Establish and practice the big food concept
Food security is “the most important thing in a country”. For us, a large country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, to solve the problem of food, we cannot just focus on the limited arable land, we must open our minds and establish a big food concept.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "When I was working in Fujian, I worked in mountainous areas and also on the coast. At that time, I proposed the big food concept, meat, eggs, poultry, milk, fish, fruits, fungi, tea... these are all It’s food.” “So, I proposed to build ‘Fuzhou on the Sea’ and ‘Fujian on the Sea’.”
Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions on the big food concept, emphasizing that "establish a big agricultural concept and a big food concept, obtain calories and protein from cultivated land, grasslands, forests and oceans, plants, animals and microorganisms, and develop food in an all-round way." resources”, “requiring food from land as well as the sea, cultivating the sea, animal husbandry and fishery, and building sea pastures and ‘blue granaries’” “promoting both agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and building a diversified food supply system” and “actively developing characteristic agriculture and agricultural products” processing industry and improve the level of agricultural industrialization", which provides important ideas and methods for accelerating the construction of an agricultural power and ensuring that the Chinese people's jobs are firmly in their hands.
"Eight mountains, one water and one farmland", Fujian's per capita cultivated land area is only 1/4 of the national average. For more than 30 years, Fujian has based on its resource endowment and agricultural characteristics and advantages, firmly established and deeply practiced the big food concept, and steadily developed grain production, continue to promote the development of tea, vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry, aquatic products, edible fungi, forest bamboo and other characteristic and advantageous industries, and the food supply is more abundant and diversified, achieving remarkable results in ensuring food security and promoting the development of modern agricultural industry, fully demonstrating It demonstrates the practical power of the Big Food Concept and has an important enlightenment role in establishing and practicing the Big Food Concept in various places and ensuring food security.
We must deeply realize that with the continuous improvement of my country's economic and social development level, people's food needs have become more diversified, and they pay more attention to eating nutritiously and healthily. Statistics show that the country consumes 700,000 tons of grain, 98,000 tons of oil, 1.92 million tons of vegetables, and 230,000 tons of meat every day. The per capita annual raw grain consumption of urban and rural residents in my country has dropped from nearly 248 kilograms in 1978 to about 130 kilograms in 2022. "Eating" is not just about consuming food. Meat, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, fish, mushrooms and bamboo shoots are all delicacies. In addition to cultivated land, my country also has more than 4 billion acres of forest land, nearly 4 billion acres of grassland, and a large number of rivers, lakes and seas. We must change our concepts, establish and practice 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, expand the agricultural production space, develop rich and diverse food varieties, and achieve a balance between the supply and demand of all types of food. , to better meet the increasingly diversified food consumption needs of the people.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “If it is suitable for grain, it will be grain, if it is economical, it will be economical, if it is suitable for grazing, it will be animal husbandry, if it is suitable for fishing, it will be fished, and if it is suitable for forest, it will be forest, so as to form a modern agricultural production structure that adapts to market demand and matches the carrying capacity of resources and the environment. and regional layout. "Fujian develops "forest granaries" by living near mountains and building "blue granaries" by relying on technology to develop facility agriculture and promote the concentration of characteristic modern agriculture in suitable areas and industrial parks to make food available. The categories are richer, the structure is more optimized, and the quality is more guaranteed. We must adhere to proceeding from reality, be good at using systematic concepts, give full play to comparative advantages, develop characteristic agricultural industries according to local conditions, strive to do a good job in "local specialties", and promote the transformation of food supply from single production to diversified supply.
"In all things, eating is the most important thing." Only by firmly taking the initiative in food security can we secure the initiative in rejuvenating a strong country. From the past to the present, from Fujian to the whole country, the big food concept has shown more urgent practical significance and contains more precious value of the times. Forging ahead on a new journey, establishing and practicing a big food concept, fully tapping the advantages of resource endowments, and comprehensively improving agricultural comprehensive production capabilities will surely lay a solid foundation for food security and provide a strong guarantee for promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development.
