{"id":155452,"date":"2026-07-31T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155452"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:30:16","slug":"china-is-making-a-great-leap-forward-in-food-production-this-time-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155452","title":{"rendered":"China is making a great leap forward in food production \u2013 this time for real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn June 1958, as China\u2019s Great Leap Forward campaign gained traction, state media began reporting astronomical agricultural yields, including claims from central Henan province of over 3,000 jin per mu \u2013 more than 22 tonnes per hectare.<br \/>\nThat month, scientist Qian Xuesen, father of China\u2019s rocket programme, published theoretical calculations on maximum solar energy conversion during crop photosynthesis, which political cadres cited to validate the claims.<br \/>\nIn the following months, reported yield&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3362510\/china-making-great-leap-forward-food-production-time-real?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn June 1958, as China\u2019s Great Leap Forward campaign gained traction, state media began reporting astronomical agricultural yields, including claims from central Henan province&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}