Guarantee the food supply and secure the rice bowl of China (People's Viewpoint)
——Energetic efforts to speed up the construction of a strong agricultural country②
The basic status of agriculture cannot be ignored or weakened at any time. It is true at any time to have food in your hands and not panic in your heart
Always tighten the string of food security, firmly grasp the initiative of food security, and strive to build a higher level, higher quality, more efficient and more sustainable food security system
Hekou District, Dongying City, Shandong Province is located at the mouth of the Yellow River, with 697,200 mu of saline-alkali land.
In recent years, relying on scientific and technological innovation, the local area has made great efforts in cultivating improved varieties and planting in saline-alkali land to build a national-level demonstration zone for the application of saline-alkali-tolerant seed industry. The new soybean variety "Qihuang 34" achieved an average yield of 329.3 kg per mu.
The combination of good seeds and good methods, the integration of agricultural machinery and agronomy, and scientific and technological farming have provided strong support for the stable production and supply of grain, and made life more and more prosperous for the villagers.
Food security is the "biggest country".
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the Central Rural Work Conference: "Guaranteeing the stable and safe supply of food and important agricultural products is always the top priority in building a strong agricultural country." For a large country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, national food security is achieved. Economic development, social stability, and national security have the foundation; the basic position of agriculture cannot be ignored or weakened at any time, and it is true at any time to have food in hand and not to panic.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, all regions and departments have taken ensuring the supply of important agricultural products, especially grain, as their top priority. stable.
Grain output has stood at 1.3 trillion catties for 8 consecutive years. Grain is basically self-sufficient, rations are absolutely safe, and the supply of grain and important agricultural products is stable... The hard-won harvest answer sheet is the result of multiple factors such as good policies, strong technology, and human efforts. result of the action.
In his New Year's message in 2023, President Xi Jinping pointed out: "In the face of the global food crisis, my country's grain production has achieved 'Nineteen Consecutive Harvests', and the Chinese people's rice bowls have become more secure."
Today, we have firmly grasped the initiative in food security, and the road to food security with Chinese characteristics has become more and more stable.
But we should also be soberly aware that at present, the century-old changes and the century-old epidemic are intertwined, and the uncertain risks of the global grain industry chain and supply chain have increased. my country's grain production and demand will remain in a tight balance for a long period of time in the future.
At the same time, with the high-quality development of my country's economy and the advancement of urbanization, the demand for grain and other important agricultural products is still showing a rigid growth trend, and the pressure and task of ensuring national food security are even greater.
Facing the future, we must take precautions, always tighten the string of food security, firmly grasp the initiative of food security, and strive to build a higher-level, higher-quality, more efficient and more sustainable food security system. The certainty of stable production and supply to deal with the uncertainty of the external environment.
It is necessary to put the improvement of comprehensive agricultural production capacity in a more prominent position, and firmly grasp the two key points of cultivated land and seeds.
Cultivated land is the lifeblood of food production.
my country's arable land is not rich, accounting for 9% of the world's arable land, feeding nearly 20% of the world's population, the tense relationship between man and land is a basic national condition.
Resolutely hold the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land, and gradually build all the permanent basic farmland into high-standard farmland, so that the limited cultivated land resources can be fully utilized.
Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture.
The progress of my country's agricultural science and technology is obvious to all, but there are also shortcomings, the biggest of which is seeds.
The safety of seed sources is related to national security. Only by making up our minds to develop my country's seed industry can we realize the self-reliance and self-improvement of seed industry technology, and the self-control of seed sources.
On the new journey, we must thoroughly implement the strategy of storing grain on the ground and storing grain on technology, implement the most stringent arable land protection system, and fight for a turnaround in the seed industry, so as to continuously consolidate the material foundation of grain production and continue to consolidate and improve grain production capacity.
To ensure food supply, efforts should be made to mobilize the "two enthusiasms" of farmers and the government.
To develop grain production, the main body is the grain farmers.
In recent years, from the implementation of policies such as national rice subsidies, one-time subsidies to farmers who actually grow grain, and agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, to steadily increasing the minimum purchase price of rice and wheat, to promoting the full cost insurance and planting income insurance of the three major staple foods Full coverage of large grain-producing counties... A series of good policies have entered the villages and farms, stabilized expectations, increased profits, and stimulated farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain.
In all things leisurely, eating is the most important thing.
Guaranteeing food security is everyone's responsibility, and the party and the government must share the same responsibility to truly bear fruit.
Strict assessment and urging all localities to truly shoulder the responsibility of ensuring food security can better stabilize the "ballast stone" of food security.
On the new journey, we need to improve the income guarantee mechanism for grain farmers, improve the compensation mechanism for the interests of major production areas, ensure reasonable income for grain farmers, fully implement the shared responsibility of the party and the government for food security, and firmly hold the rice bowl of the Chinese people in our own hands.
Reducing food loss is an important way to ensure food security.
According to the statistics of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the annual loss of global food from production to retail accounts for about 14% of the world's food production.
In my country, if grain production is only reduced by 1 percentage point in the "three summers" wheat machine-harvesting link, 2.5 billion catties of grain can be recovered.
Reducing losses means increasing production, and reducing consumption means increasing income.
The "Food Conservation Action Plan" issued by the Central Committee and the State Council clearly states that by 2025, the measures for food conservation and loss reduction in all links of the entire grain industry chain will be more hardened and refined, and the promotion of food conservation and loss reduction will achieve more obvious results.
At the same time, it is necessary to establish a big food concept, build a diversified food supply system, and develop food sources through multiple channels.
On the new journey, we must work hard at both ends of increasing production and reducing losses, continue to promote various actions for food conservation, and continuously improve the level of food security.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to "tamp the foundation of food security in an all-round way".
Based on our own efforts to do a good job in agricultural production, resolutely build a solid line of defense for national food security, and consolidate the foundation of food security in an all-round way, we will surely make the "Chinese rice bowl" fuller, more secure, and better in quality, and build a solid foundation for stabilizing the overall economic and social situation Solid foundation.
(People's Daily People's Daily Commentary Department)