When people say "seeds", they naturally think of plants. On this trip to Guangdong, the general Secretary investigated another type of seed -- fishery seeds. The Southern base of the National 863 Program Mariculture Seed Project inspected by the General Secretary in Zhanjiang is mainly engaged in the research of fine seed breeding and seedling breeding of mariculture fish and shrimp such as penaeus white shrimp, grouper, cocao and golden Pomfret, focusing on the installation of "Chinese core" for fishery seeds.

From crop seeds to fishery seeds, it reflects a broad vision from food security to food security and from food view to big food view. "Setting up a big food concept, developing facility agriculture, building a diversified food supply system" was written into the Party's 20 National Congress Report. In the first local inspection in the first year of fully implementing the Party's 20 National Spirit, the General Secretary's concern about fishery seeds is behind the high importance of food supply security and food security for over 1.4 billion people in China. "Eating" is not only the consumption of food, meat, eggs and milk, fruits, vegetables, fish, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and other delicacies. Aquatic products are an important basket product, an important source of animal protein intake for the common people, and an important part of the big food concept. "From forests, grasslands, rivers, lakes and seas for food, from plants, animals and microorganisms for heat, protein, multiple ways to develop food sources"... From the General Secretary's important remarks, it can be seen that one of the major advantages and potential of meeting the diverse food needs of the common people and ensuring food supply lies in China's maritime territory of 3 million square kilometers. In the chapter "Building a diversified food supply System", the No. 1 Central Document of this year clearly points out that "scientific delineation of restricted cultivation areas and development of large surface ecological fisheries. We will build modern Marine pastures, and develop deep-water cages, aquaculture boats and other far-reaching Marine aquaculture." The base of the General Secretary's inspection is to make efforts in seedling cultivation, aquaculture, aquatic processing and other links, promote the construction of modern Marine pasture, and constantly explore high-quality protein from the sea with the wisdom of research and development and the power of science and technology.

The situation of food security in the world will still be quite uncertain. Only by establishing and practicing the concept of big food, expanding the source of food and increasing the total amount of food through extensive development of food resources, can we make continuous efforts to stabilize the rice bowl. Better seeds are the key to China's rice bowl. In Zhanjiang, the base inspected by the General Secretary has a characteristic that it adheres to scientific and technological innovation, breaks through the "bottleneck" problem of aquatic animal breeding, fills a number of technical gaps, realizes the qualitative leap in the breeding level of penaeus prawn and so on, and continuously improves the industrial value. In the complex and volatile international situation, it is more urgent than ever to ensure the independent control of provenance. Only by relying on science and technology and cultivating more superior seeds with independent intellectual property rights can we seize the initiative in seed industry competition and food security. From the protection of crop seeds to the safety of fishery seeds, from the farmland to the food to the nature for nutrition... In the final analysis, it is to build a diversified food supply system to meet people's increasingly rich and sophisticated food and nutrition needs, and protect people's "taste of safety and happiness". From the perspective of the well-being of the people, we can better understand the far-reaching meaning of the General Secretary's emphasis on "only by maintaining the initiative of food security, can we maintain the initiative of rejuvenation of China" -- not only to secure the rice bowl of China, but also to make it better and healthier.

Source: Xinhua