Jilin striving to ensure nation's food security

Jilin province in Northeast China has been prioritizing efforts to ensure national food security and striving to make more Jilin grain available to the Chinese people, said Liu Wei, deputy Party chief of the provincial committee.

During a group interview on the sidelines of the ongoing 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Tuesday, Liu said that last year, Jilin's grain output reached 40.4 billion kilograms, ranking the province fifth among the nation's largest grain-producing regions.

Last year, the rate of increase of the province's grain production was highest among those regions, he added.

According to Liu, seven of the top 10 grain producing counties or county-level cities in China are in Jilin, among which Yushu city has ranked first in recent years.

"Jilin province has always been improving farmland management and farming technologies, and has taken the lead in the construction of the national food security industrial belt," he said.

He added that Jilin has supported the innovative development of the modern seed industry. Mechanization used in crop cultivation and harvest in the province has been adopted on 92 percent of its farmland, 20 percentage points higher than the average use of such mechanization in the country.