One, food and beverage waste rate as high as 11.7% of China's annual food and beverage waste is very serious.

80 billion pounds to 100 billion pounds! Don't know, look at the shock. Catering session of the waste, is really shocking and heartbreaking. Look at another report, your heart may be even heavier.

China's catering industry per capita food waste is 93 grams per person per meal, the waste rate of 11.7%; and large gatherings waste rate is even higher, reaching a staggering 38%; one-third of the student boxed lunches were thrown away; according to estimates, China's urban catering industry only table food waste between 17 million tons and 18 million tons, equivalent to 30 million people to 50 million people a year's amount of food!

Two, food losses up to tens of billions of pounds of post-production food harvest, does not mean that everything is fine.

Perhaps you are not aware that food from the field to the table, there will be a long industrial chain, production, circulation, storage, processing, each link will cause loss and waste.

We are still talking about data: rainy day grain germination and mold often occurs, farmers backward grain storage methods, the annual grain loss rate of up to 8%; storage and transportation links, due to logistics facilities and ways to be backward, scattered left behind the loss of 15 billion pounds of grain; processing links, due to the excessive pursuit of fine, fine, white lead to excessive processing of enterprises, the loss of more than 15 billion pounds of grain each year.

Three, food consumption for a long time in a tight balance of food for the people, food for food first.

Over the years, although our Chinese people's rice bowl is very stable, but years of harvest, self-sufficiency behind, is the growth of China's food consumption is still faster than the increase in production. Therefore, on the matter of food security, always have a sense of crisis. Don't forget, for a big country with a population of 1.4 billion, any tiny waste is a staggering amount.

As the world's most populous developing country, our country uses only 7 percent of the world's arable land to feed 20 percent of the world's population, which is not an easy achievement. In the medium to long term, China's food production and demand will remain in a tight balance, and it seems that the string of ensuring national food security cannot be relaxed for a moment.

Extended information:

The importance of food:

Food is the foundation of the country, for a large country, food is sufficient is crucial, first of all, for the population, food is sufficient, do not have to import from foreign countries, will not be subject to too much fluctuation, remembered the United States because of the development of new energy sources to reduce food exports, resulting in a surge in global food prices. exports, leading to a surge in global food prices.

But the country if the food is sufficient, basically to reach the state of self-sufficiency, and why be subject to these constraints and affect the country's staff, and only a country with sufficient food, in the war years, but also very useful, how many warriors in ancient times is because of the lack of food and was captured by the enemy.