The realization of the "11th consecutive increase" of wheat does not mean that the grain problem in our country has already been

On the morning of the 24th, the "Golden Autumn report meeting on China's Rural Development, the Foundation of a Great Power," organized by the Voice of Rural China of the Central people's Radio, was held at China Agricultural University. At the meeting, Bi Meijia, chief economist of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in his speech in response to the "China food threat theory" advocated by some European and American countries: on the issue of food security, China not only poses no threat to the world, it has also made an important contribution to world food security.

China's wheat has achieved "11 consecutive increases" this year. China has made an important contribution to world food security.

He said: China's wheat has achieved "11 consecutive increases" this year, and the autumn harvest is about to begin in an all-round way. Although there is a serious drought in some areas, on the whole, this year is still a bumper harvest year. He said: this year's "Golden Autumn report meeting on China's Rural Development," the foundation of a big country, took food security as the theme of the first forum, which fully reflects the high political consciousness of the news and propaganda departments and the people-oriented feelings of paying attention to the well-being of the people.

Bi Meijia said that the food issue in China is very sensitive, which is concerned not only by the Chinese people, but also by the world. As early as 1994, the American Mr. Brown published the article "who will feed China", which caused great repercussions all over the world. Twenty years later, he published "can the world feed China?" The article once again attracted the attention of the world and once made the theory of "China's grain threat" very popular. Fact speak louder than words. Since the reform and opening up, China has produced 1x4 grain in the world and fed 5% of the population in the world. Under the correct leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the hardworking and wise Chinese peasants answered Mr. Brown's questions loudly with the above iron facts. It should be said that on the issue of food security, China not only did not pose a threat to the world, but also made important contributions to world food security.

Bi Meijia said: "in my mind, so far, there is an inextricable knot: on the one hand, some European and American countries are loudly advocating the 'China grain threat theory', saying that if China wants to feed its huge population, it is bound to rush to buy food in the international market. World food prices will rise, and it will be more and more difficult for some poor developing countries to eat food. On the other hand, when their minister of agriculture came to Beijing, they did everything possible to sell us grain, meat, milk, and so on. Is this an oboe play? "

The challenge of food security facing our country is also increasing.

At the same time, Bi Meijia pointed out that although we have achieved "ten consecutive increases" of grain at present, and this is another bumper harvest year, it is expected that "11 consecutive increases" are expected, but this does not mean that China's grain has passed. He said: in fact, despite the continuous increase in grain production, the food security challenges facing our country are also increasing. On the one hand, agricultural production is restricted by more and more resources, the land is reduced by millions of mu every year, the soil environmental quality of cultivated land is deteriorating, the shortage of water resources is increasing, the problem of "aging" of farmers is also increasingly serious, and so on. On the other hand, with the accelerated pace of industrialization and urbanization and the increase of the total population, the demand for grain is increasing rigidly. It is estimated that the total grain demand in China will reach 1.4 trillion jin by 2020. On the basis that the grain output has reached the high level of 1.2 trillion jin, how to maintain an annual increase of more than 30 billion jin is as difficult as a high jumper. The higher the jump, the more difficult it is to improve. And with the improvement of people's living standards, we should not only eat well, but also eat safely and healthily, and the requirements for quality and safety are getting higher and higher.

Focus on five aspects of work to ensure China's Food Security

In the face of severe challenges, how to ensure China's food security? General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out that with grain in hand, there is no panic in the heart, and the rice bowls of the Chinese people should be firmly in their own hands at all times, and they should mainly contain Chinese grain. The new central leadership collective size up the situation and clearly put forward the "national food security strategy" under the new situation, which is to adhere to the "20-character policy" of "giving priority to us, gaining a foothold at home, ensuring production capacity, moderate import, and scientific and technological support." In my opinion, as long as we strengthen the "three self-confidence", further consolidate and improve the policy of strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers, protect the enthusiasm of farmers in farming and grain production, scientific and technological personnel, and cadres at all levels in supporting agriculture and grasping grain, reform and innovation, and comprehensive policies, we can firmly grasp the initiative of the national food security strategy. As the department in charge of grain production, it is the bounden duty of the agricultural sector to ensure national food security, and we will work with relevant departments to make unremitting efforts to this end. The key point is to pay attention to the following five aspects.

First, we should keep the red line of cultivated land and strive to improve the quality of land. Cultivated land is the foundation of grain production. Although in the second detailed land survey, the book number of cultivated land has increased by 203 million mu, it has not actually increased, and these cultivated land have been cultivated all the time, but the bottom number is unknown in the past, but it is clearer now. General Secretary Xi stressed that in order to protect cultivated land like cultural relics or even giant pandas, we must implement the strictest cultivated land protection system, actively explore and delineate permanent basic farmland, and strictly observe the red line of cultivated land. strictly abide by the bottom line of 1.6 billion mu of grain sown area and 1.4 billion mu of grain sown area. At the same time, great efforts should be made to improve land quality. At present, the medium-and low-yield fields account for 2% of the cultivated land in China. Therefore, we should speed up the construction of agricultural infrastructure, speed up the implementation of the National General Plan for the Construction of High-standard farmland, and build 800 million mu of high-standard farmland by 2020. Through the implementation of fertile soil projects, organic matter promotion projects, conservation tillage, etc., to improve the sustainable development capacity of grain production. On the other hand, we should strengthen the control of soil pollution.

