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Qu Zhenyuan expressed his warm welcome for Chen’s visiting. He said that May 28 was also the seventh anniversary of the establishment of the Research Center, and the Research Center has made great achievements in the past few years and provided lots of help for the university’s teaching and research work. Qu Zhenyuan especially thanked Chen Xiwen for his guidance of the center and support of the university.
Ke Bingsheng presided over the meeting. He said that seven years ago, in order to better enhance the development of our university’s Economic disciplines and serve China’s rural economic development, Qu Zhenyuan secretary and former president Chen Zhangliang decided to establish the Center for Rural Development Policy. In addition to the professors in our school, some expert officials from relevant ministries were also invited as researchers and Chen Xiwen was one of them.
Chen Xiwen said that this time he came to China Agricultural University, he felt that the school was getting better and better, more and more vibrant. And he also said that he would do a good job in the Center for Rural Development Policy and gave CAU the greatest support. In the report, Chen Xiwen gave explanations from three aspects: food production and supply of major agricultural products, urbanization and rural construction and development as well as rural land system and agricultural management system for the center researchers and students in the College of Economics and Management.
Chen Xiwen firstly answered the question of winter wheat harvest issue which is extremely concerned by everyone, he said, “based on current situation, in the next two weeks, if there is no extreme special weather, the winter wheat production this year will be more than that of last year.” But he also pointed out that China’s grain supply and prices is general stable, but there are still three problems: first, China’s total agricultural production is not enough, and the food imports increase continuously, especially soybeans and vegetable oil are obviously affected by the international market price fluctuations. Second, the structure is imbalance, especially the geographical imbalance of agricultural products supply and structure of varieties imbalance. Third, the food safety issue will still be prominent in a period of time and this needs the government to continue to strengthen the regulatory and both the technologies and the quality of producers need to be improved.
Chen Xiwen also talked about the relationship between urbanization and rural construction and development. He believed that China’s current urbanization is achieved by purchasing plenty of farmers’ land cheaply, underpaying the laborers for long term and destroying the environment. This mode of urbanization rate will not be able to continue to maintain high growth. He thought that reasonable urbanization and rural construction and development are not conflicted with each other. It is only by practically changing the concept and mode of development, real results can be achieved in urbanization and China’s new rural construction can be better and better.
In the area of rural land system and rural management system, he believes that the rural management system based on household contract management cannot be arbitrarily changed. He also opposed to the implementation in some local areas that unified farming on the land leased by enterprises from farmers. He said that such an approach cannot fully mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and not all the farmers who owned the land can be guaranteed to work in the enterprises. He pointed out that the farmers have to farm their own land, so they can work for themselves. The enterprises can enter the rural areas, but they can only be engaged in the processing and distribution of agricultural products. Chen Xiwen said, the “three agricultural-related issues” are very complicated and he hoped that the students to have a sense of mission and responsibility, to be good at practical work and courageous at doing research and contribute to solving the “three agricultural-related issues”.
Other researchers in the Center for Agricultural Policy Development also attended the meeting, and they are: Yin Chengjie, member of the Standing Committee of NPC and deputy director of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee, Huang Shouhong, deputy director of Research Office of the State Council, Gao Tiesheng, the former secretary of National Food Authority, Han Jun, the deputy director of State Council Development Research Center, Ma Xiaohe, the vice-president of Academy of Macroeconomic Research of National Development and Reform Commission, Song Hongyuan, director of Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, Zhang Dongke, the director of the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Leading Group, Liu Qi, the Deputy Secretary-General of Anhui provincial government and the director of Poverty Relief Office of Anhui Province, Zhao Yang, the Deputy Secretary of Central Financial and Economic Leading Group Office, Guo Wei, Director-General of Rural Department of Research Office of the State Council, Wei Wei, deputy director of China Center for Urban Development of the National Development and Reform Commission, Fang Yan, the Deputy Director-General of Rural Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, Chen Jianbo, the Vice Inspector of Central Financial Leading Group Office, Guo Da, the Secretary-General of Center for Rural Development Policy and Vice-President of China Agricultural University, Xin Xian, the Deputy Secretary-General of Center for Rural Development Policy and Dean of College of Economics and Management, Guo Pei, researcher in Center for Rural Development Policy and Associate Dean of College of Economics and Management, Professor Wang Xiuqing and Chang Qing.
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