[New ideas lead a new journey] Stabilize the fundamentals of agriculture and steadily improve food supply capacity
CCTV news
(news broadcast): General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that ensuring the supply of primary products is a major strategic issue. The Chinese people's rice bowls must be firmly in their hands at all times, and the rice bowls are mainly filled with Chinese grains.
In the new year, various departments across the country will put the improvement of comprehensive agricultural production capacity in a more prominent position, and steadily improve the food supply capacity.
This year is the first year for the implementation of the food security assessment of the party and the government. At the beginning of the new year, all localities have been actively consolidating their responsibilities and accelerating food production.
In Hunan, the local area has maximized the potential of abandoned land by adjusting subsidies and strengthening assessments. In Jiangxi, the provinces, cities, counties, and villages have implemented their responsibilities in grain production. The local winter ploughing has been completed one month earlier than in previous years, and the planned area 19 million mu, an increase of 1 million mu over last year.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that everyone has the responsibility to ensure food security, and the party and government should take the same responsibility.
To ensure food security, the first priority is to protect the area of food.
The central government made it clear that stable production must ensure that the planting area remains stable.
This year, 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland will be built across the country, and all the new high-standard farmland will be used to grow food.
The construction of high-standard farmland in various places has now reached its peak.
In Sichuan, the local government increased investment through various channels such as issuing government special bonds and integrating funds for agriculture-related projects. The construction fund per mu has increased to more than 3,100 yuan, and 4.5 million mu of high-standard farmland will be newly built; in Huoqiu, Anhui, the local construction of high-standard farmland Combined with projects such as comprehensive land improvement in the whole region, a modern agricultural demonstration area with complete infrastructure and strong disaster resistance will be built to ensure that advantageous resources are concentrated in food production.
With the accelerated construction of high-standard farmland, the revitalization of the seed industry is also accelerating. The central government continues to carry out joint research on the breeding of four major grain crops: rice, wheat, corn, and soybean.
In the breeding base of Nanfan Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the breeding of new high-yield and high-quality green corn varieties is accelerating.
The researchers adopted new engineering breeding methods and planted more than 8,000 pure corn lines, advancing the breeding cycle by two to three years.
Affected by the rare autumn flood last year, nearly one-third of the winter wheat seedlings grew significantly weaker, which brought great difficulties to the bumper harvest of summer grains this year.
Just in the past few days, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs organized the launch of the special campaign of "Strengthening Seedlings by Science and Technology", and 350,000 grass-roots agricultural technicians and agricultural technical experts provided timely technical guidance on field management.
Agricultural technicians from Hua County, Henan came to the field to check the pulse for safe wintering of wheat; experts from the national wheat industry technology system in Huantai, Shandong recorded videos and taught online to promote weak seedlings to grow stronger.
To secure the Chinese people's jobs, in the new year, we will refine the assessment of the party and government with the same responsibilities, promote the construction of high-standard farmland, and carry out in-depth implementation of the revitalization of the seed industry. The foundation of my country's comprehensive grain production capacity has been steadily consolidated.