Agriculture is a key area for China-Africa cooperation and a meeting point for important interests. Since the Beijing Summit of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum in 2006, China and African countries have joined hands to promote agricultural cooperation. So far, it has gone through 12 years. The concern of leaders of Central African countries. Under the support of the leadership and leadership, the internships of the parties in the inauguration of the spirit of the initiative of the Chairman of the Central African Republic and the Commonwealth of the Commonwealth, the great achievements in promoting agricultural cooperation, and a new historical starting point. Facing the new era, further deepening the prospects for China-Africa agricultural cooperation We will take this opportunity of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum Beijing Summit to deepen all-round cooperation, enhance the quality of development, and help China-Africa cooperation reach a new level.
In the past 12 years, China and Africa have adhered to mutual benefit, cooperation and mutual benefit, and promoted agricultural cooperation to achieve remarkable results.
After 12 years of hard work, the Chinese government has always practiced the 'true and sincere' policy and correct concept of righteousness and interests, and together with African governments, fully implemented the agricultural achievements of successive summits of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, and pragmatically carried out agricultural policies, science and technology, and talents. , trade, investment and other all-round exchanges and cooperation, while effectively promoting agricultural modernization in Africa, improving food security, enriching the supply of agricultural products, and further expanding the space for agricultural development in China and Africa, achieving mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.
The policy dialogue has been strengthened and the strategic docking has been smoother. China and African countries will always strengthen intergovernmental policy dialogue as an important starting point for promoting China-Africa agricultural cooperation, and attach importance to sharing experiences and practices in China's agricultural and rural development and poverty alleviation. At the multilateral level, China is striving to build a platform for China-Africa agricultural policy dialogue, holding regular meetings, inviting agricultural officials, experts and scholars from both sides to exchange and share their development concepts and practical experiences, promoting the five-year plan for China's rural economic and social development, agricultural modernization development planning and other comprehensive agricultural development in Africa. The plans are linked to each other and learn from each other. At the bilateral level, China has signed a memorandum of understanding or protocol on agricultural cooperation with 16 African countries covering various fields such as seed industry, animal husbandry, agricultural machinery, inspection and quarantine, and established bilateral agricultural associations or The working group mechanism, carrying out various forms of agricultural policy exchanges, promoting the effective docking of national agricultural development strategies, and laying a solid institutional foundation for China-Africa agricultural cooperation and win-win.
The technical exchanges have been deepened and the service support has become more powerful. The Chinese side attaches great importance to and actively promotes agricultural science and technology exchanges between China and Africa. At present, it has assisted 20 agricultural technology demonstration centers in 19 African countries to focus on demonstrating China's advanced agricultural variety technology and building multi-bilateral technologies. Cooperation platform to explore sustainable operation of market-oriented commercialization. 71 foreign aid experts including agricultural technology, vocational education and senior consultants were dispatched to 37 African countries, totaling 724 person-times, imparting agricultural management experience and guiding local farmers to improve agricultural comprehensive production capacity. Carry out '10+10' cooperation between Chinese and African scientific research institutions, carry out joint research and research and development around new varieties of new technologies and equipments for the African continent. Up to now, China has cumulatively tested more than 300 varieties of crops in African countries. More than 500 technologies, about 1 million small farmers benefited from it, providing important scientific and technological support and service guarantee for African agricultural development.
Economic and trade cooperation has been continuously upgraded and development momentum has become stronger. In recent years, with the joint efforts of all countries, China-Africa agricultural investment and agricultural trade have grown rapidly. In 2017, the total agricultural trade between China and Africa exceeded US$6 billion, an increase of 185.3 over 2006. %, of which China imported oilseeds, cotton and linen, and other agricultural products from Africa by 2.94 billion US dollars, an increase of 143%. Good trade relations have created favorable conditions for Chinese companies to invest in Africa. By the end of 2017, Chinese companies have invested 500 in Africa. There are 117 agricultural projects with an investment of over RMB 10,000, and more than two-thirds of African countries have an investment of 14.83 billion yuan, covering crop farming, agricultural product processing, fisheries, etc. Sustainable and healthy agricultural trade cooperation has enriched the agricultural market of both sides. Supply has promoted agricultural production capacity optimization and industrial transformation and upgrading in Africa.
