Zhenzhong Si and Jonathan Crush present the results of HCP’s COVID-19 and Food Security in China Project to the CanCOVID Speaker Series. This presentation introduces the Hungry Cities Partnership and its SSHRC-funded COVID‑19 and Food Security in China Project, analysing the results of a pioneering household survey conducted during the lockdown in 2020 in two Chinese cities: Nanjing and Wuhan.