Relying on one's own strength to secure the production of rice bowls | agriculture | rice bowls

Author: Ouyang Qi

In promoting the organic combination of production capacity, quantity and quality, and production ecology, the CPC has united and led the people of all ethnic groups to rely on their own strength, have confidence, confidence, and ability to cope with various risks and challenges, and end steadily, end well, and secure China's job.

More than 3.7 million mu of winter wheat in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province has entered the mature stage, showing a trend of "three increases" in the number of spikes per mu, grain number per spike, and thousand grain weight. Photo by Geng Yuhe/Guangming Image

1. Adhere to production capacity and work together to ensure stable employment in the middle end

Persisting in both production and production capacity is a prerequisite for relying on one's own strength to secure a job. The people are the foundation of the country, and the valley is the destiny of the people. Solving the problem of food is of paramount importance for both personal survival and development as well as for the governance of the ruling party. The amount of grain production in a country is not only an economic data reflecting the level of agricultural development, but also a political issue related to national economy and people's livelihood, and a strategic issue related to development security. Especially for a populous country like China, the global annual grain trade volume is only half of China's grain demand, and the rice trade volume is only a quarter of China's rice consumption. Therefore, the focus is always on domestic agriculture, and the main focus is on our own food production. This is a basic requirement for maintaining China's food security and an important maintenance of world food security. Only by truly mastering the initiative of food security can we grasp the initiative of national rejuvenation. China has a long history of agricultural civilization and a good foundation of self-reliance in grain production. However, there is only so much arable land, insufficient per capita resources, and prominent contradictions such as aging farmers and hollowing out rural areas. In the process of new industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, it is urgent to focus on both production and production capacity. Yield is the actual production quantity of grain, and production capacity is the comprehensive production capacity of grain. Production capacity is the support of output, and output may not necessarily be the complete release of production capacity. After all, the shortage of food is a problem that will affect people's food and clothing; Having too much food is also a problem, which will cause financial pressure. Although the nature of the two problems is different, the negative impact of "low grain prices harming farmers" cannot be ignored. Therefore, while focusing on production, we must also grasp production capacity, promote strong support and even scientific adjustment of production capacity.

Adhering to the principle of both production and production capacity is to ensure that grain is produced and supplied. Specifically, first of all, we need to grasp the fundamentals and focus on the two key points of arable land and seeds. As the old saying goes, "The people do not eat unless they have grains, and the grains do not grow unless they have land." Only by strictly guarding the red line of farmland protection can we safeguard the lifeline of grain production and the foundation of sustainable development of the Chinese nation. To protect arable land, we must not only improve the construction standards and quality, but also strive to build all permanent basic farmland into high standard farmland with stable and high yield, drought and flood protection, and build a national food security industrial belt. At the same time, we must strengthen the control of land use, ensure the use of good farmland and grain, resolutely curb the "non agriculturalization" of arable land and the "non grainification" of basic farmland, have "zero tolerance" for violations, and regulate the balance between occupation and compensation. We must strictly take remedial measures in accordance with regulations for the occupation of arable land by industrialization and urbanization within the scope permitted by national laws and policies, and be cautious of harmful behaviors such as occupying more and supplementing less, occupying the better and supplementing the worse. China has a vast territory, significant differences between the north and south, and complex climate conditions, which require higher adaptability and diversity of seeds. Seeds are like agricultural "chips", and we must fully carry out "bottleneck" technology research and development, deeply implement seed industry revitalization actions, accelerate the cultivation of excellent varieties with independent intellectual property rights, and fully guarantee national food security from the source. Secondly, we need to tap into potential and utilize technology and scale to empower. The way to increase grain yield is to use technology to give wings to agriculture, open up channels for technology to enter villages and households, accelerate the cultivation of new professional farmers, improve land output rate, resource utilization rate, labor productivity, and enhance the level of agricultural mechanization, informatization, and standardization. The cultivation of individual households has the characteristic of "small and comprehensive", while moderate scale management has the characteristic of "large and capable". We should adhere to the principle of "suitable for large and suitable for small", and leverage the advantages of various forms of scale management in achieving agricultural intensification, industrialization, and modernization. Finally, we need to strengthen our responsibilities and give full play to the guiding and regulatory role of policies and systems. The central and local governments should jointly shoulder the heavy responsibility of stabilizing national food security, strictly assess the responsibility system for food security, truly achieve equal responsibility between the Party and the government, and implement the principle of sharing rice bowls and responsibilities in the main production areas, main sales areas, and production sales balance areas; It is equally important to ensure that the "rice bags" of citizens are sufficient and that the "money bags" of farmers are prosperous. We will increase the construction of the grain monitoring and early warning system, promote the combination of physical reserves and production capacity reserves, improve the mechanism for ensuring the income of grain farmers and the compensation mechanism for the interests of main production areas, so that the increase in grain production and income of farmers can go hand in hand, and enhance the resilience and stability of grain supply while protecting the comprehensive production capacity of grain and mobilizing the enthusiasm of farmers.

2. Adhere to the principle of quantity and quality, and work together to achieve a good job in serving the rice bowl

To achieve national food security, it is necessary to have the ability to ensure both sufficient food supply and adequate nutrition. As for China, after entering a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the people's longing for a better life is directly reflected in the shift from "eating enough" to "eating well" in their three meals a day, with more diverse demands for the structure and quality of food. Moreover, in today's increasingly deepening economic globalization and more convenient world trade, no country can resist the impact of the international food market, nor can it close its doors to prevent the overflow of basic needs of the people. Therefore, higher requirements are put forward to ensure national food security. Food production must keep pace with the times and increase its competitiveness to prevent the problem of people's food from being controlled by others, and to remain invincible in the world's unprecedented great changes.

