China secures bumper grain harvest for 2022

In this May 21, 2019 photo, farmers check the growth of wheat in a field in Shibali Township of Qiaocheng district in Bozhou, east China's Anhui province. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

BEIJING – China's grain output totaled about 686.53 billion kg this year, up 0.5 percent or 3.68 billion kg over 2021, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Monday.

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This is the eighth consecutive year for China to register a grain harvest of over 650 billion kg.