A fish farmer in Ningde, Fujian province, selects fish for a customer.Hu Meidong/China Daily
As China expands its food resources and explores new sources of protein and carbohydrates, Fujian province is emerging as a valuable learning hub.
The coastal province, with limited arable land and frequent typhoons, first sought food from its rugged terrain and vast waters when President Xi Jinping served as a senior official in Fujian province from 1985 to 2002. I learned to procure.
In recent decades, Fujian has developed into an important supplier of seafood, vegetables, and various edible fungi. This success confirms the struggle to become food self-sufficient during rapid urbanization in the early 1990s.
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“After China's reform and opening-up, urbanization accelerated in Fujian, and construction work encroached on much farmland,” said Ye Xiaojian, who oversees a museum in the provincial capital, Fuzhou. Food self-sufficiency rate in the 1990s.
“Dwindling (agricultural land) and increasing urban population made it difficult to secure food supplies at that time,” he said.
The local words engraved on the museum's signage summed up Fujian's harsh agricultural conditions. “Eighty percent of the country is rolling mountains, with one large river running through Fujian Province, where minimal agricultural land can be found,” it says.
Ye added: “We often suffer from the onslaught of typhoons and floods. Therefore, generally speaking, food prices will always rise in the 1990s after a flood.” Ta.