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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>
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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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| 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"/>
