In what year did China begin its new journey of building a modern country in an all-round way?

Since the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, China has embarked on a new journey of building a modern country in an all-round way. Doing a good job in "agriculture, countryside and farmers" is very important to promote the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. Recently, the Opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on Promoting Rural Revitalization in an All-round Way and Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization has made clear arrangements for accelerating agricultural modernization, which is of great significance.

Characteristics of the 14th Five-Year Plan

For a populous country like China, it is the primary task to ensure the supply security of grain and important agricultural products. In the part of accelerating agricultural modernization, Document No.1 first emphasizes improving the supply guarantee capacity of grain and important agricultural products, which requires us to work together from both domestic and international aspects, not only to strengthen the construction of domestic grain production capacity, promote the adjustment of agricultural structure, and implement the responsibility of grain production, but also to optimize the trade layout and actively encourage enterprises to integrate into global agricultural products.

However, after China's overall victory in tackling poverty, people's living standards will be further improved, and eating well still faces no small challenge. The enhancement of comprehensive grain production capacity and the increase of grain output have laid an important foundation for food security. However, with the gradual change of domestic food consumption demand from eating well to eating well, China will still face challenges in ensuring the supply of important agricultural products such as grain in the future.

First of all, Chinese residents' demand for food such as oil, protein and sugar has entered a stage of rapid growth, and this part of food supply is related to the upgrading demand of people's quality of life. In the future, in the process of per capita GDP reaching the level of moderately developed countries and middle-income groups expanding significantly, there is still huge room for upgrading the food consumption structure of residents.

Secondly, the total grain supply is basically balanced, but the structural contradictions are prominent. China maintains a self-sufficiency level of more than 100% and has sufficient stocks. However, the proportion of vegetable oil, meat, eggs, milk and other foods in residents' dietary consumption structure is rising, which brings great pressure to domestic oil and feed grain supply.

On the one hand, people in the valley do not eat, and the valley is barren. Cultivated land is the lifeblood of grain production. Only by protecting cultivated land can food security be guaranteed. On the other hand, the country takes agriculture as the foundation and agriculture as the priority. To ensure the self-sufficiency rate of important agricultural products, we must first control the source varieties of agricultural production. Only by cultivating excellent varieties with independent intellectual property rights can we ensure the national food security from the source. Document No.1 of the Central Committee, 202 1.