This White Paper is a sectoral policy document, which outlines the country's efforts in enhancing food security and expanding international cooperation in the area. Abiding by the principle of basic food self-sufficiency based on domestic grain production, China implements the strictest farmland protection system and a strategy of sustainable farmland use and innovative application of agricultural technology to increase farmland productivity. Through supply-side structural reform and institutional innovation, China has raised grain productivity, modernized grain circulation, improved food-supply structure and achieved steady development in the grain industry. The White Paper noted that in the medium to long term, China's grain production and demand will remain closely aligned, and the world is still facing severe food security challenges. To copy with these challenges, China will forge ahead along its own path and implement its national strategies for food security and rural vitalization through sustainable farmland use and agricultural technology innovation to increase farmland productivity. The specific policies are proposed for the future, including: 1. To enhance food productivity through keeping to the red line for the protection of cultivated land and saving and utilizing water resources efficiently, continuing to improve farmland quality, upgrading institutions and mechanisms for better organized grain production, etc. To improve the management of emergency grain reserves through improving the emergency grain supply guarantee system, improving the grain monitoring and pre-warning system, encouraging grain conservation and reducing losses, etc. While ensuring domestic food security, China will join the global fight against hunger, assist other developing countries to the best of its ability within the framework of South-South cooperation and promote the sound development of the global food industry. To enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, policies are also proposed, including: Stepping up efforts to build a modern grain market system; Improving grain storage and logistics; Building a modernized grain industry system; Enhancing agro-technological innovation and improving grain production capacity; etc.
Chine · 2019-10-01