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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
The Chinese have released a new figure for grain output in 1974 that is far larger than output claimed for any previous year. At an FAO conference held in Rome in mid-November 1975, the vice-minister of agriculture and forestry, Yang Li-kung, reported that total grain output was 274.9 million tons. And a 10 December Reuters dispatch from Peking speculated on the basis of this 1974 figure that China's 1975 harvest could be more than 280 million tons.
1. The Financial Times (London), 2 December 1975.Google ScholarPubMed See also Maxwell, Neville, ”Letter from Peking,” Far Eastern Economic Review, 19 December 1975.Google Scholar
2. The Times (London), 11 December 1975.Google ScholarPubMed
3. See, e.g., Ibid. 11 November 1975.
