Comments by "Canice Tang" (@canicetang8837) on "The factors behind China’s food imports that push up global food prices" video.

The CCP always does. But as Communists, they will ALWAYS keep one book on the real facts being secretly hidden, and other sets of books with inflated figures for their propaganda means. As this video reported, it is not only the severe levels of pollution that decimated the environment and the crop productions. Also it is the urbanization of the previously most fertile farmlands, which seriously harmed the efficiency and effectiveness of the agricultural means. Simply put, the globalization policy of building factories and cities on those lands, left the PRC with the second and the third rate farmlands around. Therefore, those other lands which are less suited for agricultural needs, are now used for the primary source of producing foods. Hence the heavy use of chemicals, fertilizers and insecticides to produce food. This increased the cost and drastically reduced the quality and the nutrients of the food. Many of those farmers who were forced to sell their lands, they cannot go back to what they do. So they moved into the cities and doing other works. The PRC all of the sudden has less arable lands and far fewer farmers to grow the food they needed to be self-sustaining.
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@wbwarren57 Over 5,000 people per day dies from air pollution in the PRC. With the one party dictatorship under the control of the CCP, that means the Party have the complete control of everything. So fraudulent report by the provinces to meet and exceed the goals by the leaders in Beijing was often the tactics. This is due to the all-important funding and finance depends on the those satisfactory figures demanded from the top. While it is never wrong to industrialize the country in order to modernize, however, without any responsibility, accountability and oversights being utilized in the Democratic countries. You will have this Rule-by-Law authority with bribes and corruption a normal and an essential part of the operation to "grease the wheel". They just called it "Guanxi" or "Relationships". Any foreign countries or firms dealing business in the PRC will tell you that first hand. There are a lot more of these examples where most of these companies and government would rather not condemn the CCP, but condone to keep the profits going over the human rights and the welfare of the Tibetans, Uyghurs and many other PRC Mainlanders being persecuted, exploited and used as slave labours. Even to the point of have their organs harvested with the prisoners of conscience, then sold in the black market to the highest bidders around the world.
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