"Strive to ensure" food security China's high-level deployment to promote food stability...

In the face of the complex international food situation, the State Council executive meeting held on the 6th focused on food security issues, calling for further promotion of the stable development of food production, effectively improving food security capabilities, and putting forward a number of measures to stabilize production
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In recent years, especially since the global outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China has held meetings and issued many documents to focus on food production and supply, and put food security in a more prominent position, especially during the "14th Five-Year Plan" (2021).
In the plan to 2025, for the first time, China has adopted comprehensive food production capacity as a security-related binding indicator, which has been clarified in the main indicators of economic and social development, reflecting the high level of attention China’s top management attaches to food security
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Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Rural Development Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told reporters from China News Agency that since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the international food security situation has deteriorated.
China emphasizes food security not only to ensure the "rice bowl" of its people, but also to contribute to the world
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The 2021 Global Food Crisis Report released by the Global Food Crisis Network (GNAFC) on the 5th pointed out that in 2020, conflicts, the new crown pneumonia epidemic impacted the economy and extreme weather and other factors, putting at least 155 million people in the world into severe food insecurity.

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Li Guoxiang said that in the past few years, the phenomenon of “non-agriculturalization” and “non-grainization” of arable land occurred in China.
In addition, the price of feed grains such as corn and soybeans rose and fluctuated significantly last year.
This is also the background for the high level of China’s high level of attention to stable grain production and food supply.

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In order to ensure food security, the State Council executive meeting held on the 6th proposed a number of measures, including increasing farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain, regulating the grain market to ensure supply and price stability, strictly guarding the area of ​​arable land, and increasing yields
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The meeting proposed that it is necessary to work tirelessly to ensure stable and high yields, stabilize and improve policies such as the minimum purchase price of rice and wheat, and subsidies for corn and soybean producers, so that farmers can make money from growing grain; it is necessary to strengthen the protection of arable land and quality construction, and implement a new round.
High-standard farmland construction plans, resolutely curb the "non-agriculturalization" of arable land, strictly control the "non-grainization", and strictly adhere to the red line of 1.
8 billion acres of arable land; focus on public relations to make up for shortcomings in a scientific and pragmatic spirit, and improve the quality of rice, wheat and soybean oil content.
Improve the yield of important agricultural products and market adaptability
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Li Guoxiang said that to ensure food security, we must first maintain the red line of 1.
8 billion acres of arable land and curb the phenomenon of "non-graining" of arable land.
Secondly, with limited arable land, the key is to rely on technology to increase yields.
"Currently, the yield of arable land in China is comparable to that of developed countries.
Compared with this, there is still a lot of room for improvement.
For example, in developed countries, the yield per mu of arable land for two crops a year can reach more than 1 ton, while China is currently 1,500 jin.
It is necessary to establish a goal to increase grain productivity
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The Global Food Crisis Network predicts that in 2021, economic difficulties, extreme weather and other factors caused by the prevention and control measures of the new crown pneumonia epidemic will continue to aggravate the food insecurity of vulnerable economies and may trigger a global food crisis
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Faced with the complex international food situation, will China's food security in 2021 be guaranteed? Will the prices of corn and soybeans, which have risen significantly since last year, continue to rise?

The Rural Green Paper: Analysis and Forecast of China’s Rural Economic Situation (2020~2021) released by the Rural Development Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on the 6th shows that in 2021, China will give priority to the development of agricultural and rural areas, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and accelerate agricultural and rural areas.
Modernization, high-quality agricultural development continued to advance, and the supply-demand relationship of major agricultural products improved significantly
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Li Guoxiang said that China's total grain supply may increase significantly this year, and grain reserves will also remain stable.