The Clean Plate campaign is a movement initiated in 2013 to reduce food waste and ensure food security in China. With the initial campaign from the grass-root, it soon receives government encouragement and support. Aligned with Chinese leader and CCP general secretary Xi Jinping's platform of anti-corruption and instilling more discipline among party members, there were government instructions and demands to limit the government spending on social banquet, which was a big contributor of food waste. However, other than that measure, the government mostly stayed out of the private realm with no central regulations on private practices of food waste. There was some local effort but most of it died out soon.