Deputies to the National People's Congress offer advice and suggestions for legislating to stop food waste--
Comprehensive management of "waste on the tip of the tongue"
General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions to stop food waste has aroused heated discussion among the NPC deputies. Everyone said that the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping have pointed out the direction and provided follow-up for accelerating the legislative process of preventing food waste. The rule of law is an important way to solve food waste and establish a new style of economy. The delegates suggested that the responsibilities of relevant subjects should be clarified, a civilized, healthy, and scientific diet culture and eating habits should be actively promoted, comprehensive management should be implemented, and the establishment of a sound legal system to promote the prevention and control of food waste and promote food conservation should be accelerated.
Elevate mature practices to law
"Food security is an important foundation for national development, social stability, and national security." Shang Jinsuo, a deputy to the National People's Congress who has worked in the grain depot for more than 40 years and director of the Hebei Baixiang National Grain Reserve Depot, has been paying attention to food security issues. “Strict economy against food waste is an important measure to promote the traditional virtues of diligence and thrift of the Chinese nation, and it is also an urgent need to ensure national food security. Strengthen publicity and education, strengthen legislative guarantees, and establish a long-term mechanism to stop food waste by means of ethics and the rule of law. It is imminent and imperative." Shang Jinsuo said that to strengthen the education of loving food and saving food, we must start with the baby and effectively cultivate the habit of saving. It is necessary to systematically summarize the good experiences and practices of various localities in rectifying the phenomenon of catering waste since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and through legislation to upgrade practices that have been proven in practice to a legal system, strengthen law enforcement, rigidly honor rewards and punishments, and create a " The strong atmosphere of cherishing the glory of food and shameful waste of food will further deepen the work of preventing food waste.
Zhao Wanping, deputy dean of the National People’s Congress and deputy dean of the Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences, believes that although what to eat and how much to eat is a personal right, if a large amount of waste of resources is generated, it will consume social costs and threaten public interests. Incorporate into the legal level of regulation. Legislation must be adopted to create an atmosphere for the prevention and control of food waste, and the concept of food conservation must be deeply rooted in consumers.
Let management and rectification have laws to follow
"The warehouse is solid and the world is safe. Food is related to the national movement and people's livelihood, and food security is an important foundation for national security. Conserving food cannot be just a simple slogan. It should be reviewed from the height of national strategic security." National People's Congress Representative, Fujian Normal University Professor Huang Maoxing, Dean of the School of Economics, suggested: First, step by step to promote the legislative process of saving food and preventing food waste. Comprehensively sort out China’s current laws and regulations related to food conservation and stop food waste, conduct in-depth research and demonstration, and make specific and clear regulations on food saving and stop food waste through a variety of legislative forms at the national and local levels. Grain food production, storage, sales, and consumption are strengthened to effectively reduce loss and waste. The second is to improve restraint measures and disciplinary mechanisms. Define various behaviors of wasting food and extravagant consumption, and formulate penal measures, so that the management and remediation of regulators can be followed by rules and laws. At the same time, it actively promoted the introduction of supporting policies and measures such as strengthening food conservation, stopping food waste, and launching CD-ROM operations throughout the country to comprehensively control the undesirable phenomenon of "waste on the tip of the tongue". The third is to implement comprehensive policies to promote the formation of a good consumption atmosphere. The vitality of the law lies in its implementation. It is necessary to comprehensively use laws, publicity and education and other methods to improve the quality of the people, advocate the formation of a good social atmosphere that saves food for all, and eliminates food waste, and ultimately form a benign consumption habit.
Food is the top priority for the people, and catering involves everyone. Stopping food waste is a matter of changing customs. "In the legislative process, we should fully solicit opinions from all parties, including catering service operators, consumers, take-out platforms, etc., to fully pool everyone's wisdom, and combine top-level design with the people." National People's Congress representative, Jilin Said Gu Fengjie, party branch secretary of Sandaohezi Village, Dashitou Town, Dunhua City.
Standardize the whole process of grain production and circulation
"Party and government agencies, state-owned enterprises and institutions should lead by example and consciously resist extravagance and waste." Fang Yan, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice chairman of the Shaanxi Lawyers Association, said that in addition to food waste, we must also attach great importance to food purchase, processing, transportation, storage, etc. The waste of links. In order to reduce waste, save grain, and standardize grain production, transportation and storage management, it is recommended to increase the investment in rural grain storage technology, use scientific and technological means to intervene in every aspect of grain circulation, and steadily promote the progress of my country's storage and transportation technology. Supervise relevant departments and enterprises to strictly enforce food processing standards, formulate reward and punishment systems for enterprises related to food production, transportation, and storage, and include the amount of food loss into the enterprise assessment targets.
Jiang Ming, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Tianming Group, said that we must use practical actions to practice the concept of saving food and eliminating waste. "To legislate to stop food waste, it is necessary to institutionalize the good experience and practices that have existed in various localities and departments to make it more rigid and binding, and become a rule that the whole society follows." Jiang Ming said.
Our reporter Xu Jun