Build a diversified food supply system, Xi Jinping: Establish a big food concept
Food is the most important thing for the people. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the need to establish a comprehensive agricultural concept and a comprehensive food concept, develop both agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, develop food sources through multiple channels, and build a diversified food supply system. Ensuring a stable and safe supply of food and important agricultural products has always been the top priority in building a powerful agricultural country, and we must ensure that the Chinese people's jobs are firmly in their hands.
From March 18 to 21, 2024, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Hunan.
Xi Jinping emphasized that Hunan must shoulder the important task of maintaining national food security, seize the two key points of seeds and arable land, and speed up research on key core technologies in the seed industry and agricultural machinery. Adhere to the big agricultural concept and the big food concept, actively develop characteristic agriculture and agricultural product processing industry, and improve the level of agricultural industrialization.
On October 16, 2022, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened in the Great Hall of the People. On behalf of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping delivered a report to the conference entitled "Holding high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics and uniting to strive for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country."
Xi Jinping emphasized in the report that we must consolidate the foundation of food security in an all-round way, fully implement the shared responsibilities of the party and government for food security, firmly guard the red line of 1.8 billion acres of cultivated land, gradually build all permanent basic farmland into high-standard farmland, and thoroughly implement the seed industry revitalization action. Strengthen agricultural science and technology and equipment support, improve the income guarantee mechanism for grain farmers and the compensation mechanism for the interests of major producing areas, and ensure that the Chinese people's jobs are firmly in their hands. Establish a big food concept, develop facility agriculture, and build a diversified food supply system. Develop rural specialty industries and expand channels for farmers to increase their income and become rich.
From December 19 to 20, 2023, the Central Rural Work Conference was held in Beijing. The meeting conveyed the important instructions given by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, on the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers".
Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to establish a comprehensive agricultural concept and a comprehensive food concept, develop both agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and build a diversified food supply system. It is necessary to safeguard the lifeblood of cultivated land, resolutely combat illegal occupation and destruction of cultivated land, increase investment in the construction and management of high-standard farmland, and ensure that the quantity of cultivated land is guaranteed and the quality is improved.
From April 10 to 13, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Guangdong. During the inspection, Xi Jinping listened to a briefing on the development of marine fisheries in Guangdong Province.
Xi Jinping pointed out that China is a large country with a population of more than 1.4 billion. To solve the food problem and ensure food security, we must establish a big food concept, ask for food from the land and the sea, cultivate the sea, animal husbandry and fishery, build sea pastures, "Blue Granary".
On March 6, 2022, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited members of the agricultural sector, social welfare and social security sectors who attended the fifth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and participated in a joint organizing meeting to listen to opinions and suggestion.
Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to establish a big food concept, start from better meeting the people's needs for a better life, grasp the changing trend of the people's food structure, and ensure the effective supply of meat, vegetables, fruits, aquatic products and other types of food while ensuring food supply. , nothing will work without it. On the premise of protecting the ecological environment, we should expand from cultivated land resources to the entire land resources, and form a system that is suitable for food, economics, grazing, fishing, and forests to meet market demand. , modern agricultural production structure and regional layout that match the carrying capacity of resources and the environment.
From July 16 to 18, 2015, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited Jilin.
Xi Jinping pointed out that food security is an important foundation for national security. The state should increase support for major grain-producing areas, enhance the ability of major grain-producing areas to develop their economy and increase fiscal revenue, and realize the organic unity of grain production development and economic strength enhancement in major grain-producing areas, so that grain production and farmers' income increase go hand in hand.
On June 27, 2022, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, responded to Xu Congxiang, a major grain grower in Taihe County, Anhui Province, expressing greetings to the local folks and raising high expectations for major grain growers across the country.
Xi Jinping pointed out that if you have food in your hands, you will not panic in your heart. In recent years, the Party Central Committee has introduced a series of policies and measures to support grain production. The purpose is to ensure that the Chinese people's jobs are firmly in their hands, and that grain farmers can earn money and benefit, and their lives will be better and better.
On September 7, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, hosted a symposium on promoting the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province and delivered an important speech.
Xi Jinping pointed out that we must always give top priority to ensuring national food security, accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, improve comprehensive food production capabilities, and ensure that output and supply are sufficient in normal times and reliable and reliable in extreme circumstances.
On September 7, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, hosted a symposium on promoting the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province and delivered an important speech.
Xi Jinping pointed out that we should focus on the development of modern large-scale agriculture and accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. Practice the concept of big food, rationally develop and utilize various resources in the Northeast, actively develop modern ecological breeding, form an industrial system that coordinates grain, economy and feeding, and develops agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery simultaneously, and build agriculture into a big industry. Collaboratively promote primary processing and intensive processing of agricultural products, extend the industrial chain, upgrade the value chain, expand agricultural development space, and promote agricultural efficiency and farmers' income.
From December 23 to 24, 2022, the Central Rural Work Conference was held in Beijing. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and delivered an important speech.
Xi Jinping pointed out that an agricultural power is the foundation of a modern and powerful socialist country. Meeting the people's needs for a better life, achieving high-quality development, and consolidating the foundation of national security are all inseparable from agricultural development. He emphasized that ensuring a stable and safe supply of food and important agricultural products has always been the top priority in building a powerful agricultural country. It is necessary to establish a big food concept, build a diversified food supply system, and develop food sources through multiple channels. It is necessary to strictly assess and urge all localities to truly shoulder the responsibility of ensuring food security.
