Food is the fundamental guarantee for the sustainable development of human society. Countries around the world put food security on their high-priority political agenda. As the largest developing country in the world, China uses only 9% of the world's land, contributing to 25% of the world's food and feeding one-fifth of the population. However, with the transformation and upgrading of the dietary structure, food security in China is latent with a structural crisis. This study explored the demand for cultivated land resources under the evolution of Chinese dietary patterns, examined the transi...