Source: CCTV.com

12-02-2008 09:11

The country's top economic planner says China can expect a record-high grain output of 525 billion kilograms this year, sustaining the trend of increasing grain harvests for five straight years.

The country's top economic planner says China can expect a  record-high grain output of 525 billion kilograms this year, sustaining the trend of increasing grain harvests for five  straight years.

Du Ying, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, said at a meeting in Hefei, the capital of east China's Anhui Province that the steady increase in the grain output has helped reinforce people's confidence in the country's economic and social development.

But he pointed out that China will face a hard year for the agricultural sector in 2009, as the global financial crisis starts to cause issues with the world grain market. Du said prices of wheat, corn and rice started to fall in October.

 

Editor:Xiong Qu