☆☆☆Students, when we see the bright five-star red flag rising, when we sing the majestic national anthem, our hearts are full of pride and happiness. We are proud that we are the great Chinese people *** and citizens of the country, we sing for today's happy life. But at the same time, have you ever worried about our motherland?
China has a large population. On average, there is one Chinese in every five people in the world. According to the 1990 census statistics, our population has reached 1.2 billion. And the arable land area of our country? Only seven percent of the world's arable land area, but feeds twenty-two percent of the world's population. The problem of feeding so many people has become the first big problem in our country. Have you ever worried about this biggest problem of our country?
Not bad, we have **** the leadership of the Communist Party, we have a superior socialist system, we have long solved the old China for thousands of years can not solve the problem of people's food. We should be proud of this! However, through the following figures, we should also see that the heavy burden of population not only makes eating a big problem, but also affects the speed of socialist construction in China.
There is such a set of data. 1998 China's grain, cotton, meat production accounted for the world's first. However, according to the population average, per capita has only 362 kilograms of food, lower than the world average, and even lower than some developing countries. What is even more lamentable is that the new China today is not more than a thousand years ago than the Tang and Song dynasties do not know how many times? However, due to the population explosion, the per capita possession of food than the Tang and Song dynasties is still more than 200 kilograms less.
Some people have made the analogy that the mouths of 1.2 billion people together are bigger than the world's largest square, Tiananmen Square. That's a lot of mouths! The new 15 million people alone will have to eat 5 billion kilograms of food every year! Therefore, to increase food production and save food is even more particularly significant for our country.
Students know that the United Nations to October 16 each year as the World Food Day, the Party Central Committee, the State Council decided to the World Food Day week as the week of food conservation. We have to carry out a variety of food, food saving theme activities, to really achieve the "daily code of conduct for elementary school students" derived from the "love food" requirements! Today, we know the state of the country, and further clarify the special significance of the love of food, food conservation, each of us students should start from now, to take practical action, for the party for the country to share the worry, the love of food, food conservation activities carried out in a solid manner.
Since 1996, when our government first published the white paper "China's Food Problem", China has made great achievements in maintaining food security. Over the past 10 years, China's comprehensive grain production capacity has steadily improved, with average annual output increasing by more than 10% over the previous 10 years, the grain self-sufficiency rate basically remaining above 95%, the structure of the population's diet significantly improved, the reform of the grain circulation system in the direction of marketization has continued to deepen, and the country's material basis for the implementation of macroeconomic control over grain has become more consolidated and the means more flexible, realizing the goal of food self-sufficiency on a domestic basis. The intended goal of domestic food self-sufficiency has been realized. The development of food production has allayed the concerns of the international community about China's food problems, solved the problem of feeding the 1.3 billion people, and made a significant contribution to world food security. While China's grain production has made great achievements, we must also see that the current situation of food security in China:
According to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, China's total grain output in 2006 increased for three consecutive years, reaching 994.9 billion pounds, which is not only close to the highest level in history, but also expected to realize the goal of reaching 1 trillion pounds of total grain output by the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan ahead of schedule. Grain production reached 1 trillion pounds of the end of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" planning goals. But the situation in the turnaround time, more to the current difficulties to maintain a clear understanding.
First of all, grain production continues to face many constraints. First, the constraints of land and water resources are becoming increasingly prominent. 2005, China's arable land area than the peak of grain production in 1998, a reduction of 120 million mu, close to the bottom line of 1.8 billion mu, and occupied basically high-quality arable land. At the same time, the area sown for grain also declined to 1.56 billion mu, basically the same as the 1.55 billion mu sown for grain proposed in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Agriculture. China's arable land and sown area for grain have nearly reached a critical level where they cannot continue to be reduced. China is also one of the world's 13 countries with the poorest water resources per capita, with the amount of available water resources per capita only 1/4 of the world average, and the distribution is very unbalanced between years and regions. Scarcity of water resources has become an important factor constraining food production. Secondly, the total population will still maintain the momentum of inertial growth. According to relevant reports, in the next 20 years, China's total population will continue to increase, reaching a peak of 1.5 billion around 2033 before slowly declining. Population increase directly promote the rigid growth of total food demand, which will make China's already tight food production and demand situation in a considerable period of time more severe. Thirdly, the impact of climate change has increased. According to statistics, China's average annual loss of grain due to disasters in about 100 billion pounds, equivalent to 1/10 of the annual production, especially in recent years, due to global warming caused by extreme weather tends to be more frequent, thus exacerbating the instability of agricultural production. Fourthly, the space for farmers to increase their income by growing food is limited. In recent years, the state has continued to increase investment in the "three rural areas", effectively protecting farmers' incentives to grow food. But in general, farmers' income from growing food is still low, and constrained by factors such as the scarcity of land, decentralized operations, and the continued rise in the price of means of production, there is limited room to improve the income from growing food in the future. Especially in many major grain-producing areas, young and strong laborers have chosen to go out to work, resulting in insufficient material resources, manpower and technology invested in food production.
