130 million tons of food gap attracts attention? Should families stock up on food to cope with food shortage pressure?

The food issue has always attracted public attention. After all, feeding more than one billion people is not a small problem. Especially after the outbreak, some countries restricted food exports, exacerbating people's concerns about food shortages.

Now, as soon as the authoritative report on China's future food gap of 130 million tons came out, it has attracted the public's attention, and people have begun to worry about whether they will face a shortage of food.

The information comes from a report released on August 17 by the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the China Social Sciences Press, which stated that by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China may have a grain gap of about 130 million tons.
It should be said that people's worries are normal. After all, food is the primary need of the people, and many people today have experienced a time of lack of food and clothing, and they still remember that pain vividly.
If we analyze the actual situation in our country in combination with historical data, we can definitely draw the conclusion that although our country must consider the issue of national food security from a strategic position, it is unnecessary to worry about food shortages under the current circumstances. There are four key points that must be made clear regarding my country's food problem:
The first key point is that the 130 million ton food gap seems to be a huge number, but it does not account for a large proportion of my country's huge food consumption, so the impact of the 130 million ton food gap on my country is very limited.
Why are people worried about the food gap? Because a food gap of 130 million tons sounds very scary, but due to my country's huge population base and huge annual food consumption, the impact of the gap is not as big as imagined. It should be said that the impact is relatively limited.
my country has a population of nearly 1.4 billion. If we calculate based on the effective food-consuming population of 1.3 billion, the food gap of 130 million tons is equivalent to a gap of 100 kilograms per person, which is not as large as imagined.
In addition, my country has basically achieved self-sufficiency in grain and is not heavily dependent on imports as rumored. According to data from the white paper "China's Food Security", my country's grain production has remained stable at more than 650 million tons for four consecutive years, and the per capita grain possession is around 470 kilograms, achieving a historic transformation from "not enough to eat" to "enough to eat" and "eating well". Therefore, there is no need for consumers to worry about food shortages.