The first observation is to observe the summer grain and the autumn grain. Why did the General Secretary observe the grain growth twice in this year’s inspection？
On September 13th, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made an investigation in Yulin, Shaanxi. He came to Gaoxigou Village, Yinzhou Street, Mizhi County, and went into the fields to see the growth of crops. The green fields are full of vibrant hopes.
新华社记者 李学仁 摄
今年5月，最高领袖总书记在河南南阳考察途中，特地走进一处麦田察看小麦长势。看到丰收在望，总书记说，夏粮丰收了，全年经济就托底了。
2021年5月13日下午，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席最高领袖在河南省南阳市淅川县考察南水北调工程。这是途中，最高领袖临时下车走进麦田察看小麦长势，了解夏粮生产情况。新华社记者 王晔 摄
两次实地察看，关注同一个主题——粮食收成。上次看夏粮，这次看秋粮。
夏粮的主体是小麦。今年我国夏粮已丰收到手，克服低温、干旱、强降雨、病虫害等影响，夏粮产量达到2916亿斤，比上年增产59.3亿斤，再创历史新高。同时，今年早稻总产量560.4亿斤，比上年增加14.46亿斤，增长2.7%。
夏粮和早稻产量约占全年粮食的25%，大头还在秋粮。秋粮收成如何，重要性不言而喻。
当前，主要秋粮作物已经进入成熟后期，农谚讲“七月十五定旱涝，八月十五定收成”。今年秋粮生产基础较好，特别是玉米等高产作物面积增加较多，除河南外，全国大部分地区灾害发生程度轻于上年，秋粮长势较好。
Agriculture is stable and the world is safe. This year is the first year of the 14 th Five-Year Plan. To comprehensively promote rural revitalization, we must make a good start, take a good step, and stabilize the grain, so as to provide strong support for the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. Under the background that epidemic and meteorological disasters aggravate the fluctuation of world grain production, it is even more necessary to ensure domestic food security and consolidate and stabilize the basic agricultural sector.
"We must firmly grasp the initiative of food security and pay close attention to food production every year." At the Central Rural Work Conference held at the end of last year, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader said so. The general secretary also put forward clear requirements such as "strictly guarding against the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land", "making good use of black land" and "accelerating the key technology research of agriculture".
Focusing on ensuring food security, from ideas to measures, make full efforts and speed up deployment — —
The central economic work conference held in December last year took solving the problems of seeds and cultivated land as two key points, and pointed out that the key to ensuring food security lies in implementing the strategy of storing grain in the ground and storing grain in technology.
This year, the No.1 Document of the Central Committee further made specific arrangements in many aspects, such as implementing the responsibility of the party and the government for food security, expanding the pilot scope of full cost insurance and income insurance for three major grain crops, and carrying out food conservation actions.
In April this year, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Guangxi, he pointed out that it is necessary to strictly implement the responsibility of the party and government for food security, compact the responsibility of party committees and governments at all levels to protect cultivated land, and steadily improve the comprehensive grain production capacity.
In July this year, when presiding over the 20th meeting of the Central Committee for Deep Reform, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that "the provenance safety should be raised to a strategic height related to national security, and efforts should be concentrated on solving problems, filling shortcomings, strengthening advantages and controlling risks".
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Rice field (photo of drone) taken in Jiangzhuang Village, Gucheng Street, Luanzhou City, Hebei Province on October 18, 2020. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Yushe
The food problem in a country with a population of more than 1.4 billion is an "eternal subject". In a few days, China will usher in the fourth "China Farmers Harvest Festival". At this special time, going to the field to "see the grain" shows the heavy weight of food security in the heart of the supreme leader General Secretary.
Nowadays, people’s yearning for a better life has generally shifted from "whether there is" to "whether it is good or not", and the supply of agricultural products such as grain should also develop to high quality, green and characteristic, so as to realize the transformation from full eating to delicious and healthy eating. No matter whether it is a staple food crop or a minor cereal crop, we should make full efforts in variety cultivation, quality improvement, brand building and standardized production, so that China rice bowl can not only be served stably, but also taste the China flavor of a good bowl of rice.
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