[Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era] Fixing the jobs of 1.4 billion Chinese
CCTV News
(News Broadcast): General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that for a country like ours with a population of 1.4 billion, the basic position of agriculture cannot be ignored or weakened at any time. It is the truth to have food in hand and not panic at all times. .
This year is an extraordinary year in the history of New China.
In the face of risks and challenges, the whole country is united to prevent and control the epidemic to ensure spring plowing, not miss the farming season to grasp production, and persist in fighting disasters and harvesting, providing strong support for maintaining the overall economic and social stability.
In 2020, facing the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and adverse weather, China's grain output hit a record high of 1,339 billion jin, which has stabilized at more than 1,300 billion jin for six consecutive years.
This year’s bumper harvest has not come easily. The sudden outbreak of new crown pneumonia, severe floods in the Yangtze River, and continuous typhoons in the northeast have brought challenges to food and agricultural production.
More than one billion people have to eat, this is the biggest national condition of our country.
On February 25, when the epidemic situation was still severe and complicated, and prevention and control were at the critical stage, the National Spring Agricultural Production Conference was held one month in advance.
General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions that the more risks and challenges we face, the more we must stabilize agriculture, and the more we must ensure the safety of food and important non-staple foods.
Grasp prevention and control with one hand and ensure a bumper harvest with the other.
The State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism included fertilizers and pesticides in the scope of daily material guarantees and included them in the key list of resumption of production and resumption of work, point-to-point guarantees of supply, and clearing of spring plowing and spring management of agricultural materials.
The 285 expert teams and 510,000 grassroots agricultural technicians of the national wheat, rice, and corn industrial technology system answered online and released videos to solve technical problems in time.
The central government invested 4.5 billion yuan to support 45 million acres of land in 29 provinces to carry out production trust services to resolve the urgent needs of small farmers in spring farming, such as lack of manpower and agricultural machinery.
The main producing areas are also responsible for maintaining food security.
A series of unconventional measures were linked together, and the first battle in food production was successful.
Summer grain output increased by 0.9%, reaching 285.6 billion catties, a record high.
In July of this year, the Yangtze River Basin suffered the worst flood disaster since 1998. Farmers, party members, cadres, and volunteers rushed to harvest early rice day and night.
To ensure a bumper harvest, the most important thing is to preserve area.
The key move this year is to increase early rice. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance, will coordinate and integrate more than 4 billion yuan in agricultural project funds to provide strong support.
The area of early rice reached 71.26 million mu, an increase of 6.8%.
Although the yield of early rice has declined, due to the substantial increase in the area, the yield has increased by 3.9% to 54.6 billion catties.
In late July, the main production area of Northeast China entered a critical period of autumn grain production. General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Songliao Plain in Jilin to inspect grain production and learn about agricultural technology research and development and utilization, and black soil protection.
He pointed out that I am very concerned about food production and safety. The overall situation for this year's summer grain harvest has been determined. We must strive for a good harvest in autumn grain.
In late September, the main producing area of Northeast China was in the final ripening period of autumn grain, and suffered continuous typhoons.
Benefiting from the country's continuous improvement of farmland water conservancy facilities, and new varieties of supporting applicable technologies, the overall impact of the disaster was relatively small, and the autumn grain harvest was again good.
The key to ensuring food security lies in implementing the strategy of storing grain on the ground and storing grain on technology.
This year, more than 80 million mu of high-standard farmland was built nationwide; the effective irrigated area of farmland reached about 1.03 billion mu; the northeast black soil conservation farming initiative was launched, and the first batch of pilot areas reached 46.06 million mu.
This year, the contribution rate of agricultural science and technology progress exceeded 60%. Among them, improved varieties contributed the most to the increase in grain production, accounting for 45%; wheat, rice, and corn have basically achieved full mechanization.
Consolidate production foundation and increase comprehensive production capacity.
In such a multi-hazard year where epidemics and disasters are superimposed, my country has achieved a good result of an increase of 10.56 million mu of grain sown area, an increase of 0.9 kg per unit area, and an increase of 11.3 billion jin in output.
The Chinese have their jobs firmly in their hands.