The second is to raise the level of science and technology and strive to tap the potential for increasing production. Comrade Deng Xiaoping said that science and technology is the primary productive force. In recent years, many natural disasters have occurred in China every year, but grain production has always maintained a steady growth. The important reason is that the level of our agricultural equipment has improved, especially science and technology has played an important role. In 2013, the contribution rate of agricultural science and technology progress in China reached 55.2%, but there is still a big gap compared with developed countries. In the next step, we will continue to unswervingly follow the connotative development path of relying on scientific and technological progress and increasing per unit yield, so as to insert the wings of science and technology into grain production. "if a good son has a good mother, he will grow more grain." The key point is to deepen the reform of the seed industry system and speed up the cultivation of a number of breakthrough varieties with great application prospects and independent intellectual property rights. The per unit yield of super rice cultivated by Academician Yuan Longping has been close to 1000 kg. We will actively promote the integration and innovation of agricultural technologies, carry out high-yield creation and grain production models on a large scale, and promote key technologies to be put into place. For example, Qiqihar City has promoted the use of water-saving technology of drip irrigation under plastic film in a large area of corn planting, increasing production by 30% per mu by 50%, and saving water consumption by 85%. By promoting the agronomic integration of agricultural machinery, we will speed up the process of mechanization in the whole process of grain production. In 2013, the comprehensive mechanization level of crop cultivation and harvest in China reached 59.5%, 27% higher than that of 10 years ago, and the potential is still great. Now wheat has basically achieved full mechanization, but there is still a gap in the mechanized production of corn and rice.

The third is to speed up reform and innovation and build a new agricultural management system. In the long run, the fundamental way to solve China's grain problem is to deepen the reform and speed up the construction of a three-dimensional compound modern agricultural management system based on household management, with cooperation and association as the link and social service as the support. Take the cultivation of a new type of professional farmers as the starting point, speed up the cultivation of a new type of agricultural management main body. We will vigorously support the development of large grain growers, family farms, farmers' cooperatives, leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization and social service organizations. At present, there are nearly 900,000 family farms, nearly 1.2 million farmers' cooperatives registered in accordance with the law, more than 120000 leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, more than 150000 public welfare service organizations of various types, and more than 1 million agricultural business service organizations. In accordance with the requirements of the law of input and output, actively and steadily promote appropriate scale operation of agriculture. On the basis of stabilizing the contracted relationship of rural land and keeping it unchanged for a long time, we should guide the orderly circulation of land, encourage the transfer of contracted management rights to large professional households, family farms, farmers' cooperatives and agricultural enterprises in the open market, and develop various forms of scale operation. Adapt to the changes of the main body of management, and strive to improve the socialized service system of agriculture. For example, we should vigorously implement the rule of professional and unified prevention of diseases and insect pests. According to typical surveys in some provinces, compared with farmers' self-prevention, the use of pesticides per mu of rice fields can be reduced by about 20%, labor costs can be reduced by 38 yuan, 50 jin of rice can be saved, and more than 100 yuan can be saved. Another example is the Renfa Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Keshan County, Heilongjiang Province. Through the combination of agricultural machinery, agronomy and large-scale operation, corn and potato per mu have increased by 200 jin and 700 jin respectively.

Fourth, make good use of two kinds of resources and two markets. The purpose of our accession to the WTO is to speed up the economic development of our country with the help of the world market. At present, the global grain trade volume is about 5000-600 billion jin, less than half of China's grain consumption. We should import moderately on the basis of "ensuring basic self-sufficiency of grain and absolute safety of rations," with emphasis on adjusting the surplus and shortage of varieties and adjusting the annual balance. In recent years, with the improvement of people's consumption level, the diversified demand for grain varieties is also increasing, especially the insufficient supply of some high-end high-quality rice, high-quality strong gluten and weak gluten wheat, which need to be imported in an appropriate amount; corn, as an important energy feed and industrial raw material, is also imported to a certain extent.

Fifth, we should conscientiously do a good job in the big article of saving grain. State Food Minister Ren Zhengxiao said at the APEC Agriculture and Food Ministers' meeting that more than 70 billion jin of grain is wasted in transportation, storage, and processing every year. Some research units believe that the food wasted in our country can feed 200 million people every year. Everyone will be shocked to see such a figure. We should firmly establish the consciousness that "saving grain is increasing grain", and the news and propaganda departments should vigorously advocate the concept of "saving grain and shameful wasting grain", persevere in carrying out the "CD-ROM" campaign, and call on the whole society to save grain. At the same time, we should also make full use of grasslands and crop straw to actively promote the development of herbivorous animal husbandry. In this way, it can not only solve the problem of insufficient supply of beef and mutton, but also save feed and grain.