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| 1990s || Self-sufficiency || 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> In 1995 China reaches its target of 95 per cent food self-sufficiency. {{w|Obesity}} increases tremendously during this decade.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wildman |first1=RP |last2=Gu |first2=D |last3=Muntner |first3=P |last4=Wu |first4=X |last5=Reynolds |first5=K |last6=Duan |first6=X |last7=Chen |first7=CS |last8=Huang |first8=G |last9=Bazzano |first9=LA |last10=He |first10=J. |title=Trends in overweight and obesity in Chinese adults: between 1991 and 1999-2000. |doi=10.1038/oby.2008.208 |pmid=18388899 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18388899}}</ref>
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| 21st century || || The food market further liberalizes, with only limited government regulations. In the 2010s, China becomes the largest global importer of food and beverages.
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| 2005 || Food || Production || {{w|Aquaculture}}: China reports harvesting 32.4 million {{w|tons}}, more than 10 times that of the second-ranked nation, [[w:Fishing in India|India]], which reported 2.8 million tons.<ref name="FAO Fact sheet">{{w|FAO}} Fact sheet: [http://www.fao.org/Newsroom/common/ecg/1000565/en/factsheet.pdf Aquaculture in China and Asia]</ref>
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| 2006 || Food || Infrastructure || Farmland in China totals about 130.04 million hectares, about 3.92 million less than 1978.<ref name="sdr"/>
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| 2008 || Food || {{w|International trade}} || China becomes a net importer of grains (namely {{w|sorghum}}, {{w|corn}}, distiller's dried grains with solubles, {{w|barley}}, {{w|wheat}} and {{w|rice}}).<ref name="Tubilewicz"/>
