(Observation of the Two Sessions) Why does Xi Jinping answer "Who will feed China" again?

　　China News Agency, Beijing, March 7th: Why does Xi Jinping answer "Who will feed China"?

　　China News Agency reporter Ma Xueling and Huang Yuqin

　　Who will feed China?

　　This is an issue that the world has been paying attention to.

China's arable land only accounts for 9% of the world's total, yet it has to feed nearly 20% of the world's population.

　　This is also an issue that Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission has always been concerned about, and he has talked about it many times on different occasions.

　　On the afternoon of March 6, Xi Jinping answered this question when he visited the members of the agricultural sector, social welfare and social security sectors who participated in the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference - "China must rely on self-reliance and support itself!"

　　This time, why does Xi Jinping answer "Who will feed China"?

　　"Don't expect to rely on the international market to solve the problem," Xi Jinping said bluntly, especially with regard to the argument that "planting is worse than buying", "It is very easy to say. The land is not planted with soybeans, corn, or cotton now, and the international market will not be good at that time. Let's plant it again, it's easier said than done! Can we turn it over in three or five years?"

　　There has always been uncertainty in the international food market, especially since the COVID-19 outbreak, the food crisis has become the focus of global public opinion from time to time.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has warned that severe global food insecurity has soared to the highest level in five years.

　　Food security is the "bigger of the country", and it is related to the jobs of China's more than 1.4 billion people.

"There must be no slack in food security." Xi Jinping has often warned and warned over the years.

　　In all things, eating is the biggest.

With a population of more than 1.4 billion, China consumes 700,000 tons of grain, 98,000 tons of oil, 1.92 million tons of vegetables and 230,000 tons of meat every day. It's a matter of strategy.

　　"A very important reason why our country can achieve social stability and peace of mind is that we have food in our hands and do not panic." Xi Jinping said.

　　However, looking at the vast grain fields, some phenomena are heartbreaking.

Some did not have the responsibility of carrying vegetable baskets and rice bags, and in some places falsified the balance of arable land occupation and compensation... Combing them one by one, Xi Jinping looked solemn.

　　"Chinese people haven't been hungry for a few days? That is, these children born after the 1980s. Who hasn't been hungry in the past? But people are prone to forgetfulness." Misunderstanding, warning "industrialization must not become grain-free", cultivated land is the lifeblood of grain production and the foundation of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.

　　"Farmland is farmland, and farmland must be fertile land. No one is allowed to play tricks or tricks in the protection of cultivated land, 'it doesn't hurt to sell the farmland'." Xi Jinping, who has experienced the poor days on the yellow land in northern Shaanxi, said.

　　The 1.8 billion mu of arable land is the red line, the strategic bottom line, and the safety line related to the lifeline of the country.

　　Through Xi Jinping's answer to "who will feed China", the outside world can clearly hear that "a big country like us must rely on itself."

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