A Commentator's article in Qiu Shi (Seeking Truth - May 19) highlighted that ensuring the
supply of primary products is a major strategic issue for a big country like China. It said primary
products such as agricultural products, energy, and minerals are the most basic part of the entire
economy and strengthening the supply of primary products is a realistic need and a long-term
strategy, which is related to China's sustainable and stable development. It "emphasized that "energy security is an overall and strategic issue related to the country's economic and social
development" and that China's "grain output has achieved a historic "eighteen consecutive
abundance". It warned that "the consumption of primary products has increased rapidly, and
the import dependence of primary products has been relatively high, and some are still rising.
The serious gap in the supply of primary products may turn into a "grey rhino" incident,
especially food security, and there is no room for mistakes". "It listed four requirements
enumerated by Xi Jinping as: (i) insist on giving priority to saving: China is a country with a
large population with serious energy and resource constraints and it is therefore necessary to
promote comprehensive conservation, recycle resources, reduce energy consumption and
speed up Technological transformation of the manufacturing industry. (ii) enhance domestic
resource production and security capabilities, which includes increasing exploration efforts,
improving development and protection of marine resources and mineral resources; and
strengthening the construction of the national strategic material reserve system. and play a role
in regulating the bottom line at critical moments; the fourth is to promote garbage classification
and recycling, and expand domestic solid waste use, and speed up the construction of a waste
recycling system. (iii) strengthen energy and resource cooperation with relevant countries,
effectively prevent foreign investment risks, and expand the rights and interests of overseas
high-quality resources. (iv) the Chinese people's rice bowl must be firmly in their own hands.
Food security is related to the national movement and people's livelihood. "The more food you
have to eat, the more you have to think about the time when there is no food." General Secretary
Xi Jinping "particularly emphasized the security of agricultural product supply", demanded
that grain farmers be protected and production capacity and self-sufficiency rate of oilseeds
and soybeans be enhanced.
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