rises sixfold in the same period, however, beef still accounts for only a small share of the national total meat consumption.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1980 || Nutrition || || Malnutrition is reported at a 30% of the population.<ref name="reer"/>
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| 1985–1988 || Food || Production || The Chinese population grows by 3.3 per cent in the period, although the output of {{w|rice}}, {{w|wheat}} and {{w|corn}} declines by 4 per cent, 0.6 per cent and 0.6 per cent, respectively.<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
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| 1985–1991 || Food || Consumption || Per capita urban pork consumption increases from 16.8 kilograms to 20.6. Per capita rural pork consumption rises from 10.3 kilograms to 11.3.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1985–1996 || Nutrition || Intake || Per capita total meat consumption ({{w|pork}}, {{w|beef}}, {{w|mutton}}, {{w|poultry}}, and {{w|fish}} products) increases 15 percent for urban households and 33 percent for rural households.<ref name="China Situation">{{cite book |title=China Situation and Outlook Series 1998 |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=OwjRYVtiKmMC&pg=PA45&dq=food+production+china+%22in+1990..2000%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2-s7CyIvmAhWFILkGHbvoBxYQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=food%20production%20china%20%22in%201990..2000%22&f=false}}</ref>
| 1987 || Food || Policy || The Chinese government implements a strategy for agricultural development known as "promoting agriculture by sciences and technology". A large number of scientists are sent to the countryside to offer technical assistance in the use of advanced methods for production of {{w|grain}}, {{w|cotton}}, {{w|edible oil}}, {{w|livestock}} and {{w|fish}}. The state increases the utilization of chemical fertilizer, agricultural machinery and irrigation, trains agricultural technicians and popularizes advanced techniques. It is estimated that 30 to 40 percent of the total increase in agricultural production is attributable to science and technology.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1987 || Food || {{w|International trade}} || Total grain net imports amount to 13 million tons in the year. Although this figure would subsequently decline, China would remain a net importer of cereals even after a strong recovery of grain production between 1989 and 1991.<ref name="Shujie"/>
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| 1988 || Food || Policy || A national project to promote the production of non-staple food and secure the market supply (known informally as the "Food-Basket Project") is proposed by the {{w|Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China}} and approved by the [[w:State Council of the People's Republic of China|State Council]]. The project is implemented nationwide and remarkable improvements in production, marketing and consumption of non-staple foods would be made.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1988 || Food || Financial || Because of escalating production costs, the purchasing price of farm and farm-related products is raised systematically so that the purchasing price index rises by 14.5 percent by this year.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1988 || Food || Policy || Urban residents receive lump subsidies in lieu of the subsidies on products to help them purchase animal proteins at open market prices.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1990 || Food || Production || The total amounts of {{w|meat}}, {{w|egg}}s, {{w|milk}} and {{w|fish}} produced are 28.57, 7.94, 4.75 and 12.37 million tons, respectively. These outputs represent increases of 48,3 percent, 48.6 percent, 64,2 percent and 75,5 percent, respectively, over 1985 production. The increases allow a substantial improvement in the dietary patterns of urban and rural people. The annual per caput supply of meat, eggs and aquatic products is 13 kg higher in 1990 than in 1984.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1990 || Food || Policy || The State Council sets up a national specific grain reserve to improve the system gradually at the national, provincial, municipal and autonomous-region levels. All the surplus grain (that remaining after the contracted purchase) produced by the farmers that is not absorbed by the market is purchased. A protective minimum price is established for the benefit of the peasants. A leading group is responsible for the overall planning and managing of national specific grain reserve matters, and the Bureau of the Grain Reserve is initiated for national grain management. This system allows the state to purchase grain through the specific reserve as well as contracting and solves the peasants' problem of selling surplus grain after a bumper harvest. Because of this specific grain reserve, the supply of staples would be basically guaranteed for areas of the country that were flooded in 1991.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1990 || Food || Consumption || Meat consumption starts declining in rural areas. This is followed by an increased consumption of fish and shrimp products.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1990–2000 || Food || Production || Vegetable production in China increases from 67 to 141 kcals/capita/day in the period.<ref name="Food and Agriculture"/>
