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Xi Jinping: When it comes to food security, we should not be careless in the slightest, and we should not think that the problem of food is dispensable after entering industrialization, and we should not expect to rely on the international market to solve it.

We must plan ahead, always tighten the string of food security, and always insist on focusing on ourselves, based on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and scientific and technological support.

　　This passage comes from a speech made by General Secretary Xi Jinping on March 6, 2022 when he visited members of the agricultural, social welfare and social security circles who participated in the Fifth Session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee.

　　For our country, solving the food problem of more than 1.4 billion people is the top priority of state governance, which is related to the national economy, people's livelihood and national security.

Especially in the context of the current food supply shortage in many parts of the world, it is particularly important to improve domestic food security capabilities.

Only by firmly holding the Chinese people's rice bowl in our own hands, and letting the Chinese rice bowl mainly contain Chinese food, can we deal with various risks and challenges at home and abroad with more confidence.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has attached great importance to the issue of food security and introduced a series of policies and measures to continuously improve my country's food security capabilities.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about China's rice bowl, and has made important instructions many times in 2022 alone.

During the inspection in Sanya, Hainan, the general secretary walked into the Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory and asked the scientific researchers to strive to achieve self-reliance and self-improvement in seed industry technology and self-controllable seed sources.

In Meishan, Sichuan, the general secretary walked into the experimental field to inspect the growth of rice, emphasizing the need to strictly abide by the red line of cultivated land and firmly grasp the grain production.

In the "three summers" season, the general secretary wrote back to the large grain growers in Anhui, encouraging them to actively apply modern agricultural technology and drive the majority of small farmers to grow more grains and grow better grains.

On the occasion of the fifth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival", the general secretary extended festival congratulations and sincere condolences to farmers and "three rural" workers across the country, and asked party committees and governments at all levels to strengthen food security and stabilize agriculture. Basic disk.

　　In 2022, due to the continuous high temperature and drought in the south, the new crown pneumonia epidemic and other factors, my country's grain production will face many challenges.

In this regard, all localities and departments resolutely implemented the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, tried every means to overcome difficulties, and made no slack in grasping food production.

The central government allocates disaster relief funds to support localities in drought relief, autumn grain disaster prevention and stable production.

The water conservancy department urgently dispatched reservoirs in the Yangtze River Basin to supply water to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River to ensure irrigation water for autumn grain crops in arid areas.

Agricultural technology experts from all over the country went to the fields to provide technical guidance for farmers to fight drought, protect seedlings and water-saving irrigation.

Dredging canals, digging wells for irrigation, replanting and replanting...Farmers all over the country actively took measures to ensure irrigation and production.

Thanks to the concerted efforts of many parties, my country has enjoyed a bumper harvest of grain this year, with a total output of 1.37 trillion catties, an increase of 7.4 billion catties or 0.5% over last year. The grain output has remained stable at more than 1.3 trillion catties for eight consecutive years.

　　At any time, we must always tighten the string of food security, and use the certainty of domestic stable production and supply to deal with the uncertainty of the external environment.

All localities should increase their awareness of urgency, maintain strategic focus, consolidate their responsibilities for food production, implement the strategy of "storing grain on the ground, and storing grain on technology", severely crack down on illegal occupation of cultivated land, keep a firm grip on the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land, and accelerate progress High-standard farmland construction, improving the ability of agricultural technology innovation and transformation, strengthening the whole chain of grain saving and loss reduction, so that China's rice bowl will be more secure and the quality will be better.

　　Interpretation of this issue: Chen Ruihai, commentator of CNR