The Chief Executive, Mr Lee Ka-chiu, went to the Legislative Council Q&A session to explain the new government’s policy direction. He revealed that the government will definitely fulfill its responsibility to safeguard national security. In addition to enacting Article 23 of the Basic Law as soon as possible, it should also be extended to different areas of security. , including financial security, food security, system security, etc. are equally important to deal with security risks in different fields.
Hong Kong has lived in a peaceful and prosperous age for too long. It lacks not only the concept of safeguarding national security, but also the awareness of dealing with major crises.
For the government to review security in different areas, there should be two levels:
1. Local security in Hong Kong. In the event of a major shock, disaster or war in Hong Kong, is there a pre-arranged internal response.
2. National security. When the country as a whole encounters a major shock, disaster or war, can Hong Kong help prevent or respond to it?
This includes prior risk assessment, sand table deduction, setting up plans, and making preparations in all aspects.
Just take the example of food safety, and there is a lot of articles.
Ho Pei Shan, the first female head of the Hong Kong Customs, took office last October. She mentioned that following the implementation of the “Hong Kong National Security Law”, to safeguard national security, the Customs will also cooperate with national policies to combat smuggling activities, just like the earlier joint operation with the mainland to combat smuggling in Australia lobster.
Afterwards, some people roared on the Internet, pointing out why the crackdown on smuggling lobsters in Australia is related to national security. He Peishan pointed out that food safety is also one of the areas of national security. The country has a policy to prohibit the import of Australian lobster, and Hong Kong has the responsibility to assist in anti-smuggling.
In fact, critics have no concept of national security. China and Australia have disputes. China does not import Australian lobster. The first thing Hong Kong people think of is to have cheap lobster to eat, not to help the country maintain security.
Food safety is a major area of national security. The first is that in case of chaos, China is a big country with a population of 1.4 billion, will there be enough food reserves?
The first issue is grain reserves. China has been consciously increasing its strategic grain reserves. After the Russian-Ukrainian war started in February this year, the US media “Wall Street Journal” discovered that, from a global perspective, only a few countries such as China have enough food stocks to cope with the food shortage caused by the Ukraine war. China currently has the world’s largest grain reserves, holding 50% of the world’s wheat reserves and 70% of the world’s corn reserves, which can release strategic reserves to help people avoid the suffering of rising food prices, “in this round of China is the most prepared in a global dilemma.”
The second is entry seed security. China mentioned this issue a lot in 2020. At that time, the authoritative state media found through interviews that among the main crops in China, rice and soybean seeds are basically domestic varieties, and the localization rate of wheat varieties is also high. Potato seeds are partly dependent on imports, and many vegetable varieties rely heavily on foreign seeds. As the foundation of modern agriculture, China’s agriculture has been concerned regarding the problem of “stuck neck” by foreign countries.
International seed industry giants control the Chinese seed industry market fiercely. More than 70 international seed companies, including the top ten global seed companies, have entered China, and a large number of foreign seeds have penetrated into the fields. More than 20 corn varieties from American Pioneer Company have fully covered the northeast and Huanghuaihai regions of China’s main grain producing areas. In the past few years, China has sought remedies, one of which has been reverse investment in foreign countries.
The third is the problem of breeding pigs. One of the reasons for the high price of pork in China is that breeding pigs are dependent on foreign countries, which is expensive. Seed industry is the cornerstone of agriculture, and China’s breeding pig industry has always lacked high-quality original breeding pig resources. Due to the blockade imposed by the developed countries on the introduction of great-grandfather stock pigs to China, China has always been able to introduce the fast-degrading grandfather stock pigs, which usually degenerate following three years of reproduction. A vicious cycle of re-degeneration. The demand for breeding pigs is huge, with 13 million sows and more than 300,000 boars being replaced every year. This is another problem of being “stuck in the neck” by foreign countries.
China relies on scientific research breakthroughs. In June this year, the research team of Nankai University and the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, for the first time in the world, realized the whole process of replication by automatic robot operation, and “bred” seven replica purebred landrace pigs. Born on March 31st this year. It is an effective solution to solve the problem of breeding pigs by multiplying the original breeding pigs of the grandparents in large quantities by the replication technology.
If you think China’s food security issues seem to be far away from us, what regarding finance? What is the problem with our financial system being “stuck” by foreign countries? You can learn from Grandpa’s decision-making model for food security and do a comprehensive study to prevent problems before they occur.
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