China News Service, Beijing, December 29 (Reporter Chen Su) The Central Rural Work Conference was held in Beijing from the 28th to the 29th, arranging key tasks in the "three rural" areas in 2021 and putting forward "hard requirements" for food security.

　　The meeting proposed that the initiative in food security must be firmly held and that food production must be stepped up every year.

　　To achieve this goal and task, the meeting put forward a number of specific supporting measures.

　　Regarding arable land, the meeting proposed to strictly guard against the red line of 1.8 billion mu of arable land, take hard measures to grow teeth, and implement the strictest arable land protection system.

It is necessary to build high-standard farmland to truly achieve guaranteed yields in droughts and floods, and high and stable yields.

It is necessary to take the protection of black land as a major issue and make good use of black land to raise it.

　　In the context of increasing scarcity of arable land resources, the conference particularly emphasized related measures to improve agricultural science and technology and "harvesting food in technology", and proposed to insist on self-reliance and self-reliance in agricultural science and technology, and accelerate the advancement of key agricultural technologies.

　　The meeting also proposed to mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers to grow grain, stabilize and strengthen subsidies for grain farmers, improve the ability to regulate and control purchases and storage, adhere to and improve the minimum purchase price policy, and expand the full cost and income insurance coverage.

Local governments must shoulder the political responsibility for food security and implement the same responsibility of the party and government.

It is necessary to deepen the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, promote the cultivation of varieties, the improvement of quality, brand building and standardized production.

We must continue to focus on the recovery of live pig production and promote the stable development of the industry.

Support enterprises to go global.

We must persevere to stop food waste.

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