Food security should also be paid attention to in the upgrading of industrial structure

According to media reports, since the summer harvest this year, floods in some areas of southern China have been more serious, summer grain has been seriously affected by diseases, imperfect grain exceeding the standard is more prominent, and part of the grain land has been flooded, grain harvest has been greatly affected. Recently, the State Food Administration issued an emergency notice specifically requesting that summer grain purchases in disaster-stricken areas be done well. For wheat exceeding the standard in disaster-stricken areas, it is not possible to simply reject the matter.

China is a country with a large population. Food security has always been the core issue. Food production is a top priority for people's livelihood and must not be careless. Make sure the harvest is not compromised. The impact of flood disaster on grain production is a short-term impact, which should be paid attention to; but from the long-term impact, it promotes the upgrading of industrial structure or has a greater impact on grain production, which should be paid more attention to.

Correctly handle industrial upgrading

Relationship to food production

The purpose of upgrading industrial structure is to realize the upgrading of industrial structure and to increase the proportion of high value-added industries in a country's industrial structure. Industrial structure upgrading is an important way for a country to improve its core competitiveness, and it is also the inevitable trend of a country's economic development. Generally speaking, the process of upgrading industrial structure is a process in which the proportion of manufacturing industry and service industry in industrial structure increases continuously. However, in the process of promoting the upgrading of industrial structure, a country is easy to ignore agricultural development and food security. Some developing countries do not deal with the relationship between industrial structure upgrading and food production, sometimes leading to famine. Promoting the upgrading of industrial structure should be carried out on the basis of ensuring food security. If we sacrifice food security and promote the upgrading of industrial structure, we will lose more than we gain.

In fact, if handled properly, upgrading the industrial structure and attaching importance to grain production are not contradictory. From the trend point of view, the proportion of agricultural production, including grain production, in the industrial structure gradually decreases, but the upgrading of industrial structure can improve the efficiency and productivity of a country's resource allocation and reduce the input-output ratio of grain production. Of course, this only means that it can be realized technically. It is very dangerous to blindly promote the upgrading of industrial structure in terms of economic strategy and system design while ignoring grain production and famine.

The upgrading of a country's industrial structure will inevitably produce a "year-on-year" resource surplus, which should ensure that part of it is used for grain production, that is, on the basis of ensuring the stock of resources invested in grain production, a certain increment should be ensured in the "year-on-year" resource surplus.

The experience of the United States in dealing with the relationship between industrial structure upgrading and grain production is worth learning from. While promoting the upgrading of industrial structure, the United States has never neglected food production. After a long period of development, the industrial structure of the United States has been optimized through the upgrading of industrial structure. High-tech industries and high value-added industries occupy a dominant position in the industrial structure, and modern service industries represented by financial industry occupy a prominent position in the industrial structure. However, the United States has never neglected agricultural production in the process of promoting industrial structure upgrading for a long time, and has always attached great importance to food security. Developed countries such as the United States, whose industrial structure is obviously non-agricultural, dare not neglect agricultural production, especially grain production. Developing countries should not neglect grain production in the process of optimizing industrial structure.

Industrial upgrading and

healthy development of grain production

The goal of upgrading and optimizing China's industrial structure is to improve the position of high-tech industries and high-value-added industries in the industrial structure and gradually make them dominant. However, in the process of upgrading the industrial structure, the proportion of agriculture in the industrial structure will gradually decrease, but agricultural production and food security cannot be ignored.

The first is to speed up the pace of industrial integration and improve the intelligent level of grain production. Realizing the intellectualization, mechanization and automation of grain production is the trend and trend of grain production in the world today. Generally speaking, people in the treatment of intelligent production, highlighting its use in manufacturing. In fact, in terms of food production, intelligence should also be gradually realized. To improve the intelligent level of grain production, the focus is on introducing control technology, information technology, etc. to improve grain productivity through industrial integration. Traditional grain production methods have not adapted to the requirements of economic and social development. After decades of development, China's grain production has achieved a certain degree of mechanization and automation, such as sowing, transplanting and harvesting, but the degree of intelligence is not high. We should improve the intelligent level of grain production by realizing the high integration of grain production and high-tech industries.

Second, we should intensify institutional innovation and further improve the marketization of grain production. Foreign historical lessons show that system innovation often leads to big problems in food production, even famine. From 1932 to 1933, there was a widespread famine in the former Soviet Union, the most serious of which was in Ukraine. Ukraine is known as the "granary of Europe." The Great Famine in the 1930s brought great disaster to the people of Ukraine. What surprised us was not only the vagaries of the natural environment, but also the abnormal world under the totalitarian system, which showed that the backward system and insufficient innovation of the system sometimes did more harm to food production than natural factors. In countries like the former Soviet Union, which itself came from a backward small-scale peasant economy, the forced implementation of collectivization and nationalization of the economic system did not enable agricultural rulers to develop efficiently as desired, but brought heavy blows to agricultural workers. The lessons of the former Soviet Union in this respect show that agriculture under the totalitarian system, after undergoing such a series of reforms, eventually revealed its defects in economic practice, and these defects were exposed by endless food crises and great famines. We should draw lessons from this aspect. The key to innovation of grain production system is to further improve the marketization and internationalization of grain production, to increase the market scope of grain trade with an open attitude, not only to pay attention to the domestic market of grain trade, but also to participate in the international market on a larger scale, so as to improve China's grain security and guard against grain risks.

Third, the red line of 1.8 billion cultivated land should not be shaken for a long time and the regional structure of grain production should be optimized. Some people point out that China can relax the bottom line of 1.8 billion cultivated land, and even some people point out that China's future grain mainly depends on imports. There is no doubt that these views are wrong. China's large population is a basic national condition, mainly relying on imports to solve the food problem, which is equivalent to handing over one's life to other countries, and the possibility of famine will increase. Therefore, the red line of 1.8 billion cultivated land is the bottom line. At present, China has 2.026 billion mu of cultivated land, which shows that, from the current point of view, the goal of maintaining the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land has been successfully completed, providing a solid foundation and guarantee for ensuring absolute safety of grain production. Judging from the future development trend, keeping the red line of cultivated land should not only protect the effective quantity of cultivated land, but also pay more attention to quality and pay equal attention to quantity and quality. At the same time, it is necessary to optimize the regional structure of grain production and prevent the impact of poor harvests in traditional main grain producing areas due to floods on food security.