Foreign media: Food safety has spawned Chinese homegrown vegetables

British Daily Telegraph May 29 article, original title: After many years of “Blu-ray pork” and “explode watermelon”, China has become an organic road from a lot of runner beans lining the balcony railing of a residential building in Beijing. Emerging organic farms and organic shops, Chinese families are gradually looking to "self-cultivation food."

Yu Luping, a 74-year-old retired teacher, is watering lettuce seeds on the balcony of her second home in Beijing. She said: “Now, people are worried about food safety, so we decided to give it a try.” In the residential building where the teacher lives, since the advent of posters propagating vegetables, 80 families have begun to experiment with balcony gardening. Guo Rongjuan, who initiated the event, said: “People have been planting flowers on the balcony before, but now they have found that planting vegetables can also make the balconies green and provide them with fresh food. People are starting to pay attention to food safety and they are paying attention. The degree is constantly improving."

On a larger scale, there are also organic farmers and numerous cooperative programs that rent small plots for city dwellers who want to get close to the farmland. Peng Xunan, founder of “Mulan Community Farm” has 200 farms across the country, and the number of rented species is still rising. Peng Xunan said that there are three kinds of people renting farms. One is a family who wants to teach children to grow food, one is a retired person, and the other is a person who is increasingly worried about food safety.

Wang Yanzong, 75, manages vegetable fields in his community. He said: “When we were in 2007, many vegetable fields were not yet rented. Now that people are growing vegetables, people have to wait in line.”