CHINA TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE ENOUGH FOOD TO OVER 1 BILLION PEOPLE PART 6 of 8

If you are not convinced, let us move to the next location for more proof:

Location 6: Hejing, Bayingol, Xinjiang, China 42°18'36.1"N 86°36'15.4"E

What are those “red” lands in the middle of the desert?

If we zoom in, you can see it is actually the land of “tomatoes” — billions of tomatoes. You can imagine their scales by measuring the total area.

Next time when you enjoy Italian spaghetti, Turkish kebab, or spreading Heinz ketchup on your chips, think about that, you might eat tomatoes from Xinjiang. It might not directly say the tomatoes are from Xinjiang. These tomatoes might be first exported to a third country and get rebranded just like the honey.

China produces 56.3 million tonnes of tomatoes and dominates the world’s 1/3 tomato exports. Over 14 million are from Xinjiang. You can verify this by looking at the global top ten ketchup companies The World's Leading Producers of Tomatoes:

COFCO Group (China) 2ndXinjiang Chalkis Co. Ltd (China) 3rdFuyuan Agriculture Products Limited (China) 6thHeinz (United States) 7thXinjiang Tianye Co., Ltd. (China) 15th

These companies are more or less the redistributors from the XPCC and the Chinese government. These companies can actually return most of the profits back to the Xinjiang farmers. And just recently the Chinese government is trying to sell Xinjiang tomatoes to eastern Europe through the one belt one road initiative. As Xi Jinping just visited Italy this March 2019, I am not sure whether Italy is interested in Xinjiang’s tomato or not after Xi Jinping’s visit at this time. The western media will never tell you.

Besides tomatoes and chillis, China is also the largest producer of grapes, accounting for 19.1% of global production. And the most and the best of grapes are from Turpan, Xinjiang. However, China really sucks at making wines from grapes.

Finally, let’s talk about the main crops such as rice, wheat, and corns in China. They are the most important food of all, not only to human beings but also to animals such as pigs, chickens, and cattle that produce meat and milk.

Here is a simple comparison between the top four producers across the world:

Arable Land: China 1086 India 1579 EU 1091 US 1631 (1000 km2)Rice: China 208.1 India 169.5 EU 3.1 US 9.2 (million tonnes)Wheat: China 134.3 India 98.5 EU 150.2 US 47.3 (million tonnes)Corn: China 257.3 India 26.0 EU 60.9 US 366.2 (million tonnes)

As you can see, China is an all-around top crop producer compared to the other three regions. However, for a population of 1.4 billion, this is enough to be “filling” but still far from enough if the Chinese want to achieve similar “well-fed” status in per-capita consumption in terms of the developed country standard just like the EU and US.

Currently, there is just not enough arable land for China to produce enough crops to raise 1.4 billion people to the well-fed status. And what’s worse, the arable land in China is quickly shrinking as more and more land has been used for industries and cities.