Chinese Doomsday Preppers?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/01/07/8-Jan-13-World-View-China-quadruples-rice-imports-for-no-apparent-reason

Or perhaps their government vaguely groks civil defense, unlike ours?  Or perhaps it recognizes that war is becoming increasingly likely in the near future and wants to be prepared.  Of course our government is positively mental---advocating prepping through organs like ready.gov while calling preppers 'potential terrorist threats' through other organs.