Learn a vegetable and a meal every day, and the world tastes great.
Tempting slices of meat, delicious fish and shrimp, delicious mushrooms, verdant vegetables, hearty fruits...... The abundant "sea, land and air" delicacies on the table reflect a better life.
The dining table is not only a family affair, but also a national affair, and it is also the concern of General Secretary Xi Jinping.
He often mentions a concept - "big food concept": "starting from better meeting the needs of the people for a better life, grasping the changing trend of the people's food structure, while ensuring the supply of food, to ensure the effective supply of meat, vegetables, fruits, aquatic products and other kinds of food, without anything." ”
The formation of this concept can be traced back to the time when the general secretary was working in the localities.
"When I was working in Fujian, I worked in the mountains and along the coast. At that time, I put forward the concept of big food, meat, eggs, poultry, milk, fish, fruits, mushrooms, tea...... It's all food. ”
On July 19, 1989, Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Ningde Prefectural Party Committee, and his entourage went to Xiadang Township, Shouning County for investigation.
In the eighties and nineties of the last century, Ningde's total economic output ranked last in Fujian Province, commonly known as "Mindong Laojiu". Less than three months after Xi Jinping took office in such an underdeveloped coastal area where "the old and the young are poor and the border islands are poor", he traveled to 9 counties in eastern Fujian, and later to most of the towns and villages.
There is no vast and fertile black soil, nor is it the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, the per capita grain share in eastern Fujian was lower than the provincial level. The problem of food and clothing for some peasants has not yet been solved, and they are still living a life of "relying on the return of grain to the seller."
After in-depth investigation, Xi Jinping was deeply impressed by the regional characteristics and resource advantages of Fujian's "eight mountains, one water and one field". He advocated stabilizing grain, grasping mountains and seas at the same time, developing township and town enterprises, and developing agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline products, and fishery in an all-round way.
"In the past, grain was only narrowly understood as rice, wheat, corn and other grasses. The grain that we are talking about now is food, and the concept of big grain has replaced the old concept of taking grain as the key link. This passage in the book "Getting Rid of Poverty" expresses Xi Jinping's thoughts on the "big food concept".
To solve the problem of eating, we should not just focus on the limited arable land, but also open our minds and ask for food from forests, rivers, lakes and seas, and rich biological resources. This is not only to solve the problem of "having enough to eat" under the condition of limited resources, but also to meet the needs of the people to "eat well and eat healthily".
"Therefore, I have proposed to build 'Fuzhou on the sea' and 'Fujian on the sea'." "We should attach importance to the sea area as much as we attach importance to cultivated land, and we should grasp the development of the sea as much as we grasp grain production, and extend the tentacles of accelerating economic development from the land to the sea."
On March 20, 2024, in Ningde City, Fujian Province, in the fishing row breeding demonstration area of Qixing Village, Xinan Town, Xiapu County, fishermen drove a breeding boat to carry out sea cucumber farming operations.
Xi Jinping learned in the "Funing Mansion Chronicles" that there is an official well in the sea area of Sanduao in Xiapu that is rich in large yellow croaker, so he promoted the scientific research of large yellow croaker, solved the technical problems of artificial breeding, and opened a precedent for Ningde to artificially breed large yellow croaker.
Today, Mindong large yellow croaker has become one of the largest marine fish and one of the eight advantageous export aquaculture products in mainland China. More than eighty percent of the country's large yellow croaker is produced in Ningde.
If arable land cannot be given, forests can also be given. In "The Revitalization of Eastern Fujian Lies in the "Forest" - A Strategic Issue of Economic Development in Eastern Fujian", Xi Jinping pointed out that "the forest is a reservoir, a money bank, and a grain bank".
In Fujian, people make full use of the three-dimensional space of the forest, develop the economy under the forest, beekeeping, poultry raising, planting Chinese medicinal materials, cultivating edible fungi, and creating a natural "green food factory". In 2023, the economic utilization area of underforest in Fujian Province will exceed 30 million mu, and the output value will exceed 80 billion yuan.
More than 30 years ago, Xi Jinping used the "big food concept" to explain the change in the concept of agricultural development. Today, China's economic and social development has undergone tremendous changes, and General Secretary Xi Jinping's thinking on the concept of big food has also become more profound.
"The people's food needs are more diversified, which requires us to change our concepts", in December 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed at the Central Rural Work Conference that the cultivated land, grassland, forest and ocean, plants, animals and microorganisms need calories and protein, and develop food resources in all directions.
On December 23 and 24, 2022, the Central Rural Work Conference was held in Beijing.
At the 2022 Central Rural Work Conference, the general secretary explained more vividly that "eating" is not only about consuming food, but also about meat, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, fish, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, etc., and emphasized that "we must build a diversified food supply system".
From the Northeast Linhai to the Loess Plateau, from the Qinba Mountains to the Wumeng Mountains, General Secretary Xi Jinping has come to the planting and breeding bases again and again to inspect the "big food" and care about the people's "happiness on the tip of the tongue".
Watching marine aquaculture on Donghai Island in Guangdong, he said that it is very important to improve the physical fitness of our people, and to improve aquatic products and proteins.
Inspecting the sugar making process in Guangxi, he told the employees that sugar is an important non-staple food, and everyone worked hard to send "sweetness" to thousands of households.
Looking at the greenhouse vegetables in Yudu County, Jiangxi, he held the hands of the villagers and said: "What the Party Central Committee wants is to do everything possible to let the people live a good life." ”
From forests to oceans, the breadth of "big food" continues to expand; From crops to microorganisms, the variety of "big foods" is constantly increasing. The small dining table has quietly changed. Staple food is not "main", non-staple food is not "side", meat, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, aquatic products, etc. are becoming the "main theme" on the tables of urban and rural residents.
In the early days of reform and opening up, 80% of the people's food was staple food, and a bowl of rice with a little pickles, a little chili, and even soy sauce bibimbap was a meal. Now it is common to eat a small bowl of rice and a few dishes every day.
Three meals a day, firewood, rice, oil and salt. On the basis of guaranteeing food rations, making food categories more abundant, food structure more optimized, and food supply more secure, the "big food concept" steadily holds up the happiness of the people's tongues.