To Increase Food Security, China Expands Farmland

HONG KONG - Chinese leader Xi Jinping has returned to emphasizing the importance of food production with a new government policy that offers subsidized land reclaimed from manufacturing sites to farmers, many of whom have migrated to large cities to improve their prospects.

Increasing China-U.S. tensions and the global supply chain snarls of the pandemic prompted Beijing to realize its dependence on U.S. soy and