China News Service, Beijing, February 3rd. The No. 1 Central Document of 2024 ("Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Learning and Applying the Experience of the "Thousand Village Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" Project to Effectively and Effectively Promote Comprehensive Rural Revitalization") was officially released on the 3rd. The document focuses on national food security and sets the goal of ensuring that grain output remains above 1.3 trillion kilograms.
The document calls for ensuring national food security, focusing on the production of grain and important agricultural products, solidly promoting a new round of actions to increase grain production capacity of 100 billion kilograms, stabilizing grain sowing area, focusing on increasing grain production on large areas to increase unit yields, and ensuring that grain output remains the same. More than 1.3 trillion catties.
The document proposes to implement a grain yield improvement project, consolidate the results of soybean expansion, and support the development of high-oil and high-yielding varieties. Appropriately increase the minimum purchase price of wheat and reasonably determine the minimum purchase price of rice. We will continue to implement the policies of farmland fertility protection subsidies, corn and soybean producer subsidies, and rice subsidies.
The document proposes to strictly implement the cultivated land protection system, improve the "three-in-one" protection system of cultivated land quantity, quality, and ecology, and implement the clear tasks of protecting cultivated land and permanent basic farmland in the new round of land spatial planning. Strengthen the management of degraded cultivated land, increase the promotion of black soil protection projects, and implement actions to improve the organic matter of cultivated land. Strictly crack down on illegal occupation of agricultural land and illegal soil extraction from cultivated land. Promote the use of abandoned land according to local conditions, and support rural collective economic organizations in multiple ways to plant and utilize the land that is suitable for grain and economic development.
The document proposes to strengthen the construction of agricultural infrastructure and give priority to turning cultivated land in northeastern black soil areas, plain areas, and areas with water conservancy and irrigation conditions into high-standard farmland. Strengthen agricultural science and technology support, accelerate the revitalization of the seed industry, increase research on key core technologies of provenance, and speed up the breeding, promotion and production of urgently needed independent excellent varieties.
The document proposes to enhance the ability to control grain and important agricultural products, optimize the layout of grain storage facilities, and improve the level of reserve safety. We will continue to deepen various food conservation actions, promote food conservation and loss reduction throughout the chain, improve normalized and long-term working mechanisms, vigorously promote healthy eating, and resolutely stop food waste. (over)