China will ensure national food security from eight aspects
On August 28th, the report of the State Council on ensuring national food security was submitted for review at the 5th meeting of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee. The report proposes to strengthen the food security guarantee system and capacity building, vigorously implement grain storage in the land, actively promote grain storage in technology, increase agricultural protection support, effectively improve food regulation capabilities, accelerate the construction of modern food industry and circulation system, continuously improve diversified food supply capacity, and deepen food conservation and loss reduction actions to ensure national food security.
The report shows that in recent years, China's grain production has steadily developed, with sufficient market supply and overall stable operation. The ability to prevent and resolve major risks and challenges has been continuously enhanced, and the level of food security has significantly improved. China's grain production has remained stable at over 1.3 trillion kilograms for 8 consecutive years. In 2022, the grain production was 1373.1 billion kilograms, with a grain yield of 386.8 kilograms per mu, an increase of 49.8 billion kilograms and 13 kilograms respectively compared to 5 years ago; The per capita share of grain reached 486.1 kilograms, which is higher than the internationally recognized food security line of 400 kilograms.
Ensuring food security is an eternal issue. The report introduces the main work and achievements in ensuring national food security in recent years, and also points out the main problems and risks faced by China's food security. For the consideration of ensuring national food security, the report proposes to adhere to the bottom line thinking, enhance awareness of potential risks, take multiple measures and implement comprehensive measures in accordance with the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, comprehensively consolidate the foundation of food security, focus on resolving the adverse effects of the international food market, and firmly uphold the bottom line of national food security.
The report proposes to ensure national food security from eight aspects, including strengthening the food security guarantee system and capacity building. The report proposes to strengthen the legal guarantee of food security and promote the introduction of the Food Security Guarantee Law and the Farmland Protection Law, focusing on the construction of the food security guarantee system and capacity. The report proposes to implement the new round of land spatial planning to clarify the protection tasks of arable land and permanent basic farmland, ensuring that the red line of 1.8 billion mu of arable land will not be broken, strengthening the protection and utilization of agricultural germplasm resources, comprehensively implementing major agricultural biological breeding projects, and firmly holding the dominant variety in one's own hands. Regarding increasing support for agricultural protection, the report proposes to improve the compensation mechanism for the interests of major grain producing areas, and promote more agricultural funds to be tilted towards these areas.