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| 1991 || Food || Policy || The price of grain and edible oil on ration is readjusted by a large margin for the first time since the mid-1960s. The price of grain is raised by 70 percent, and the price of edible oil almost doubles.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1991 || Food || Consumption || Meat consumption by urban households starts declining, while fish consumption starts increasing steadily.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1991–1995 || Food || Cost || China suffers from inflation and rapid price increases for food products. Consumer price index for red meat, poultry and eggs increases more than 40 percent in 1994 and more than 25 % in 1995.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1991–1997 || Nutrition || Intake || Mean intakes of energy decline from 101.8 percent of the Chinese recommended daily allowance to 95.2 percent, with means below the RDA in rural (92 percent) but not urban (102.7 percent) residents. In the same period, mean intakes of dietary fats increase from 21.8 to 27.7 percent of energy. Mean intakes of animal foods (meats and poultry, fish and eggs) increase by about 25 percent, from 105.6 to 131.6 g/day.<ref name="Food and Agriculture"/>
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| 1992 || Nutrition || Intake || Daily energy intake of urban residents amount to 2,395 kilocalories per reference person, which is 101 kilocalories higher than that of the rural population.<ref name="China's Retreat from">{{cite book |last1=Riskin |first1=Carl |last2=Renwei |first2=Zhao |last3=Shih |first3=Li |title=China's Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=l2ilDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA244&dq=nutrition+in+china+%22in+1990..1999%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOgJeWgcrlAhW3DrkGHXGqAT0Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=nutrition%20in%20china%20%22in%201990..1999%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1992–1996 || Food || Consumption || Per capita urban pork consumption falls from 19.7 kilograms to 18.9, whereas per capita rural pork consumption rises from 11 kilograms to 12.2.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1992–1997 || Food || Production || {{w|Grain}} production rises from 442 million tons to 493 million.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1995 || Food || Policy || The central government delegates the primary responsibility of maintaining the regional balance of food supply, demand and reserves to provincial governors.<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
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| 1995 || Food || Consumption || Urban households allocate about a half of their living expenditure to food, 23 percent of which is spent on red meat and poultry, while 7 percent is spent on aquatic products.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1995 || Food || Literature || United States environmental analyst {{w|Lester R. Brown}} publishes book ''Who Will Feed China?''. Brown announces that if China can not feed its population, its food problem would potentially result in a global starvation.<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
| 1995 || Food || Production || China reaches its target of 95 per cent food self-sufficiency.<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
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| 1995 || Food || {{w|International trade}} || Chinese exports account for more than 11% of the world aquatic market.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1995 || Nutrition || {{w|Obesity}} || A policy asks schools to emphasize physical education as well as classroom learning, to promote higher levels of activity and help reduce early obesity.<ref name="Food and Agriculture"/>
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| 1995–1999 || Food || {{w|International trade}} || Imports of French fries from the {{w|United States}} increases tenfold in the period.<ref name="Food and Agriculture"/>
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| 1996 || Food || Infrastructure || China has roughly 700 dairy processing plants.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 2010 || Food || Production || Based on the annual grain output, food consumption per capita reaches 400 kg in the year.<ref name="Shoemaker"/>
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| 2010–2013 || Nutrition || || The national prevalence of under-five overweight increases from 6.6% to 9.1%.<ref>{{cite web |title=Malnutrition burden |url=https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profiles/asia/eastern-asia/china/ |website=globalnutritionreport.org |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2011 || Nutrition || || By this time, the average Chinese per capita daily calorie consumption is higher than that of {{w|Thailand}}, {{w|Vietnam}}, {{w|Malaysia}}, {{w|Indonesia}}, and the {{w|Philippines}}. Also, China's levels of plant-based calorie consumption are marginally lower than those in the {{w|United States}}, but animal-based calorie consumption still trails by 30%.<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
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| 2012 || Food || {{w|International trade}} || China becomes the largest global importer of food and beverages.<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
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| 2013 || Food || Consumption || By this time, the average Chinese person consumes approximately 57kg of meat per year, of which 71 per cent is pork.<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
