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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Economics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Economics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Экономика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2329</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8986</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">36227</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2329-2023-31-3-460-475</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">NUMEFV</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Developed and developing countries economy</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Экономика развитых и развивающихся стран</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">China’s food problem: Issues of system transformation and security in a crisis</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Продовольственная проблема Китая: вопросы преобразования системы и безопасности в условиях кризиса</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Yakimovich</surname><given-names>Elena A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Якимович</surname><given-names>Елена Александровна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">Candidate of Science (In Economics), An assistant of the International Economic Relations Department, Faculty of Economics, RUDN University; Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance of LLC «GEH Teploenergoremont».</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">кандидат экономических наук, ассистент кафедры международных экономических отношений экономического факультета, Российский университет дружбы народов; заместитель генерального директора по экономике и финансам, ООО «ГЭХ Теплоэнергоремонт».</bio><email>yakimovich_ea@pfur.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">RUDN University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">LLC «GEH Teploenergoremont»</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">ООО «ГЭХ Теплоэнергоремонт»</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-09-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>09</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>31</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">MODERNIZATION AND INNOVATION. NEW CHALLENGES OF THE WORLD ECONOMY</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">МОДЕРНИЗАЦИЯ И ИННОВАЦИИ. НОВЫЕ ВЫЗОВЫ МИРОВОЙ ЭКОНОМИКИ</issue-title><fpage>460</fpage><lpage>475</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-10-04"><day>04</day><month>10</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Yakimovich E.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Якимович Е.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Yakimovich E.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Якимович Е.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/economics/article/view/36227">https://journals.rudn.ru/economics/article/view/36227</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">Against the background of a global decline in food security over the past three to four years, China, remaining the world’s largest food importer, has made notable progress in improving its food security. China’s food security transformation has greatly improved not only the availability but also the affordability of food, as well as the sustainability of the Chinese food system. The increase in agricultural production, including grain production in China, indicates a transition from an extensive development model with high resource dependence to a sustainable intensification model. As a result of rapid economic and social development, the food pattern has changed based on high value foods such as meat, dairy products, fish and fish products. However, there are a number of serious problems in China’s food system. China has insufficient self-sufficiency and high import dependence on a number of food products. New to China’s nutritional challenges are the overweight part of the population and the resulting increasing burden on the health care system. In addition, China’s food losses exceed those of developed countries. The changes that the world economy is undergoing, the influence of non-market factors such as ideology, geopolitics and challenges to the multilateral trade and investment system, can seriously disrupt the global agricultural market and reduce the food security of China, which is heavily dependent on foreign food trade. The transformation of China’s food system is aimed at preventing and eliminating the risks of disruption of food imports, diversifying import sources, reducing the cost of agricultural products through scientific and technological progress and increasing investment in infrastructure, the transition of Chinese agriculture from a strategy of increasing production to improving the quality of products and its security.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">На фоне глобального снижения продовольственной безопасности на протяжении последних трех-четырех лет Китай, оставаясь крупнейшим импортером продовольствия в мире, добился заметных успехов в повышении своей продовольственной безопасности. Преобразования Китая в области продовольственной безопасности значительно улучшили не только наличие, но и доступность продовольствия, а также устойчивость китайской продовольственной системы. Увеличение сельскохозяйственного производства, в том числе производства зерна, в Китае свидетельствует о переходе от модели экстенсивного развития, с высокой ресурсозависимостью, к модели устойчивой интенсификации. В результате быстрого экономического и социального развития изменилась структура питания, основанная на продуктах высокой ценности, таких как мясо, молочные продукты, рыба и рыбные продукты. Тем не менее в продовольственной системе Китая наблюдается ряд серьезных проблем. Китай имеет недостаточную самообеспеченность и высокую импортозависимость по ряду продовольственных товаров. Новыми для Китая проблемами в сфере питания стали избыточный вес части населения и связанная с этим возрастающая нагрузка на систему здравоохранения. Кроме того, потери продовольствия Китая превышают аналогичные показатели развитых стран. Изменения, которые претерпевает мировая экономика, влияние таких нерыночных факторов, как идеология, геополитика и вызовы системе многосторонней торговли и инвестиций, могут серьезно нарушить глобальный сельскохозяйственный рынок и снизить продовольственную безопасность Китая, который в значительной степени зависит от внешней торговли продовольственными товарами. Преобразование продовольственной системы Китая направлено на предотвращение и устранение рисков нарушений импортных поставок продовольствия, диверсификацию источников импорта, снижение себестоимости продукции сельского хозяйства за счет научно-технического прогресса и увеличения инвестиций в инфраструктуру, переход китайского сельского хозяйства от стратегии роста производства к повышению качества продукции и ее безопасности.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>food security</kwd><kwd>food system</kwd><kwd>global food crisis</kwd><kwd>self-sufficiency</kwd><kwd>food import dependence</kwd><kwd>transformation</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>продовольственная безопасность</kwd><kwd>продовольственная система</kwd><kwd>глобальный продовольственный кризис</kwd><kwd>самообеспеченность</kwd><kwd>продовольственная импортозависимость</kwd><kwd>трансформация</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Chernova, V.Y., Zobov, A.M., Degtereva, E.A., Starostin, V.S., &amp; Andronova, I.V. 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