The rice bowl of the Chinese people should be firmly in their own hands at all times
For China, a big country with a population of 1.4 billion, the position of agriculture as the foundation of our economy can never be ignored or weakened. It is always true that we have food in hand and we don't feel nervous. Despite the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic, China's society has remained stable, thanks to the steady supply of food and important agricultural and sideline products.
-- On May 23, 2020, when visiting members of economic circles who attended the third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and attending the joint meeting
To ensure national food security, the Chinese people's rice bowl firmly in their own hands.
-- Report delivered at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 18, 2017
"Hong Fan eight government, food is the first government." China is a large country with a large population. To properly solve the problem of food supply is always the top priority in governing the country. Comrade Mao Zedong said, "Dinner is the first important thing." He that hath food in his hand hath no fear. More than 1.3 billion mouths in our country need to eat. If we don't eat, we can't survive. As long as there are no major problems with food, China's affairs will be stable.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
Our rice bowl should be mainly filled with Chinese grain
Only when a country is basically self-sufficient in food can it grasp the initiative of food security and then control the overall situation of economic and social development. You can't rely on others to feed you. If our rations are imported, we will be led by the nose.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
Our standpoint is that we must never buy or beg for food, and our rice bowls must be mainly filled with grain produced by ourselves.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
The red line for arable land must be strictly guarded
Cultivated land is the lifeblood of grain production. We will strengthen the primary responsibility of local governments, improve land law enforcement and supervision systems and mechanisms, resolutely curb illegal land activities, and firmly uphold the red line for farmland protection.
-- On March 8, 2019, at the deliberation of the Henan delegation at the Second Session of the 13th National People's Congress
Cultivated land is the most precious resource in our country. China has a large population but little land, which determines that we must protect the arable land that is vital to the livelihood of more than one billion people. There must be no mistake. We will implement the strictest possible system for protecting arable land, balance the appropriation and subsidy of arable land in accordance with the law and regulations, promote the transfer of rural land in a standardized and orderly way, and protect arable land like we protect pandas.
-- In 2015, China issued important instructions and emphasized the protection of cultivated land
To mobilize and protect the "two initiatives"
The state should increase support for major grain-producing areas, enhance their ability to develop the economy and increase their fiscal revenue, so as to achieve organic unity between the development of grain production and the enhancement of economic strength in these areas, and to increase grain production and farmers' income in parallel.
-- On July 16, 2015, during an investigation in Jilin
To steadily develop grain production, we must make it profitable for farmers to grow grain and encourage major grain-producing areas to grow grain. In this regard, we need to give full play to the role of market mechanisms and strengthen government support and protection.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
We will do a good job regulating grain reserves
It is a tradition of our country to set up the permanent clearing warehouse, which plays an important role in stabilizing the market, preparing for shortage and subsidizing farmers. China has a vast territory, so it is necessary to store a little more grain reserves and spend a little more money to ensure a higher level of security, but we must also focus on cost-effective, efficient and effective grain reserves. The government can not fully undertake the whole project. We should arouse the enthusiasm of market entities to purchase and store grain and make effective use of social storage facilities for grain storage.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
We must manage and make good use of grain reserves, which will ensure the people's rice bowls. We should not always say that grain reserves are full, but cannot be made available when we really need them. Ancient and modern Chinese and foreign lessons in this respect are much! In the Book of Songs, there is a sentence of "big rat, big rat, have no food my millet". In recent years, there have been a lot of cases in the state grain dears.cases of violation of laws and disciplines must be investigated and dealt with rigorously, and "grain rats" must not be allowed to abuse them.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
The central and local governments are jointly responsible
To ensure national food security, the central government is duty-bound to assume the primary responsibility. The central government will increase support for grain production by building major water conservancy facilities, upgrading low - and medium-yield farmland, promoting scientific and technological innovation, providing IT services, improving the market system, improving the quality and safety of agricultural products, and transferring payments to major producing areas. Local governments at all levels should keep in mind the bigger picture, increase input in grain production, and conscientiously shoulder their responsibility for safeguarding national food security, instead of placing all the burden on the central government.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
Why do we insist on the "rice bag" system of provincial governors taking responsibility? It means that all localities should take action to jointly improve their capacity for grain production, storage and distribution, and effectively protect arable land. Of course, we need to protect the enthusiasm of local governments in grain production, strengthen financial awards and subsidies to major producing provinces and counties, and gradually establish and improve the mechanism of profit compensation for major producing areas to ensure that major grain-producing counties focus on agriculture and develop in real terms. We must not let those who produce more grain suffer more losses.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
Make good use of two markets and two resources
In the domestic food production to ensure grain self-sufficiency, ration under the premise of absolute security, in order to reduce the pressure of domestic agricultural resources and environment, make up the part of the domestic agricultural product supply and demand gap, increasing imports and it is necessary to speed up agricultural go out, but imports should be grasped and rhythm, prevent the impact of domestic production, brings to the farmers' employment and income.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
China's agriculture out of where to go, in what way to develop, how to use the produce of agricultural products and other issues, we should make too detailed research. Import should also pay attention to safety, one is the safety of species, two is not to form a monopoly, the other side of the neck.
-- Speech at the Central Conference on Rural Work on December 23, 2013
Great importance should be attached to grain conservation
Food and beverage waste phenomenon, shocking, painful! "Who knows the food on the plate, every grain is hard." Although China has had bumper harvests in grain production in successive years, we still need to be aware of the crisis of food security. The impact of COVID-19 epidemic in the world this year is a wake-up call for us.
-- A major directive on curbing food and beverage waste will be issued in August 2020
The wind of waste must be hard brake! We should intensify publicity and guidance, carry forward the fine tradition of thrift of the Chinese nation, publicize the idea that thrift is glorious and waste is shameful, and strive to make it a common practice to practice thrift and combat waste in the whole society. Party, government and military organs at all levels, public institutions, people's organizations, state-owned enterprises and leading cadres at all levels should take the lead in setting an example by strictly implementing the official reception system, strictly implementing various economizing measures, and resolutely putting an end to the waste of public funds. We should take targeted, operational and instructive measures to strengthen supervision and inspection, encourage thrift and curb waste.
"-- Xinhua News Agency, Jan. 17, 2013
