Fundamentally ensure national food security-Tang Renjian, director of the Central Agriculture Office and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, talks about hot topics in the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" in 2021

Lay the foundation for seed industry innovation

During the investigation of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tang Renjian came to the construction site of the new national crop germplasm bank to understand the progress of the project, and went to the current national crop germplasm bank with a history of more than 30 years, and put on a cotton coat in the warehouse of minus 18 degrees Celsius for scientific research.
The personnel understand the preservation of resources
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The Central Economic Work Conference proposed that the protection and utilization of germplasm resources should be strengthened, and the construction of seed banks should be strengthened
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What's the point?

Tang Renjian said that to promote seed industry innovation, we must first lay a solid foundation, and the germplasm resource bank is one of the important foundations
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The current national crop germplasm resource bank in this investigation has a capacity of 400,000 copies.
Currently, 440,000 copies of germplasm resources are preserved.
A new resource bank will be built and used this year.
It can store 1.
5 million copies of germplasm resources, ranking No.
1 in the world.
One
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"Many of the varieties that we are familiar with, such as Jingxi rice and Tianjin Xiaozhan rice, will be preserved as strategic resources for a long time in this library
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This is the material basis for innovation in the seed industry
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We will also simultaneously promote livestock and poultry and marine fishery species.
Quality resource library construction
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" He said
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Tang Renjian said that China has formed three national seed industry bases in Hainan, Gansu and Sichuan
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In particular, the construction of the National Southern Propagation Research and Breeding Base in Hainan is building a "Southern Propagation Silicon Valley" integrating scientific research, production, sales, scientific and technological exchanges, and achievement transformation
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The next step is to continue to improve the level of base construction to provide basic guarantee for crop breeding
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Consolidate the "lifeblood" of grain production

Cultivated land is the "lifeblood" of food production.
How to protect it effectively? Tang Renjian said that China uses 9% of the world's arable land to feed 20% of the world's population, but it also makes the long-term high-intensity use and degradation of arable land worse
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With the rapid progress of urbanization and industrialization, high-quality arable land resources have become more in short supply
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To solve the problem of cultivated land, we will mainly start from two aspects in the future:

On the one hand, to ensure the amount of arable land, resolutely curb "non-agriculturalization" and prevent "non-grainization"
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8 billion mu of arable land is the bottom line for food
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This red line must be firmly maintained, and limited arable land resources must be given priority to food production .

On the other hand, to vigorously improve the quality of cultivated land, the main focus is the construction of high-standard farmland
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During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, China has built large-scale high-standard farmland.
In the past two years, 80 million mu of high-standard farmland has been built to ensure harvest during droughts and floods each year, which has played an important role in the grain harvest
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This year plans to build 100 million mu of high-standard farmland, and the task volume has increased by 25% compared with last year.
It is necessary to supervise and guide all localities to complete the target tasks
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The necessary capital investment is the guarantee of the quality of the project
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For the construction of 1 mu of high-standard farmland, it is generally reported that more than 2500 yuan is needed in various regions, and some hilly areas need more investment
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Where does the money come from? Tang Renjian said that multiple channels are needed to raise construction funds
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On the one hand, it is necessary to increase financial investment; on the other hand, it is necessary to promote the establishment of a diversified financing mechanism, promote the use of government bonds and the use of land transfer revenue policies, and put all the new arable land indicator adjustment proceeds from high-standard farmland construction into high-standard farmland construction.
Encourage the active participation of social and financial capital
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Consolidate the results of poverty alleviation with rural revitalization

The task of poverty alleviation in 2020 was completed on schedule
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The Central Economic Work Conference called for the consolidation and expansion of the results of poverty alleviation, resolutely preventing the occurrence of large-scale poverty return, and effectively connecting with rural revitalization
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Tang Renjian said that although earth-shaking changes have taken place in the appearance of poverty-stricken areas and the lives of the people who have been lifted out of poverty, the level of economic and social development in the poverty-stricken areas is still relatively backward, and the income levels of the people out of poverty are still low
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After the task of poverty alleviation is completed on schedule, we must do a good job in rural revitalization, use rural revitalization to consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation, and ensure that underdeveloped areas and rural low-income population keep up with the pace of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way
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He said that after the completion of the poverty alleviation goals and tasks, a five-year transition period will be established for counties that are out of poverty from the date of poverty alleviation.
During the transition period, the leadership system, work system, development plan, policy measures, and evaluation mechanism must be effectively connected.
from centralized resources to support rural poverty out of poverty to comprehensively promote the revitalization of a smooth transition, "Rotary launched" and then "get a ride"
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In the next step, we must plan and develop rural characteristic industries with poverty alleviation counties as the unit to promote the upgrading and upgrading of industries; continue to increase support for infrastructure construction in poverty-stricken areas, implement unified deployment of rural construction actions, and support poverty-stricken areas to promote the revolution in rural toilets according to local conditions.
Treatment of domestic garbage and sewage, and improvement of the appearance of the village
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(Xinhua News Agency reporter Yu Wenjing)