"Shocking and distressing!" Facing the phenomenon of food waste, General Secretary Xi Jinping recently issued important instructions, emphasizing on creating an atmosphere of shame for waste and pride in economy.
Hard work, diligence and thrift are the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary has repeatedly emphasized the need to stop food waste on various occasions.
"Frugality, virtue is common; extravagance, evil is also great." The general secretary knows and goes far.
Set an example
"Who knows that Chinese food is hard." General Secretary Xi Jinping quoted ancient poems in his recent instructions, stating that every grain of grain is hard to come by.
Xi Jinping, who has gone through poor days and walked through the years of "not having enough food and being hungry", has developed the quality of diligence, thrift and simplicity very early.
Xi Jinping once wrote in a letter to his father Xi Zhongxun: "I hope to inherit and learn from my father a lot of precious and noble qualities." In Xi Jinping's eyes, "Father's frugality is almost harsh. The strictness of family education is also well known. We have cultivated the habit of diligence and frugality when we were young under the education of our father."
Xi Jinping has been practicing thrifty and thrifty, opposing waste, and the frugal qualities formed by his father's words and deeds.
"Great Change-Large-scale Exhibition to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up" once exhibited Xi Jinping's dinner menu and other bills when he visited Fuping County, Hebei Province in 2012. Xi Jinping ate the standard "four dishes and one soup": braised local chicken Chunk, Fuping stewed vegetables, fried pork belly with garlic sprouts, patted garlic and chrysanthemum, winter melon meatball soup.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's dinner menu (copy) when he visited Fuping County, Hebei Province in 2012 (picture from "China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News")
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary has set an example. When investigating and investigating in various places, the fresh and frugal wind has always followed him. He ate a buffet when he went to Guangdong for investigation and work, and he ate big pot choi when he went to Hebei for investigation. Rice, pumpkin soup, Guanyin dishes, fried bamboo shoots, etc., return to Liangjiahe, and eat buckwheat glutinous rice, steamed bun, hemp soup rice with the folks...
If you ask others to do it, do it yourself. Xi Jinping took the lead in setting an example and doing his own work, and made comments to curb "waste on the tip of the tongue."
Instruct deployment
In response to leading by example and advocating economy, the general secretary has repeatedly emphasized the prevention of food waste.
In January 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave instructions on a Xinhua News Agency's "Netizens Call for the Containment of "Tongue Waste" in the Food and Beverage Links", pointing out that from the situation reflected in the article, the waste in the food and beverage links is shocking. The majority of cadres and the masses strongly reacted to various wastes such as food waste, especially public funds waste. Reminiscing that there are still a large number of people in difficulties in our country, the serious existence of various wastes is very sad. The wind of waste must be braked hard!
At that time, it was the second month after the eight central regulations were promulgated. The general secretary pointed out in the instructions that all levels of party, government and military agencies, institutions, people’s organizations, state-owned enterprises, and leading cadres at all levels must set an example, strictly implement the official reception system, strictly implement various economic measures, and resolutely eliminate public funds. Waste phenomenon.
Subsequently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a notice stating that all regions and departments must fully understand the importance and urgency of brutal waste, and take effective measures to implement the important instructions of Comrade Xi Jinping. In November of the same year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Regulations for Party and Government Organs to Strictly Save and Oppose Waste," to curb the trend of extravagance and waste from the source.
In addition, the General Secretary has issued important instructions many times, requiring rigid system constraints, strict system implementation, strong supervision and inspection, and severe punishment mechanisms to effectively curb various violations of regulations, disciplines and laws in the consumption of public funds, and target some schools There are food waste and students' lack of awareness of frugality. It puts forward clear requirements for strengthening guidance and management, and cultivating students' good virtues of diligence and frugality.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, as various regions and departments have implemented the spirit of Jinping’s important instructions and adopted measures such as issuing relevant documents and launching the "CD Action", the phenomenon of "tip of waste" has changed. Waste of public catering has been effectively curbed. At the same time, food waste in some places still exists.
(Picture from Xinhua News Agency)
In recent days, the General Secretary once again criticized the "food waste" and stood at the height of ensuring national food security. Relevant departments are implementing the spirit of Jinping's important instructions, formulating and implementing more powerful measures, and pushing the whole society to advance the work of preventing food waste.
Stay in peace
In recent important instructions, Xi Jinping pointed out that although my country’s grain production has been harvesting year after year, it is still necessary to have crisis awareness on food security. The impact of the global new crown pneumonia epidemic this year has sounded a wake-up call for us.
Since the grain production has been harvested year after year and the people have a good food and clothing, why should we emphasize the establishment of crisis awareness and repeatedly sound the alarm to eliminate waste?
In December 2013, Xi Jinping gave an example at the Central Rural Work Conference: “The media reported that there are often white-flowered buns and rice in the trash can of a university canteen. The cleaner looked at heartache and picked it up before eating. In this regard There are many examples. Some university canteens have become'paradise' for wasting food, which is shocking!"
The waste of university cafeterias may seem small, but for a large country with a population of 1.4 billion, any small waste is a staggering number. According to previous data estimates, my country’s annual losses and waste caused by grain storage, transportation and processing alone are as high as 70 billion jin. The consumption link of the table is even more important. In 2015, the research team of the Chongqing Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics wrote "China's Food Supply and Demand and the Trend Forecast during the 13th Five-Year Plan" period. According to estimates, in the consumption link, the total amount of food wasted every year in the country is equivalent to food About 100 billion catties can support the needs of about 350 million people a year.
