To accelerate the development of new quality productivity and promote the high-quality development of food and drugs, the press conference of the China Food (Agricultural Products) and Drug High-Quality Development Conference, as well as the symposium celebrating the 30th anniversary of the "Agricultural Work Communication," was held in Beijing on May 23.
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Participants in this meeting included Yin Chengjie, Special Researcher at the State Council Counselor's Office and former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Zhang Tianzuo, Chief Livestock Officer of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and former Director of the Rural Cooperative Economy Guidance Department; Guo Shutian, Advisor of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee of the China Food and Drug Promotion Association and former Director of the Policy and Regulation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Diao Lijun, Chief Engineer of the Planning and Design Research Institute of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration; Guo Yuhai, Professor at the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology of China Agricultural University and Director of the Chinese Herbal Medicine Research Center; Huang Xinwang, Vice President and Secretary General of the China Food and Drug Enterprise Quality and Safety Promotion Association; and Hu Zhaorong, Director of the Agricultural Economic and Technological Research Institute and Chairman of the Agricultural Economics and Technology Research Institute, among others. The meeting was chaired by Huang Xinwang, Vice President and Secretary General of the China Food and Drug Promotion Association.
During the meeting, President Mao Zhenbin of the China Food and Drug Promotion Association presented an appointment letter to Hu Zhaorong, appointing him as the Chairman of the Agricultural Economics and Technology Research Institute of the China Food and Drug Enterprise Quality and Safety Promotion Association.
In his address, Hu Zhaorong mentioned that the goal of the Agricultural Economics and Technology Research Institute is to reduce health risks for the people, increase the happiness index of the Chinese people, truly implement the Healthy China strategy, with the aim of "letting the kitchen replace the pharmacy" and "letting food replace medicine." The goal is to reduce illness, delay illness, and minimize minor illnesses for the 1.4 billion Chinese people, prioritizing the strategic position of people's health development, addressing weaknesses, strengthening strengths, and comprehensively ensuring the health of the people, bringing more well-being to the 1.4 billion people, and contributing to the healthy development of agriculture.
President Mao Zhenbin delivered a keynote speech at the meeting on "Promoting High-Quality Development of Food (Agricultural Products) and Drugs, Key to Deepening Safety Governance." He emphasized that promoting high-quality development of food (agricultural products) and drugs and deepening safety governance are crucial. This includes deepening human-centered governance of food and drug safety, deepening risk governance of food and drug safety, and deepening social governance of food and drug safety.
He particularly emphasized the need to deepen the scientific application of food and drug supervision. Food and drug supervision science focuses on the activities and laws of food and drug supervision, aiming to improve the quality and efficiency of food and drug supervision work through innovation in regulatory tools, standards, and methods.
Yin Chengjie stated in his address that whether they are state-owned or private enterprises, companies as market entities should transform the theme of high-quality development into autonomous actions for enterprise development. This should be implemented in the practice of enterprise development by strengthening control from the source and ensuring the safety production of agricultural products.
During the meeting, the staff of the Agricultural Economics and Technology Research Institute introduced the development history of the "Agricultural Economics and Technology Research Newsletter." The publication was initially released annually from 1991 to 1994 as a special edition titled "Research on Chinese Agricultural Issues." It was later renamed to "Agricultural Economics and Technology Research Newsletter" and has been submitted by the Agricultural Economic and Technological Research Institute to various central ministries and provincial agricultural and rural authorities. This initiative was supported by Tian Fu, the then Party Secretary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Du Runsheng, the then Director of the Central Rural Policy Research Office. The newsletter has gone through three stages over 35 years, publishing over 4,000 articles totaling approximately 17 million words, receiving praise and recognition from experts within and outside the Ministry of Agriculture.
During the meeting, Mao Zhenbin and Hu Zhaorong presented certificates to ten director units.
