Communist Party Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday called for an all-out effort to guarantee Food security at a conference on agricultural production.
March 2, the Chinese Communist Party Premier Li Keqiang to the national spring agricultural production work teleconference, called for all-out efforts to ensure food security, to ensure stable grain production of more than 1.3 trillion jin, and stressed the issue of holding the red line of arable land and stable pig production.
Vice Premier Hu Chunhua said in his speech at the conference that the task of food and agricultural production this year is enormous and must be placed in a prominent position of importance to “grasp it tightly”.
This is the Communist Party’s top-level statement on the issue of food security again this year.
Previously, on February 21, the CPC State Council issued the No. 1 document of the Central Committee for 2021 has called for “improving the ability to guarantee the supply of grain and important agricultural products.
Reuters reported that the Feb. 21 document placed more emphasis on food security than in previous years, calling on China’s provinces to increase grain production between 2021 and 2025, indicating that the Communist Party is more concerned about food security in the wake of the Communist Party’s virus Epidemic.
Chinese Minister of Agriculture Tang Renjian said at a Feb. 22 news conference that China’s grain supply and demand are not wide and have been in tight balance. As the uncertainty and instability of the external situation has increased significantly, the issue of food security should not be taken lightly for a moment, and food security must not go wrong.
On August 17, 2020, the Institute of rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released a report stating that by 2025, China is likely to have a grain deficit of about 130 million tons, with a deficit of about 25 million tons of cereals (the three major staples).
China imports more than 100 million tons of grain each year as it becomes increasingly difficult to be self-sufficient, but major global grain powers have restricted exports under the impact of the Communist Party’s virus epidemic.
In an interview on November 14, 2020, David Beasley, Secretary General of the UN World Food Program (WFP), said that a more severe food crisis will come in 2021 than the CCP virus virus this year (2020).
According to the UN World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the CCP virus epidemic will cause a massive food crisis, and if the epidemic is not effectively controlled, the number of people suffering from severe hunger will increase to 265 million.
Considering the food security issue, the CCP increased food imports during the CCP virus epidemic in 2020, which exceeded 140 million tons of food imports that year, a record.
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