Legal analysis: The Anti-Food Waste Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China is aimed at the prominent problems strongly reflected by the masses in practice, taking the catering segment as the entry point, focusing on anti-waste in food consumption and sales, promoting savings, and tightening control, while focusing on dealing with the relationship with the law on food security protection and other related laws that are being drafted, and making principled provisions on reducing waste in food, food production and processing, storage and transportation.

Legal basis: "Chinese People's **** and State Anti-Food Waste Law"

Article 1 In order to prevent food waste, safeguard national food security, carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, the practice of socialist core values, save resources, protect the environment, and promote the sustainable development of the economy and society, in accordance with the Constitution, the enactment of this Law.

Second Article The food referred to in this Law refers to the food specified in the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China, including all kinds of food for human consumption or drinking.

Waste of food as referred to in this Law means the failure to reasonably utilize food that is safe for consumption or drinking in accordance with its functional purpose, including abandonment, reduction in the quantity or quality of the food due to unreasonable utilization.

Article 3 The State practises economy and opposes waste.

The State adheres to the principles of multi-pronged measures, precision, scientific management, and social ****governance, and adopts technically feasible and economically reasonable measures to prevent and reduce food waste.

The State advocates a civilized, healthy, resource-saving, and environmentally friendly way of consumption, and a simple, moderate, green, and low-carbon lifestyle.

Article 4 The people's governments at all levels shall strengthen the leadership of anti-food waste work, determine the target tasks of anti-food waste, establish and improve the working mechanism of anti-food waste, organize the monitoring, investigation, analysis and evaluation of food waste, strengthen the supervision and management, and promote the work of anti-food waste.

Local people's governments at or above the county level shall annually publicize the situation of anti-food waste to the society, put forward measures to strengthen anti-food waste, and continuously promote anti-food waste in the whole society.

Article 5 The development and reform department of the State Council shall strengthen the organization and coordination of the national anti-food waste work; together with the relevant departments of the State Council, it shall annually analyze and assess the situation of food waste, and deploy the anti-food waste work as a whole, and put forward the relevant work measures and opinions, which shall be implemented by the relevant departments.

The competent department of commerce under the State Council shall strengthen the management of the catering industry, establish and improve industry standards and service norms; in conjunction with the market supervision and administration department under the State Council, it shall establish a system of norms for combating food waste in the catering industry, and shall take measures to encourage catering operators to provide meal-sharing services, and disclose to the public their anti-food waste situation.

The State Council market supervision and management department shall strengthen the supervision of food production and operation of anti-food waste, urge food production and operation of anti-food waste measures.

The State Food and Material Reserve Department shall strengthen the management of grain storage and circulation in the process of grain saving and loss reduction, and in conjunction with the relevant departments of the State Council, organize the implementation of standards for grain storage, transportation and processing.

The relevant departments of the State Council, in accordance with this Law and the State Council's responsibilities, to take measures to carry out anti-food waste work.