The Spring Festival is approaching, and the New Year's market is very busy.

　　A few days ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Tianjin Ancient Culture Street and walked into the "time-honored" brands such as Guifaxiang 18th Street Mahua and Guoren Zhang. He asked about the varieties, customer flow, and prices. He even bought a few boxes of Mahua and chestnut soup. , gave two boxes to a little boy next to me. Xi Jinping said that party committees and governments at all levels should strengthen the production, sales and supply of people's livelihood commodities during the festival to ensure sufficient quantity, rich categories and reliable quality, so that the general public can consume with confidence and celebrate the New Year happily.

　　Buying new year's goods is the "biggest event" for Chinese people during the New Year, especially "vegetable baskets", "rice bags" and "fruit plates", which are the most indispensable consumer goods among people's various expenditures during the Spring Festival. The twelfth lunar month is the peak period for buying new year's goods. The stocking volume of daily necessities in large wholesale markets and chain supermarkets will increase significantly compared with normal days.

　　The shelves of large stores and small shops are connected to the most basic people's livelihood.

　　The supply of new year's goods has always been Xi Jinping's "special concern." During his first pre-Spring Festival inspection after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he went to Wuquan Vegetable Market in Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, and asked, "Have vegetable prices increased?" and "Are there many local dishes?" In front of several stalls, he learned in detail Prices of cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, onions and other vegetables. Hearing that vegetable prices were stable, Xi Jinping nodded.

　　In recent years, Xi Jinping has often visited markets, supermarkets, and stores before the Spring Festival to check market supply, supply and sales of new year goods, and price movements. From the Aimin Community Supermarket in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, to the New Year Shopping Expo in Kunming, Yunnan, to the specialty shops in the ancient city of Pingyao, Shanxi, Xi Jinping’s “New Year footprints” have been left in many places.

From February 1 to 2, 2024, Xi Jinping came to Tianjin to visit and express condolences to grassroots cadres and the masses. The picture shows that on the afternoon of the 1st, while inspecting Tianjin Ancient Culture Street, Xi Jinping walked into a store and interacted with the people on site. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi

　　At the end of July and early August last year, extreme rainfall in North China triggered severe floods in the Haihe River Basin. Liubu Village, Xinkou Town, Xiqing District, Tianjin City, was also hit by the disaster. At that time, the water depth was 2.51 meters, and more than 2,000 vegetable greenhouses in the village were flooded. Before the Spring Festival this year, Xi Jinping visited Liubu Village to see the restoration of these greenhouses and understand the situation of local agricultural production restoration.

　　This is one of the vegetable bases in Tianjin. Seeing the General Secretary, the villagers were excited and moved. They introduced their vegetable plots one by one. "Special thanks to the party and the government for repairing the greenhouses, replanting and replanting, and production was quickly resumed."

　　Xi Jinping held the hand of a farmer: "We should thank you for your hard work and enriching the 'vegetable basket' for the Spring Festival."

From February 1 to 2, 2024, Xi Jinping came to Tianjin to visit and express condolences to grassroots cadres and the masses. The picture shows on the morning of the 1st, when Xi Jinping was inspecting the recovery of local agricultural production after last year's flood disaster in Liubu Village, Xinkou Town, Xiqing District, he walked into a greenhouse and had a cordial exchange with vegetable farmers. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng

　　Food is food to safety first. Xi Jinping has always been concerned about food safety issues.

　　On February 4, 2021, Xi Jinping came to the Heli Huimin Fresh Supermarket in Guanshanhu District, Guiyang, Guizhou. In the cooked food area, he warned: "Be sure to pay attention to food hygiene, mark the production date, and do not sell expired food." In the cold fresh food area, he asked about the cold chain storage and transportation situation, and asked for measures to be taken for the cold fresh meat that was not sold that day. Corresponding disposal measures.

　　On January 18, 2023, Xi Jinping cordially visited and expressed condolences to the merchants left behind at the Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market in Beijing and the people purchasing new year goods via video. He said that during the New Year and holidays, safety should not be forgotten. The wholesale market must not only work hard to expand supply sources, enrich varieties, and ensure quality, but also work hard to strengthen food testing and market management, so that citizens in the capital can eat with confidence and comfort.

　　Also approaching the Spring Festival, when inspecting dairy companies in Inner Mongolia, Xi Jinping emphasized that food companies should produce high-quality, safe food to ensure "safety on the tip of the people's tongues." When inspecting infant dairy production companies in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, he emphasized food safety Four "strict"s are mentioned in a row: the most stringent standards, the strictest supervision, the most severe penalties, the most serious accountability...

　　Only when the country is peaceful and the people are safe can the country be peaceful. Not long ago, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Notice on Doing Relevant Work During the New Year's Day and Spring Festival in 2024", requiring "implementation of the equal responsibilities of the party and government for food security and the mayor's responsibility system for the 'vegetable basket', and strengthening the supply of grain, oil, meat, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, fungi, etc." "Guarantee the production, sale and supply of important people's livelihood commodities" to ensure that thousands of households can eat "affordable vegetables", "safe meat" and "fresh fruits" during the Spring Festival.

　　China has a population of more than 1.4 billion, and each mouth 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. While ensuring food supply, we must also ensure the effective supply of meat, vegetables, fruits, aquatic products and other types of food, without any of them. The stability of the "vegetable basket", "rice bag" and "fruit plate" involves the "small ledger" of thousands of households, and it is also related to the "big ledger" of governing the country.

　　Text/Jingxuan

　　Editor/Zhong Qi, Jiuduan

　　Data source/People’s Daily, Qiushi.com, etc.