China faces a corn-supply shortfall that could put it at the mercy of imports, and this flies in the face of Beijing’s efforts to reduce reliance on external sources.
The number - amounting to 13% of China's total area - is higher than the state target, which aimed to keep 1.24 million sq km of arable land off limits to urban encroachment by the end of 2020, the Ministry of Natural Resources said in a briefing