Food consumption is one of the most basic activities for human being' s survival and development. To develop a green lifestyle and promote the strategy of ecological civilization, we must first form a sustainable food consumption pattern and then implement it thereafter. At present, China' s enters a new food consumption period, which presents a significant change in the structure of food consumption and a diversification of people' s consumption pattern, etc. On the other side, great changes and challenges come hand-in-hand with each other during this period. For example, there are several bad trends such as health risks resulting from irrational consumption, serious food waste and frequent food-safety incidents, which to a large extent restricts the sustainable development of China's food consumption. Thus, it is recognized that food consumption, as one of the important part in the whole food safety, is of great importance for China' s social-economic development. The current study discusses the definition, principles and characteristics of sustainable food consumption, and then analyzes the similarities and differences between sustainable food consumption and other relevant concepts respectively. We further put forward the realization ways toward sustainable food consumption in China based on the system designing, program formulation, demonstration & extension, public guiding along with monitoring & evaluation orderly to build sustainable food consumption patterns. Additionally, in considering China's current national conditions, we would better select some aspects or cities as pilot areas before implementing the sustainable food consumption-related policies on a large scale. Therefore, we should highlight the big and medium-size cities, poor rural areas and other key regions, and focus on floating populations, students and other emphatic crowds, as well as households and catering industry, to find breakthroughs and explore food consumption patterns.

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