People's exchanges are constantly close, and South-South cooperation is deeper. Since 2006, China and African countries have extensively carried out agricultural talent exchange activities, and held 337 training courses to train agricultural officials, technicians and vocational education students for African countries over 57,000. It has stockpiled a group of African agricultural development talents and cultivated a large number of sincere ambassadors who have passed on the friendship between China and Africa. It has greatly enhanced the mutual understanding and traditional friendship between the Chinese and African people, and has fostered the public opinion base of China-Africa agricultural cooperation. China and the United Nations FAO (FAO) signed the “Chinese Government and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Letter of Intent on South-South Cooperation”, becoming the first country to establish a strategic alliance with FAO for South-South cooperation, and donated a trust fund to support the agricultural sector. South Cooperation. Since the launch of the Trust Fund in 2008, China has cooperated with FAO in the development of a tripartite South-South cooperation project, and carried out agricultural technology demonstration demonstration activities at more than 60 project sites in Africa. It has been warmly welcomed by African governments and people and won wide international community. Acclaimed, the Director-General of FAO has repeatedly publicly appreciated China as the 'leader of global South-South agricultural cooperation'. .
China-Africa agricultural cooperation has broad prospects, it is necessary to seize opportunities and take advantage of the trend.
After long-term development, the quality and efficiency of China's agricultural development has been continuously improved, showing distinct characteristics and outstanding advantages in terms of resource conditions, market demand, and scientific and technological information. African countries have a strong expectation of sharing China's agricultural development achievements and experience, and their cooperation needs are even stronger. Urgently, China-Africa agricultural cooperation stands at a new historical starting point, facing rare development opportunities and broad prospects for cooperation.
Responding to the global food crisis and ensuring food security. China-Africa cooperation has great potential. Safeguarding food security is a major global issue and a fundamental task for China's and African countries' agricultural development. At present, the world's agricultural development is facing frequent climate disasters and tight resource constraints. Outstanding problems such as increased market volatility, the food crisis is frequent in some African countries, increasing the comprehensive grain production capacity and increasing food supply are still the top priorities for the development of African countries. China is the most populous country in the world and a country with scarce agricultural resources. China The government attaches great importance to food security and has always solved the problem of eating more than one billion people as the top priority for the administration of the country. In recent years, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the implementation of the concept of 'grass in the land, grain in the technology' Intensify policy support, fully mobilize governments at all levels to pay more attention to grain and hundreds of millions of peasants and farmers to grow grain, and the grain output has exceeded 1.2 trillion jin for five consecutive years. China uses less than 10% of the world's arable land and 6.5%. The fresh water resources around the world have fed 20% of the world’s population and have made important contributions to world food security. Important reference value.
China will work with African countries to adhere to the prominent position of consolidating and upgrading Africa's comprehensive food production capacity in China-Africa agricultural cooperation, and work with African countries to reduce hunger and malnutrition and ensure food security.
Strengthening the promotion and application of new varieties, new technologies and new equipment, and promoting the great potential of agricultural science and technology innovation in China and Africa. Excellent varieties, advanced technology and agricultural machinery and equipment are important signs of agricultural modernization. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China has insisted on agricultural science and technology innovation as agriculture. The leading role of modernization, multi-measures to promote the introduction of absorption and innovation and original innovation, accumulated a lot of experience in technological innovation and promotion and application. At present, China's major crops have basically achieved full coverage of comprehensive varieties, and the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvesting exceeds 66%. The contribution rate of agricultural science and technology progress reached 57.5%, breaking through major core technologies such as hybrid rice, hybrid corn, genetically modified insect-resistant cotton, and research and development of more than 150 high-efficiency, low-residue, low-poison pesticides. These achievements and achievements will be for African countries. Different types and sizes of agricultural production and management entities provide rich and diverse material conditions to support, and at the same time help China and African countries to carry out in-depth research on agricultural varieties, technologies and equipment, innovative application models, promote agricultural development, improve quality and efficiency, and transform upgrade.
