Making Food Security a Top Priority in Governance | Global | Food Security
Food security is the greatest concern of a country.
Deeply understanding the significant significance of ensuring food security in the new era
Solving the problem of eating well is an important manifestation of adhering to the development concept of putting the people at the center. The issue of food for over 1.4 billion people is the biggest livelihood and national condition in China.China, with 9% of the world's arable land and 6% of its freshwater resources, has nurtured nearly one-fifth of the world's population, achieving a historic transformation from 400 million people unable to eat enough back then to over 1.4 billion people eating well today. On the new journey, we adhere to the development concept of putting the people at the center, and demand to better meet the needs of the people for a better life, adapt to the new trend of increasing household income and upgrading food structure, meet the new needs of the people for good eating, nutritious and healthy eating, and ensure the effective supply of various foods such as meat, vegetables, fruits, and aquatic products while ensuring food supply.
Firmly stabilizing China's rice bowl is a magic weapon to cope with world turbulence and change. Only by achieving basic self-sufficiency in food can a country have the ability to control and maintain the overall economic and social development. At present, the world's unprecedented great changes are accelerating, and the trend of anti globalization is rising. Unilateralism and protectionism are clearly on the rise. China's development has entered a period of strategic opportunities and risks, with an increase in uncertain and unpredictable factors. This poses higher requirements for ensuring national food security. On the new journey, only by comprehensively consolidating the foundation of food security and firmly holding the initiative of food security in one's own hands can we enhance the security and stability of development, stabilize the initiative of national rejuvenation, and provide strong support for achieving new victories in comprehensively building a socialist modernized country.
Strengthening international cooperation on food security is an important support for building a global community with a shared future for development. Food security is related to the sustainable development and future destiny of humanity, and is an important foundation for building a community with a shared future for mankind. China has relied on its own efforts to solve the food problem for over 1.4 billion people, making significant contributions to maintaining world food security and providing reference and inspiration for countries around the world to solve food problems. One important aspect of building a global community with a shared future for development and promoting the implementation of global development initiatives is to strengthen international cooperation on food security, gather global forces to address food security challenges, jointly enhance global food supply security capabilities, maintain the stability of the global food industry and supply chain, jointly promote a more fair and reasonable global food security governance system, and provide a more solid foundation for promoting world prosperity and human civilization progress.
Grasp the strategic requirements for ensuring food security in the new era
Accurately grasp the strategic positioning of food security. To view the issue of food security, we must base ourselves on the overall strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the unprecedented changes in the world. We must deeply understand that food security is the "greatest of the country", an important foundation of national security, and a top priority in governing the country. It should also be recognized that food security has always been the fundamental support for China to achieve economic stability and social harmony. Only by comprehensively consolidating the foundation of food security can we effectively prevent and resist various risks and challenges in the severe and complex world changes, and lay a solid foundation for ensuring the overall stability of the country.
Always adhere to putting myself first and based on the domestic market. China, with a population of over 1.4 billion, must always rely on self-reliance to ensure its own livelihood. We must always tighten the string of food security, always adhere to the principle of putting ourselves first, based on domestic conditions, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and technological support, ensuring basic self-sufficiency of grains and absolute food security. Ensuring the effective supply of important agricultural products such as grain is the primary task of agricultural modernization, and relying on our own strength to ensure the stability and stability of the Chinese people's rice bowl. To implement the strictest farmland protection system and firmly maintain the red line of 1.8 billion mu of farmland; Accelerate the construction of high standard farmland, improve construction standards and quality, and ensure the achievement of drought and flood protection, high and stable yields; We must adhere to the self-reliance and self-improvement of agricultural technology, accelerate the research and development of key core technologies, the transformation and promotion of achievements, and not only use modern information technologies such as the Internet of Things and big data to develop smart agriculture, but also accelerate the filling of the gaps in modern agricultural material equipment such as drying and storage, cold chain preservation, and agricultural machinery; Based on disaster prevention and harvest, we will strengthen the construction of animal and plant epidemic prevention and quarantine systems, disaster prevention and reduction systems, etc.
Establish a big food concept. This is a strategic demand for optimizing the allocation of agricultural resources, coordinating the utilization of land resources, and ensuring effective food supply in the new era. We should start from better meeting the needs of the people for a better life, grasp the trend of changes in the food structure of the people, and ensure the effective supply of various foods such as meat, vegetables, fruits, and aquatic products while ensuring food supply. To build a diversified food supply system, expand from traditional crops and livestock resources to richer biological resources, demand food from forests, grasslands, rivers, lakes, and seas, and demand heat and protein from plants, animals, and microorganisms; On the premise of protecting the ecological environment, we should expand from arable land resources to the entire national land resources, and form a modern agricultural production structure and regional layout that is suitable for market demand and matches the carrying capacity of resources and environment, with suitable grain, economy, animal husbandry, fishing, and forestry.
