There are currently around five hundred CSA projects in China, many of which were founded within the past ten years. The rapid spread of CSA in China can be tracked through the annual national CSA conference, which was first held at Beijing’s Renmin University in 2009. While the earliest conference drew a small number of scholars and few practitioners, subsequent conferences have included hundreds of participants from all over the country. Chinese people from a wide diversity of backgrounds have come to recognize their own work in the values and modular practices of CSA; and it is through these annual meetings that the broader CSA community in China has come to recognize itself as a movement – one oriented to crucial issues of agroecology and rural-urban social justice