Xi delivers written remarks at International Forum on Hybrid Rice Assistance and Global Food Security - SHINE

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a written code astatine the International Forum connected Hybrid Rice Assistance and Global Food Security, which was held Saturday successful Beijing.

In his speech, Xi noted that nutrient information is cardinal to quality survival. Half a period ago, hybrid atom was archetypal successfully developed and planted wide successful China. Thanks to this technology, China has managed to provender astir 20 percent of the world's colonisation with little than 9 percent of the world's arable land, and has go the largest nutrient shaper and the 3rd largest nutrient exporter successful the world.

From 1979, hybrid atom began to beryllium introduced to the world, benefitting astir 70 countries crossed 5 continents. This has been a singular publication to their atom output summation and cultivation development, and offered a Chinese solution to nutrient shortages successful processing countries, Xi said.

At present, planetary nutrient information faces terrible challenges and complexities. China volition proceed to enactment with each countries successful a tone of solidarity and shared aboriginal to beforehand the Global Development Initiative, standard up practice connected nutrient information and poorness reduction, and marque a greater publication to the speedy implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to gathering a satellite escaped from hunger and poverty, said the Chinese president.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the forum, wherever helium work retired the written connection of Xi.

Wang said the recently-concluded 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China declared that China volition marque caller contributions to quality improvement with Chinese modernization and supply caller opportunities for the satellite with China's caller development.

Hybrid atom exertion is simply a monument successful the past of cultivation subject and exertion successful China, which not lone helps China execute the occurrence of nutrient self-sufficiency, but besides makes an important publication to solving the planetary nutrient shortage, Wang noted.

China has made nutrient information 1 of the precedence areas successful implementing the Global Development Initiative, Wang said, adding that China is consenting to marque associated efforts with different countries and planetary organizations to marque caller and greater contributions to safeguarding satellite nutrient information and achieving the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The forum was co-hosted by the China International Development Cooperation Agency, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration.