Workers are on a production line at a food factory in Liuzhou, Guangxi, in this file photo. China’s food industry reported stable expansion in terms of production and sales in the first seven months of the year, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) showed. In the first seven months, retail sales of the food industry witnessed robust growth, with that of grain, oil and food up 10.6 percent from a year earlier to 929.07 billion yuan (US$143.24 billion).Xinhua