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Timeline of food and nutrition in China

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| 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. Since the 1980s, the nutrition transition in China rapidly occurs as the political and economic climates evolve. The buying power per children increases significantly as the result of the {{w|one-child policy}}, whereby the only child is constantly lavished with care by his or her parents and grandparents.<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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| 1990s || || Over the course of the decade, there is a remarkable fall in the national prevalence of child undernutrition in the country.<ref name="Bredenkamp">{{cite book |last1=Bredenkamp |first1=Caryn |title=Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=mEwvbyT4Pz4C&pg=PA2&dq=nutrition+china+%221990s%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3opjgl7TmAhVmLLkGHVC8DAAQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=nutrition%20china%20%221990s%22&f=false}}</ref> " 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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