(XINHUA)

Cui Yongyuan, a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has called on the government to strengthen supervision of genetically modified (GM) crops during the committee's annual session, which concluded on March 12.

Cui, a former talk show host, said that GM crops, including GM corn and rice, are illegally grown on a large scale in some Chinese provinces when the government has only approved the production of GM cotton, and only on an experimental basis.