From July 22 to 24, 2020, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission visited Jilin Province. This is the afternoon of July 22. Xi Jinping walked into the corn field to observe the growth of corn in the core demonstration area of the national million acres of green food raw material (corn) standardized production base in Lishu County, Siping City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ye
"Hong Fan's eight political affairs, food is the political leader." Food security is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Behind the successive bumper harvests and self-sufficiency is that my country's grain consumption is still growing faster than the increase in output, and grain production and consumption have been in a "tight balance" state for a long time. Therefore, we must always have a crisis awareness of food security. As the general secretary said: "Even if life is getting better every day, there is no right to waste! The bad trend of wasting food must be resolutely stopped!"
Looking at the current international environment, since the end of last year, locust plagues have occurred one after another in many parts of the world, causing disasters to East Africa, the Middle East, and India. There are also severe natural disasters such as the Australian wildfire, which has increased the uncertainty of the global supply of agricultural products and caused fluctuations in the food market. This year the epidemic has caused a full impact on global food production and demand.
"It is not a cliché to oppose food waste. The international epidemic continues to spread and unstable and uncertain factors have increased significantly. It is full of profound meaning. It fully reflects the Party Central Committee’s awareness of danger in times of peace and the strategic foresight to plan ahead. We need to deeply understand and accurately grasp it. , Do it by yourself.” Professor Wang Tingyou of the School of Marxism at Renmin University of China pointed out in an interview with a reporter from People’s Daily Online and the Communist Party of China News. While paying close attention to agricultural production, striving to increase grain output, and stabilize food prices, the whole society advocates strict economy, The trend of opposing waste has important practical significance. This is not only the need for us to overcome challenges, turn crises into opportunities, and achieve decisive victory in building a well-off society in an all-round way, and decisively fighting poverty alleviation, but also a requirement to promote normalized epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development.
Foresight
Always maintain a sense of crisis for food security, what should we do next? Xi Jinping put forward requirements from two levels, the first is legislation.
The general secretary emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen legislation, strengthen supervision, take effective measures, establish a long-term mechanism, and resolutely stop food waste.
Dai Lixing, director of the Party Building Office of the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, responded to a question from a reporter from People's Daily Online and the Communist Party of China News. We believe that diligence and frugality and opposing waste are what our country has always emphasized. It is also a manifestation of the traditional Chinese virtues, but lacks rigidity. Restricted by laws and regulations, there is a lack of necessary punishment measures. The general secretary emphasized strengthening legislation, strengthening supervision, and establishing a long-term mechanism. The response measures proposed by the General Secretary are also very targeted, and behind it is the high priority of food security and social customs.
"We must vigorously promote the Chinese nation's excellent tradition of diligence and thrift, vigorously promote the ideology of the glory of economy and the shame of waste, and strive to make strict economy and opposing waste a common practice in the whole society." To stop waste, publicity and education are also essential. This is also Xi Jinping's consistent requirement for "stopping food waste"——
In January 2013, Xi Jinping pointed out in his instructions that it is necessary to increase publicity and guidance, vigorously promote the excellent tradition of diligence and thrift of the Chinese nation, vigorously promote the ideological concept of the glory of economy and the shame of waste, and strive to make strict economy and opposing waste a common practice in the whole society. .
The directive specifically requires “to further strengthen publicity and education, effectively cultivate the habit of saving, and create an atmosphere of shame in waste and pride in saving in the whole society.”
In response, Zhu Lijia, a professor at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration), said in an interview with the media that diligence and thrift are the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. "From a certain perspective, wasteful behavior is not a phenomenon that a healthy society should have. ". The central leadership’s attention to unhealthy social phenomena and ethos is conducive to timely correction of related problems.
To practice economy and oppose waste is the responsibility of the whole people and everyone. Strict economy is not only a personal morality, but also a social morality. Frugality, as a traditional virtue and pursuit of value, whether at the national level, social level, or individual level, is the subject of socialist core values.
On October 16, 2018, the No. 3 Kindergarten in the urban area of Dachang Hui Autonomous County, Hebei Province organized an educational activity on the theme of "Caring for Food and Starting from Childhood". Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiaoguo
The "People's Daily" commentary pointed out that to create an atmosphere where waste is shameful and saving is the pride of society, it is necessary to earnestly cultivate the habit of frugality, actively practice a green lifestyle, and vigorously promote the spirit of hard work. Only by vigorously promoting the Chinese nation's excellent tradition of diligence and thrift, and vigorously promoting the ideology of shameful waste and pride in saving, can we treat both the symptoms and the root causes, and make the economy and opposing waste become the consensus and action of the whole society.
Diligence and thrift is our family heirloom, and we can't throw it away at any time. As the General Secretary said: “No matter what level our country has developed, no matter how far the people’s lives are improved, the idea of hard work, hard work and thrift can never be lost. Hard work, hard work and thrift are not only the things that we have grown and developed along the way. An important guarantee is also an important guarantee for us to carry forward the past and create greater glories."
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