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On the afternoon of July 20, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the second meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Committee to study issues such as strengthening the protection of cultivated land and the comprehensive transformation and utilization of saline-alkali land. In an important speech at the meeting, Xi Jinping emphasized that food security is the "big country" and cultivated land is the lifeblood of food production. It is necessary to implement the strategy of storing grain in the ground and storing grain in technology, effectively strengthen the protection of cultivated land, and make every effort to improve the quality of cultivated land. Tap the potential for comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land, steadily expand agricultural production space, and improve comprehensive agricultural production capacity.

Cultivated land is the most precious resource in China, and ensuring national food security is fundamentally based on cultivated land. Our Party has always attached great importance to the protection of arable land. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has implemented a series of hard measures to maintain the red line of arable land and initially curb the continuous decline in the total amount of arable land. On the new era and new journey, the task of protecting arable land has not been reduced, but has become even more arduous. We must emphasize the importance of both quantity and quality, strengthen the protection and quality improvement of arable land, and solidify the foundation of food security.

Defend the red line of cultivated land firmly. The red line of arable land is the bottom line for ensuring national food security, and the red line of 1.8 billion mu of arable land is the bottom line for ensuring China's food security. After arduous efforts, China has raised nearly 1/5 of the world's population with 9% of the world's arable land and 6% of the world's freshwater resources, and its food production has remained above 1.3 trillion kilograms for 8 consecutive years. At the same time, it is important to be aware that China's national situation of having more people and less land has not changed, and the problem of "non grain" and "non agriculturalization" of arable land still exists. The foundation for maintaining the red line of arable land is not yet stable. We must comprehensively strengthen the responsibility of local party committees and governments at all levels to protect arable land, implement the clear tasks of protecting arable land and permanent basic farmland in the new round of national land spatial planning, strictly investigate and punish illegal and irregular occupation of arable land for non-agricultural construction, strictly control the conversion of arable land to other agricultural land, and ensure that the red line of 1.8 billion mu of arable land is never exceeded. Widely carry out propaganda activities to curb the "non agriculturalization" of cultivated land and prevent the "non grainification" of cultivated land, discover illegal and irregular land behaviors at the beginning and solve them at the beginning, and maintain a good land use order.

Improve the quality of cultivated land. The red line includes both quantity and quality. 1.8 billion mu of arable land must truly deserve its name. Farmland is farmland, and it must be good farmland. The quality of farmland is the foundation of food security, and the average grain production capacity per mu of high standard farmland generally increases by 10% to 20%. With the rigid growth trend of grain demand in our country, only by building and utilizing high standard farmland well can we build a solid foundation for grain production with high quality. We must conscientiously implement the National High Standard Farmland Construction Plan, adhere to local conditions, highlight goal orientation and problem orientation, and continuously improve the infrastructure conditions of farmland through comprehensive measures such as field improvement, soil improvement, irrigation and drainage ditches, and field road matching. We will concentrate our efforts on creating high standard farmland that is concentrated, contiguous, drought and flood resistant, water-saving and efficient, stable and high-yield, and ecologically friendly. We will ensure that 1.2 billion mu of high standard farmland is built by 2030, and can stably guarantee grain production capacity of over 1.2 trillion kilograms. Strengthen the post construction management and protection of high standard farmland, establish and improve a long-term management and protection mechanism, and ensure that "one acre is built, one acre is well managed, and one acre is effective.".

Strengthen farmland reserves. Protecting arable land not only requires maintaining the quantity, but also making every effort to increase the reserve resources of arable land. China is the third largest country in the world in terms of saline alkali land distribution, with over 500 million acres of various available saline alkali land resources, making it a potential granary for increasing grain production. In recent years, China has made every effort to overcome the problem of saline alkali land utilization by deeply integrating industry, academia, and research, gathering advantageous resources. From carrying out soil salinization control demonstrations, to promoting special surveys to clarify the "family background", from establishing the National Saline Alkali Agriculture Science and Technology Innovation Alliance, to establishing the National Saline Alkali Comprehensive Utilization Technology Innovation Center, China has collaborated to promote saline alkali land governance and comprehensive utilization, resulting in a continuous reduction in saline alkali land area and a decreasing proportion of severe saline alkali land area year by year. The comprehensive transformation and utilization of saline alkali land is an important aspect of farmland protection and improvement. It is necessary to carry out saline alkali land management and improvement in different areas and classifications, use saline alkali land according to local conditions, accelerate the selection of saline alkali resistant characteristic varieties, and through governance empowerment, ecological empowerment, technological empowerment, and industrial empowerment, do a good job in saline alkali land characteristic agriculture, so that more saline alkali land can become new granaries and help us firmly hold our rice bowls in our hands.

Consolidate the foundation of cultivation and build a good granary. Strengthening the storage of grain in the land and technology, prioritizing the protection of arable land and balancing the quantity and quality of arable land, and jointly focusing on grain production capacity, quantity and quality, and production ecology, enhancing the resilience and stability of the agricultural supply chain, can steadily promote China's food security to a higher level.