Food is the paramount necessity of life (5)

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

Enjoying Watermelon: The 5-year-old Zhan Xu and his 15-year-old brother Zhan Wei enjoy watermelon on July 24, 2012. Zhan Wei is one of the lucky children who receive help from “Realizing Your Dream”, a group of college students and professors from Taiyuan Institute of Technology. The “Realizing Your Dream” is now helping 220 students who are orphans or from single-parent family. (Xinhua/ Fan Minda)

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.