Download or read book Chinese Grain Economy and Policy written by Liang Yu Chen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is the largest grain producer in the world, over 400 million tonnes being produced in 1984. This sustains the lives of one thousand million Chinese and is a potentially important factor in the stabilization of world grain markets. By virtue of its sheer size, China has the capability of significantly affecting world grain markets; but since the founding of the People's Republic of China the government has also imposed tight controls on the agricultural sector of the economy."