Firmly grasp the initiative of food security
One is to strengthen the political responsibility and policy support for food security. We must strictly implement the shared responsibility of the Party and government for food security, and strictly assess the responsibility system for food security. We need to increase policy support to make it profitable for farmers to grow grain and encourage the main production areas to actively capture grain. Specifically, it is necessary to establish a sound mechanism for ensuring the income of grain farmers, stabilize and strengthen subsidies for grain farmers, enhance their ability to regulate their income and storage, continuously improve the minimum purchase price policy for grain, and gradually expand the implementation scope of full cost insurance for rice, wheat, and corn and planting income insurance, so that farmers can grow grain without losing money, earn money, and gain more benefits. At the same time, it is necessary to improve the compensation mechanism for the interests of major grain producing areas, increase subsidies, and never let heavy farmers lose out on their efforts to catch grain, ensuring that major grain producing counties benefit and develop their crops.
The second is to deeply implement the strategy of "storing grain in the ground and storing grain in technology". Food security lies fundamentally in arable land, and the way out lies in technology. We must give more prominence to improving the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, truly implement the principle of "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology", focus on our own agricultural production, and respond to the uncertainty of the external environment with the certainty of domestic stable production and supply. We must comprehensively strengthen the responsibility of local party committees and governments at all levels to protect farmland, and resolutely curb the "non agriculturalization" of farmland and the "non grainification" of basic farmland. To improve the efficiency of farmland utilization, gradually build all permanent basic farmland into high standard farmland, implement the national black soil protection project, increase the transformation of medium and low yield farmland, and improve the fertility level of farmland. We also need to deeply implement the action of revitalizing the seed industry, promote the research and development of key core technologies in agriculture, focus on improving yield, reducing costs and increasing efficiency, research and develop comprehensive plans for the integration and assembly of good fields, good seeds, good laws, good opportunities, and good systems, and focus on improving land productivity and total factor productivity in agriculture.
The third is to continuously improve the ability to regulate grain reserves. Grain reserves are an important material foundation for ensuring national food security, serving as a "ballast stone" and "stabilizer" for responding to emergencies and maintaining market stability. To scientifically determine the function and scale of grain reserves, reform and improve the management system of grain reserves, and improve the operational mechanism of grain reserves. We need to strengthen the coordinated guarantee of grain production, purchase, storage, and sales, improve the monitoring and early warning system, and maintain the overall stability of the grain market. To enhance emergency reserve capacity, promote modernization of grain circulation, improve transportation networks and distribution systems, and effectively solve the "last mile" problem of emergency distribution and supply.
The fourth is to accelerate the high-quality development of the grain industry. We need to deepen the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, accelerate the construction of a modern agricultural industrial system, production system, and management system, promote the improvement of varieties, quality, brand building, and standardized production, and guide agriculture to shift from an increase in production orientation to an improvement in quality orientation. We should take "grain at the beginning and food at the end" and "agricultural at the beginning and work at the end" as the starting point, leverage our own advantages, extend the grain industry chain, enhance the value chain, and build a supply chain, continuously improve the quality, efficiency, and competitiveness of agriculture, promote the transformation and upgrading of the grain industry, and achieve the unity of food security and modern and efficient agriculture. We need to carry out food conservation actions, strengthen legislation, strengthen supervision, take effective measures, establish long-term mechanisms, resolutely stop food waste, and promote the formation of a good trend of diligence, thrift, and thrift in the whole society.
The fifth is to strengthen the management of the international agricultural product supply chain. We should focus on cultivating new international competitive advantages in agriculture, expanding agricultural opening up to the outside world, making full use of international agricultural resources, expanding the world's total food supply through diversified food import channels and agricultural technology cooperation, and improving the safety, stability, and sustainability of the international supply chain of agricultural food. We need to strengthen global monitoring of agricultural investment, trade, and market risks, and promote the advancement of risk prevention and control measures; Accelerate the cultivation of global agricultural and food enterprises, encourage them to deeply integrate into global agricultural production, processing, logistics, marketing, and trade industry chains, value chains, and supply chains; Continuously improving and strengthening global food security governance, expanding international cooperation in agriculture, and building a safe, controllable, and sustainable global agricultural food supply network.
