[Lushan Lecture Room] Cheng Shengkui, the President of China Society of Natural Resources, Gave a Lecture with the Theme of "From Resource Flow To National Food Safety"

2019-10-26

On October 19, Cheng Shengkui, the President of China Society Of Natural Resources, the Researcher of Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, the Editor of Journal of Natural Resourcesand the Chief Scientist of key project "Research on National Nutrition and Food Safety Strategy" arranged by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was invited to give Lecture 97 of "Lushan Lecture Room", with the theme of "from resource flow to national food safety". The lecture was presided over by Li Jilin, the Secretary of the Party Committee of School of Tourism Management, and over 150 representatives participated in the lecture.

Firstly, the Director General Cheng Shengkui displayed the food waste amount per capita in several China's major cities and revealed the food wastage problem of resources in the consumption link in combination with the survey data and by taking the flow process of resources such as the forest, corn, soybean, etc. as example. Then, he analyzed the development status of food supply and demand and proposed the relevant suggestions such as the differentiated development, etc. Currently, the resource and its products flow at high speed. The benefit compensation, resource configuration, fairness and efficiency and geopolitical relations are involved in the flow process of resources. The grain isn't the trade object and has become the method of national diplomacy even the geopolitics. Finally, he appealed students to establish the national food security concept in new era, to pay attention to the reasonable table consumption and refuse the comparison-type and waste-type consumption.

In the interactive link, the Director General Cheng Shengkui carried out the enthusiastic discussions with students in terms of the food waste situation, sustainable development of resources, Three Rural Issues, etc., and looked forward to China's food development strategy. (School of Tourism Management Tan Jiaxin)