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Chinese rice bowls are full of confidence
Economic Daily China Economic Net Reporter Liu Hui
On October 16, the main venue for World Food Day 2020 and China Food Safety Awareness Week was held in Xiamen, Fujian. This year’s World Food Day and China Food Safety Awareness Week have the themes “Grow together, prosper together, keep together, actions create the future” and “Reaffirm China’s rice bowl and build world food security “as themes, demonstrating China’s commitment to food security. The determination of the signature and responsibility of an important country to maintain world food security and a good vision of global cooperation to jointly maintain food security.
Challenges for global food security
The United Nations World Food Program predicts that the number of people facing severe food insecurity in the world may increase from 135 million to 265 million this year. “In recent decades, world agricultural productivity has increased enormously. Now the world’s total food production has exceeded consumption, but the imbalance of the food system has become increasingly serious. The negative impact of the new epidemic of pneumonia in the crown this year has exacerbated the imbalance in the food system. ” Said Ou Minxing, acting representative of the representative office in China.
Poverty is the main cause of the current global food crisis. The impact of the new corona pneumonia epidemic this year has led to a decline in income and purchasing power in many regions. Countries and regions such as Africa and the Middle East are facing new threats of hunger. Even in developed countries, some people cannot afford food due to unemployment. Qu Sixi, representative of the United Nations World Food Program in China, believes that many hungry people in the world are caused by wars and conflicts. In 2019, almost all of the 10 most food insecure countries and regions have experienced wars and conflicts.
Cheng Guoqiang, a member of the National Advisory Committee of Experts on Food Safety Strategy and a special professor at Tongji University School of Economics and Management, believes that international financial speculative capital can use the epidemic and the expected reduction in the production of food to exaggerate, trigger global market panic, promote international food market prices and lead to a global food crisis.
Prepare the Chinese rice bowl
Faced with the sudden new corona pneumonia epidemic, China’s food security has withstood the test, and the overall food market has remained stable. Practice has proven once again that only by relying on the basic self-sufficiency of food, firmly holding the Chinese rice bowl with your own hands, and filling the rice bowl with Chinese grain, can food safety be guaranteed.
Food security is an important foundation of national security. The Central Party Committee and the State Council have always attached great importance to food safety. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has implemented a new national food security strategy based on its own national conditions and grain conditions, comprehensively strengthened the construction of production capacity, cereal circulation and storage, and has stabilized cereal production capacity. Inventory is plentiful and the food security situation continues to improve. Holding the Chinese people’s rice bowl firmly in their hands has laid a solid material foundation to ensure the safety of “rice bags” throughout the country and provided a strong guarantee for the economic and social development and overall stability of the country. country.
Food safety is not only quantitative safety and quality safety, but also industrial safety at a higher level. Since 2017, the National Grain and Materials Reserve Office has tried its best to promote high-quality grain projects, accelerate the high-quality development of the grain industry, and build a “big grain”, “big industry” and “great circulation” from raw grain to finished product, production area to sales area, and field to table. “The pattern is to ensure national food security at a higher level.
Do not forget to save the harvest, and the consumption is not wasted. At present, the whole society is taking steps to promote the traditional virtues of diligence and thrift of the Chinese nation, create a social atmosphere of strict economy and oppose waste, resolutely put an end to “waste on the tip of the tongue” and reduce losses and waste in food procurement, storage, transportation, and processing after production. Do your best to ensure national food security.
Joining forces to meet the challenges of global food security
Faced with the severe challenges of the global spread of the new corona pneumonia epidemic and the impact on the world food supply order, strengthening international cooperation is an effective measure to avoid the challenges of the current global food crisis.
In recent years, countries have attached great importance to food security issues, and food security cooperation and governance capacities have improved significantly. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations established an early warning and food monitoring system through the G20 mechanism and played an active role. During the epidemic, the United Nations World Food Program adopted various methods to help the poor and maintain world food security. As a responsible major country, while ensuring its own food security, China upholds the concept of a community with a shared future for humanity and works hand in hand with countries around the world to continuously strengthen cooperation in security governance. food, respond effectively to the impact of the epidemic and build global food security.
Zhang Wufeng, director of the State Grain and Materials Reserve Office, said China will continue to promote South-South cooperation in the food sector, explore new models of international food cooperation, and deepen cooperation in the food economy and trade with the countries of the “Belt and Road” initiative, in order to achieve United Nations sustainable development by 2030. The goal of “eliminating hunger, achieving food security, improving nutritional status and promoting sustainable agriculture” makes due contributions.
Liu Hui
