Wang Yi Talks about China's Contributions to Safeguarding Global Food Security

On July 8, 2022 local time, when attending the Group of Twenty (G20) Foreign Ministers' Meeting on the Bali Island, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi introduced China's contributions to safeguarding global food security.

Wang Yi said, China is a reliable cooperative partner of the United Nations and developing countries in the field of food security. We have supported the World Food Programme (WFP) in setting up a global humanitarian response depot and hub in China. In cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), we have established and sponsored the China-FAO South-South Cooperation Trust Fund. In cooperation with the FAO and the WFP, we have implemented more than 40 South-South cooperation projects under the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund. We have established agricultural cooperation zones with developing countries, carried out exchanges on agricultural science and technology with more than 140 countries and regions, and promoted more than 1,000 agricultural technologies in developing countries, driving the crop yield in the project areas to increase by 30 percent to 60 percent on average. Since the beginning of this year, China has offered more than 15,000 tons of emergency humanitarian food aid to developing countries in need. China will continue to make new efforts to promote food security.