East China’s Jiangsu province has launched a province-wide campaign against food waste in response to General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on resolutely putting an end to wasting food and promoting thrift.
Restaurants in downtown Nanjing are offering small dishes to avoid food waste by scaling down the meal size and accordingly the prices. A grilled shrimp on iron plate used to be sold with 24 shrimps but has now scaled down to 14.
Some restaurants are offering smaller lunch box for the diners to pack the leftovers.
People in various parts of the province are joining in the campaign cleaning up you plates in response to the call for frugality from the central government.
25 left-behind children at a summer camp of a primary school in Sihong County signed on a banner to advocate thrift.
Educational departments have launched an initiative to call for efforts against food waste.
College students were organized in Xiangshui County to visit supermarkets and restaurants in a bid to raise people’s awareness of promoting thrift.
