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Timeline of food and nutrition in China

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| 1990 || || || The grain output is reported at 446.2 million tons, or 393.1 kg per capita.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1990 || Food || Policy || "In 1990, the The State Council set sets up a national specific grain reserve to improve the system gradually at the national, provincial, municipal and autonomous-region levels. All the farmers' 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 (People's Daily, 1991). A leading group is responsible for the overall planning and managing of national specific grain reserve matters, and the Bureau of the Grain Reserve was 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 (People's Dally, 1991). Because of this specific grain reserve, the supply of staples was would be basically guaranteed for areas of China the country that were flooded in 1991."<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1990–2000 || Food || Production || Vegetable production in China increase increases from 67 to 141 kcals/capita/day in the period.<ref name="Food and Agriculture"/>
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| 1991 || || || The National Program for Ten-Year Planning of the National Economy and Social Development and the Eighth Five-Year Plan are issued by the Chinese Government. These point to goals for the year 2000: "Based on the increase of income of the inhabitants, the food consumption of urban and rural people will be further raised in both quality and quantity, and the consumption of meat, eggs, milk, aquatic products and fruits will rise to some extent..." Nutritional status is officially incorporated into the national economic and social development plan.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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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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| 1991–1997 || 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 || Food || Consumption || Cereal consumption increases to 645.9 grams per day, of which 15.9% are coarse grains (e.g., corn, millet, oatmeal), down from 50.4% in 1978 and 70.0% in 1952.<ref name="China in the period"/> "The findings from the 28 provinces surveyed in 1992 showed that the average daily per capita energy intake varied from 1913 kcal in Hainan to 2720 kcal in Anhui."<ref name="fao.org"/>
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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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| 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 || || 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 || || Chinese exports account for more than 11% of the world aquatic market.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1995 || || || 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"/>
| 1995–1999 || Food || || 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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| 1997 || Nutrition || Intake || It is reported that more than 50 percent of adults living in all urbanized areas have high-fat diets.<ref name="Food and Agriculture"/>
| 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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| 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 || || 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"/>
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| 2013 || Food || || China uses 364kg of fertilizer per hectare of arable land, higher than other major agricultural countries, including {{w|India}}(158kg/ha), the {{w|European Union}} (156kg/ha), {{w|Brazil}} (175kg/ha), the {{w|United States}} (132kg/ha), {{w|Canada}} (88kg/ha), {{w|Australia}} (51kg/ha) and {{w|Argentina}} (36kg(ha).<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
| 2014 || Food || Production || Over 300 chinese farming enterprises have investments across 46 different countries.<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
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| 2014 || Nutrition || || Malnutrition is reported at less than 12% of the population.<ref name="reer">{{cite web|url=https://www.economist.com/china/2014/06/13/the-hungry-and-forgotten|title=The hungry and forgotten|publisher=[[The Economist]]|date=13 June 2014|accessdate=3 March 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || Food || Production || Based on the annual grain output, food consumption per capita reaches 450 kg in the year.<ref name="Shoemaker"/>
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