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BEIJING: Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua urged efforts to implement the provincial governor responsibility system for grain security.
The governments at the provincial level should shoulder the primary responsibility for safeguarding food security and effectively strengthen grain production by expanding the sown areas and increasing grain output, Hu said at a video conference.
He also stressed comprehensively enhancing the protection of cultivated land and the control of its use, while resolutely preserving the country’s “rice bowl”.
More efforts will be made in grain reserves and circulation, grain purchasing, local grain reserves, and improving the capacity for emergency supply, Hu said.
Evaluation of the provincial governors’ performance must be strictly implemented and the problems found should be rectified to fully ensure food security, he said.
Meanwhile, China’s top legislator, Li Zhanshu, has stressed efforts to promote the effective implementation of the law on soil pollution prevention and control in all areas. Li, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, made the remarks on Monday in Beijing while presiding over a meeting of the inspection team for the enforcement of the law on soil pollution prevention and control. This round of law enforcement inspections is aimed at urging different regions and departments to obligate legal liabilities and step up cooperation to ensure the central authority’s decisions and plans on ecological conservation are effectively implemented, Li said. Li stressed efforts to step up the treatment and remediation of polluted soil and remove dangers posed by soil pollution to the safety of agricultural products and human living environments.
Prevention and control of soil pollution should also be linked with that of air and water pollution to effectively cut off all origins of soil pollution, Li noted.
