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We have to develop GM technology to ensure sufficient food supply or the security of other crops would be put at risk. Although our country's grain output increased for nine years in a row in 2012, we imported more than 58 million metric tons of soybeans and 80 million tons of other grains."

WU KONGMING, an academician from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, talking about the significance of GM technology to China's agriculture in a report in the Beijing News on Friday.