Taking advantage of market resources and deepening agricultural trade, China-Africa cooperation has great potential. China has become the world's largest agricultural product consumer market and an important source of direct foreign investment. Currently, it is vigorously implementing the rural revitalization strategy and deepening the structural reform of the agricultural supply side. Promoting high-quality agricultural development will bring new opportunities for deepening agricultural cooperation. With the rapid upgrading of Chinese residents' consumption capacity and consumption structure, the demand for quality and safe agricultural products will grow rapidly, and the import of agricultural products will continue to increase. It will provide African countries with prospective agricultural product export markets. In recent years, the agricultural and rural economic development of African countries has shown a good momentum and huge investment demand. Deepening China-Africa agricultural investment and trade cooperation can not only find a 'hot land' for Chinese investment. It can also increase the income of farmers in African agricultural exporting countries and investment target countries, and transform the agricultural resources advantages of African countries into capacity advantages and development advantages.
New era and new actions, comprehensively opening a new journey of China-Africa agricultural cooperation
In the new era, President Xi Jinping's initiative to build a community of human destiny has become more and more influential internationally. The initiative to build the 'One Belt, One Road' initiative has won enthusiastic response from more and more countries. China-Africa comprehensive strategic partnership is at the best level in history. China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and all relevant parties will continue to uphold the true concept of mutual sincerity, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, jointly implement the various agriculture-related initiatives of the Beijing Summit, strengthen top-level design, innovate forms of cooperation, sink the focus of cooperation, and promote China-Africa agriculture. The results of the cooperation will benefit each other's agricultural and rural development, and better benefit the hundreds of millions of peasant brothers.
Strengthen the top-level design of China-Africa agricultural cooperation. Effectively connect China-Africa to build the 'One Belt and One Road', the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the AU's "2063 Agenda" and African countries' development strategies, and jointly develop a China-Africa agricultural modernization cooperation plan. Clarify the key areas of China-Africa agricultural cooperation in the next stage, key tasks, key projects and implementation paths, and build a 'four beams and eight pillars' for agricultural cooperation between China and Africa.
Establish and improve the China-Africa agricultural cooperation mechanism. Strengthen cooperation with the AU, promote the establishment of the China-African Agricultural Cooperation Committee, and regularly hold the China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Forum, and strive to build a platform for convergence of consensus, exchange of policies, sharing of experience, and promotion of economic and trade mechanisms. Implement the bilateral agricultural cooperation documents that have been signed, make full use of the bilateral agricultural cooperation committee or working group mechanism, and solidly promote all-round practical cooperation between China and Africa.
Innovate the form of China-Africa agricultural technology cooperation. Further integrate and utilize the '10+10' mechanism of China-Africa agricultural scientific research institutions, aid non-agricultural technology demonstration centers, aid non-agricultural experts, domestic and overseas training and other resources, and strengthen joint research and development and training of agricultural technology. We will give full play to the advantages of agricultural South-South cooperation and tripartite cooperation resources, disseminate China's experience, interpret China's programs, promote China's practices, and help African countries improve their agricultural development capabilities.
Pragmatically promote China-Africa agricultural economic and trade cooperation. Build a non-agricultural cooperation demonstration park, improve agricultural infrastructure such as roads, farmland water conservancy and irrigation, and actively encourage and guide China-Africa strong and reputable enterprises to enter the park, engage in agricultural production and processing. , warehousing and logistics, play the role of radiation in the park, cultivate a group of agricultural leaders who have technology, understand the market, and operate for Africa, promote the sustainable and healthy development of China-Africa agricultural investment cooperation and agricultural trade, and promote the employment of local farmers.