CCP will legislate to "stop food waste", returning to the era of "planned economy" that controls food

Reporter : Zhong Gusheng / Editor : Ming Xuan / Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television

Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/08/13/a102917590.html / Extract translation

Xi Jinping recently ordered to "stop food waste", and various departments of the Chinese Communist Party followed suit. The National People's Congress claimed that it would "legislate" for this. Faced with this new round of "political movement", netizens worry that China's food crisis is approaching, and the CCP will return to the era of "planned economy" that controls food.

On Thursday (13 August), the official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China stated that Xi Jinping had issued "important instructions" to "strengthen legislation and strengthen supervision" and "stop food waste" in a "long-term effective" manner.

The article also quoted Zhang Guilong, the first-level inspector of the Administrative Law Office of the Legal Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, saying that the Legal Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress will set up a special class to study domestic and foreign legislation, documents and policy measures to stop food waste before proposing a legislative plan.

Zhang Guilong said that China's grain supply and demand have been in a so-called "tight balance" for a long time, so it is necessary to stop waste. The Legal Work Committee will adopt legislation, decisions and other forms to make specific and clear regulations on the prevention of food wastage.

Zhang Guilong further said that the Legal Work Commission will, in specific legislation, not only in terms of catering consumption, but also strengthen management in various links such as food production, purchase, storage, transportation, and processing to reduce losses and wastage.

In recent years, the CCP’s "political line" has been turning left. CCP officials claimed to strengthen grain management in “all links”, which is worrying whether they will return to the “planned economy” era of “monopoly purchase and sales”.

Prior to this, Xi Jinping's emphasis on "stopping food waste" has sparked a political movement across the country. Many wonderful "anti-waste" measures have been introduced in various places. Among them, the "10:9 meals" promoted by the Wuhan catering industry has been widely hyped. Some netizens posted a grain and oil supply certificate with Mao Zedong's quotations in those days, ridiculing whether they should return to the era of “grain and oil supply”.

But there are also many netizens who believe that the so-called "prevent wastage of food", CCP officials are just staged a "political show", because the largest scale of food waste occurs at the tables of officials at all levels.