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by seanmcdirmid 1389 days ago
Northern China grows plenty of rice. Heilongjiang is currently China’s top rice producer (the southern provinces grow more in aggregate of course).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/242360/production-of-ric...

However the seats of power are more centered around Beijing in the south, where not much rice grows (though today you can find some rice farming in the area).