Reuters: China needs to import more food to ease water, energy shortages: official

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China needs to import more food to ease water, energy shortages: official

BEIJING (Reuters) - China should boost imports of food so it can dedicate more of its scarce water supplies to energy production, especially in arid but coal-rich regions like Xinjiang and Ningxia, a senior environmental official said on Monday.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654218/s/3cef1d33/sc/2/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/><div class="feedflare">
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