Secondly, the structural contradictions are becoming more and more prominent. 2006, China's grain in the total amount of basic balance at the same time, the varieties of structural imbalance is rising as the main contradiction. This is mainly manifested in: First, wheat and rice ration varieties basically realize the goal of tight balance. Comprehensive analysis of the relevant departments of the State report, in 2006 China's wheat production and marketing a slight surplus of about 10 billion pounds, rice production and marketing a slight gap, but no more than 10 billion pounds, or even less. The two major ration varieties are in a tight balance. Rice, in particular, in the past 20 years, urban rice consumption growth of 83%, rice as rations for the proportion of the population has reached 60%, and production fluctuations, storage is difficult to trigger changes in the market for the pilot and sensitive varieties, must be highly concerned. Second, corn supply and demand situation has changed significantly. In recent years, the upgrading of food consumption structure led to faster growth in the farming industry, energy consumption increased to promote the rapid expansion of biomass energy industry, food processing demand to maintain a high growth momentum. This feature in the corn varieties on the most obvious. 2006, China's corn exports decreased by more than 60% year-on-year, the development of this trend, China's corn supply and demand will change from abundant to tight. Third, soybean dependence on the international market further deepened. According to customs statistics, in 2006 China's soybean imports amounted to 28.27 million tons, becoming the world's largest soybean importer. In the face of multinational enterprises capital and industrial advantages of the squeeze, the domestic soybean sowing area and production is a downward trend, the market shrinkage, thus further deepening the dependence on the international market.
Third, the comprehensive food supply capacity still needs to be improved. Examining the level of food security, we should not only look at the comprehensive food production capacity, but also look at the efficiency of food delivery and circulation. In accordance with the requirements of the perfect socialist market economic system, China's grain market and logistics system is still lagging behind. Grain market system, first, the market main body is very underdeveloped. State-owned grain purchasing and marketing enterprises have not yet completed the task of reform and restructuring, has not yet established a modern enterprise system; single-family farmers small-scale food cultivation, low degree of organization; most of the individual, private and joint-stock system and other market players operating scale and business volume is relatively small, urgently calling for the emergence of large-scale grain enterprise groups. Secondly, all kinds of market development is not perfect. Grain market network is not sound, market transactions are not standardized, the management level is poor, backward hardware facilities; market business mode does not meet the needs of the service function is not strong. E-commerce and futures as a representative of the slow development of modern trading methods, the discovery of prices, risk avoidance, improve transaction efficiency, reduce transaction costs of the function is constrained.
Two, the significance of food saving.
In daily life, everywhere you can see the phenomenon of wasting food. Perhaps people do not realize that they are wasting, may think that wasting this little bit of nothing, may still think that our motherland is vast. However, the fact is: China's population has exceeded 1.25 billion, the annual net growth is 12 million people; per capita arable land area of 1.2 acres, is the world's average value of 1/4; at present the arable land area is more than 300,000 mu per year the rate of increase; the country's 40% of the urban population rely on imports of food consumption. From 1981 to 1995, the country **** reduced 81 million mu of arable land, thus reducing food production by 50 billion pounds per year. And now this rate of reduction is still accelerating. Indiscriminate occupation of arable land, sand digging, deterioration of land quality, desertification and other phenomena are eating away at arable land. The reality is definitely not optimistic! Saving food is the obligation of every one of our citizens, not that you can waste it if you can afford to waste it because your life is better. Waste is a shameful behavior. As long as there is a sense of saving, in fact, do it is very simple: eat how much to eat how much, do not throw the leftovers; in the restaurant dining to order the right amount of food, and should not be set up a broad, chaotic point a gas.
Through the figures below, we should also see that the heavy burden of population not only makes eating a big problem, but also affects the speed of socialist construction in China.
There is such a set of data. 1998 China's grain, cotton, meat production accounted for the world's first. However, according to the population average, per capita has only 362 kilograms of food, lower than the world average, and even lower than some developing countries. What is even more lamentable is that the new China today is not more than a thousand years ago than the Tang and Song dynasties do not know how many times? However, due to the population explosion, the per capita possession of food than the Tang and Song dynasties is still more than 200 kilograms less.
Some people have made the analogy that the mouths of 1.2 billion people together are bigger than the world's largest square, Tiananmen Square. That's a lot of mouths! Just the fifteen million new people each year will have to eat five billion kilograms of food! Therefore, saving food, more particularly significant to our country.
Is there usually a waste of food phenomenon? In school, morning, noon and night in the cafeteria dining found that this phenomenon is really very serious, every day there are always a lot of rice, steamed bread was wasted, it's a real pity, too distressing! Waste is shameful, in a sense it is a "crime". Everything is valuable to insist on, saving from the little things to do, especially need to insist. One day or two days can, a year or two years? What about a longer period of time? Not only for the food, to let the savings internalized as consciously, become a habit.
Third, food-saving measures.
We have to carry out a variety of food, food saving theme activities, really achieve the "Code of Conduct for Secondary School Students" put forward by the "love food" requirements! Today, we know the state of the nation, and further clarify the special significance of cherish food, save food. There is an old poem that says, "A porridge and a meal, when thinking about the place where it is not easy; half silk and half a wisp, always thinking about the difficulties of material strength." Each of our students should start now, to take practical action, for the party for the country to share the worry, the love of food, food-saving activities carried out in a solid manner.
In order to practically put food saving into practice, we advocate:
1, do not compare, in order to save for honor, waste for shame.
2, the amount of food to be moderate, eat as much as the amount of food, the bowl of rice to eat clean, do not casually leftovers. In the school cafeteria dining students is more so, swiped the meal card, played the meal, be sure to finish.
3, advocating a balanced diet, not partiality, not picky about food, do not eat snacks.
4. When you follow your parents to a restaurant, you should order food without wasting it, and if there is anything left over, you should pack it and take it home.
5, see the waste phenomenon bravely up to stop, try to reduce waste. Actively supervise your relatives and friends to stop wasting food.
6, the classification of garbage, minimize the emission of garbage, reduce the pollution of arable land.
7, actively participate in field work, at home to help parents do what they can do