Adhering to the principle of both quantity and quality is to ensure that the people can eat well and fully. To always ensure a good job in China, efforts need to be made from multiple aspects: firstly, to change our mindset and establish a big food concept.Secondly, we need to adapt to local conditions and optimize the production structure. Adhering to the concept of big food means practicing the concept of big agriculture, timely grasping the new characteristics and trends of changes in the food structure of the people, combining their respective geographical resources and endowment conditions, suitable for grain, suitable for economy, suitable for pasture, suitable for fishing, suitable for forest, and comprehensively ensuring the effective supply of meat, vegetables, fruits, and aquatic products in improving the modern agricultural production structure and optimizing the production layout of various regions. We must deepen management and ensure quality and safety. The quality and safety of agricultural products are the minimum requirements for serving a good job, while food quality and safety are both produced and regulated. We need to improve a unified and authoritative agricultural product safety supervision institution, enhance the quality and safety supervision capacity of grassroots agricultural products, improve the traceability system and quality labeling system of agricultural product origin, and strengthen the connection system between origin approval and market access. We need to build a brand to meet diverse needs. Adhere to promoting agriculture with quality, and embark on a connotative development path of high-quality, branded, and distinctive development. Agricultural products cannot stop at the backward state of scattered sales in the fields and beside the roads. Instead, we should attach importance to the combination of production and sales, balance nutrition and preferences, and strive to ensure high yield and quality. We should expand the innovation chain, industry chain, and value chain of food production, so that agricultural product sales can be improved towards organization, marketization, and specialization, continuously improving the market competitiveness and even international competitiveness of agricultural specialty products, thereby stabilizing the overall situation, adapting to the situation, and opening up new opportunities, and promoting China's comprehensive transformation from an agricultural country to an agricultural powerhouse.

3. Adhere to the production ecology and work together to secure the middle end of the rice bowl

Adhering to the principle of promoting production ecology together is the basic guarantee for securing employment through our own efforts. China, with 9% of the world's arable land and 6% of freshwater resources, produces 25% of the world's food, feeds nearly 20% of the world's population, creates a human miracle, ensures national food security, and also bears enormous pressure on ecological protection. At the same time, "mountains, waters, forests, fields, lakes, grasses, and sands are a community of life", "the lifeline of human beings lies in the fields, the lifeline of fields lies in water, the lifeline of water lies in mountains, the lifeline of mountains lies in soil, and the lifeline of soil lies in forests and grasses". This community of life is the material foundation for ensuring national food security and sustainable human development. Food security and ecological security complement each other, promoting production and protecting the environment. Because agricultural production is greatly affected by the climate and environment, as well as easily affecting the ecosystem, it is necessary to account for both economic and immediate costs in food production, as well as ecological and long-term costs. We must never eat the food of our ancestors or cut off the path of our descendants.

Adhering to the principle of promoting production ecology together means ensuring that grain silos are safe and the environment is worry free. To secure a stable job, we should pay attention to the "three combinations": emphasizing the combination of promoting production and preventing pollution. Following the industry background of "relying on nature for food" and leveraging the dynamic effect of "relying on people for food" is beneficial for maintaining a stable job in the long run. Fertile soil is the carrier and matrix for the smooth growth of agricultural products, and a good environment is the foundation and guarantee for the healthy growth of agricultural products. We should not only demand food from existing arable land resources, food from the entire land resources, and reasonably expand the space and fields of agricultural production, but also prevent phenomena such as lake reclamation, sea reclamation, excessive breeding, and overgrazing that disregard resources and environment. We should also strengthen the control of agricultural non-point source pollution, promote the reduction of input, clean production, waste resource utilization, and ecological industrial models. That is to say, in fully promoting the increase in grain production and income, we must show a conscious awareness of protecting our eyes and a firm determination to cherish life to protect the ecological environment, actively prevent problems such as excessive development, resource overdraft, soil erosion, soil degradation, and pollution expansion, and resolutely eliminate the wrong practices of neglecting one aspect and losing the other, overestimating grain, and seeking quick success and instant benefits. We must firmly hold onto the upper line of resource utilization, the bottom line of environmental quality, and the red line of ecological protection, and use the subsidy policy for fallow rotation, ecological protection compensation mechanism, and environmental pollution conviction and sentencing standards to protect production and greenery. Emphasize the combination of increasing production and reducing losses. Guarding the tangible and intangible grain fields is a powerful measure to secure China's rice bowl and maintain world food security. China loses and wastes over 22.7% of its food every year, about 920 billion pounds. If half of the losses can be recovered, it will be enough for 190 million people to eat for a year. Reducing losses is also the most direct way to increase production. To prevent food harvesting, storage, transportation, processing, sales, and consumption from leaking out. We should work hard at the same time to ensure "safety on the tip of the tongue" and guard against "waste on the tip of the tongue", adhere to the "Clean Your Plate Campaign", promote healthy diet, establish a frugal trend, improve the concept of civilization, and mobilize the whole society to consciously promote food production and reduce losses, and jointly maintain the ecological environment. Emphasize the combination of self centeredness and appropriate imports. Emphasizing the need to rely on one's own strength to secure a stable job does not mean that all food needs of the people are fully met by one's own strength, nor does it mean that there is no need to play the role of the international trade market to complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. Under the fundamental policy of ensuring basic self-sufficiency of grains and absolute food security, the moderate utilization of foreign resources and the appropriate import of certain foods are conducive to balancing the contradiction between food supply and demand and meeting the diverse needs of the people, as well as promoting the recuperation and sustainable development of farmland and agriculture. In adhering to the principle of independence and self-reliance, and scientifically promoting the spirit of self-reliance, China will accelerate the construction of a higher level, higher quality, more efficient, and more sustainable path to food security with Chinese characteristics.