Food is the paramount necessity of life (10)

（People's Daily Online） 08:06, January 05, 2013

The supper of reed reapper: Reed reappers are ready for their supper after a day’s hard toil on Dec. 9, 2012. Every year from November to the spring festival, villagers gather to Reed delta in Zhanhua, Shandong Province, to collect reed which is one of the backbone industry in the Yellow river delta with annual profit more than 70 million yuan. (Xinhua/Zhu Zheng)

Edited and translated by Zhang Leqi.

A bite of China, a documentary about “eating” achieves immediate success nationwide in May, 2012; along with the launching of Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, the space food for the astronauts with Chinese flavor receives great attention; thanks to the help from all walks of life, children from poverty-stricken areas now enjoy “free lunch” in their schools this year; the total output of grain reaches 589,570,000 tons, meaning China achieves a sustained growth for the ninth consecutive year.

“Food is the paramount necessity of life”, so neither trivial nor minor is our daily eating. Then let us follow the editor to review the eating of the year 2012 at the threshold of the New Year.