Title: China's anti-food waste campaign puts dinner tables under the government's watchful eye
Headings: China's anti-food waste campaign puts dinner tables under the government's watchful eye
China's anti-food waste campaign puts dinner tables under the government's watchful eye
Food and wealth
Growing surveillance
Agricultural crisis
'People will forget'

Content: Wang, a Wuhan resident whose restaurant shut down due to the lockdown during the Covid-19 outbreak, said China's food industry was still struggling to recover from the epidemic, and now faced pressure to serve less food. "How can restaurants restrict customers from ordering more food?" he said. " Restaurant owners all want to have good business," he said. Wang asked to keep his first name private for fear of an official backlash for speaking out. Growing surveillance
Some Chinese citizens have been frustrated by what they see as yet another political limitation on their everyday lives. In recent years, the government has tightened controls on internet usage, censoring political discussion and actively tracking people's digital footprint. More than 20 million surveillance cameras had been installed in China by 2017, according to state broadcaster CCTV, with facial recognition technology able to track the movements of citizens across the nation. And authorities still regulate which city people can live in with access to health care, and the number of children couples can have. Until the new campaign, eating was "one of the few things people can freely do under China's authoritarian system," said Wu, the political analyst.