Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs organized a plenary meeting of the coordination mechanism of the seed industry revitalization action department in Beijing to inform the progress of the seed industry revitalization action and study the key work arrangements in 2024. Zhang Xingwang, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. The meeting pointed out that since the implementation of the seed industry revitalization action in 2021, all relevant departments and units in all localities have conscientiously implemented the spirit of the important instructions of the general secretary and the best decision-making and deployment, focusing on key areas such as germplasm resource census and collection, breeding research, enterprise support, base construction, and intellectual property protection, improving laws and regulations, strengthening policy support such as fiscal taxation and financial insurance, strengthening departmental coordination and linkage, promoting the basic pioneering and long-term work of the seed industry to make important progress, and successfully completing the "three-year foundation" Phased target tasks.
The meeting emphasized that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a major deployment to accelerate the construction of an agricultural power and consolidate the foundation of food security in an all-round way, and required the in-depth implementation of the seed industry revitalization action. At present, the revitalization of the seed industry is still in the critical stage of overcoming difficulties and climbing over hurdles. The member units of the coordination mechanism should resolutely implement the deployment requirements and the overall arrangement of the seed industry revitalization action plan, adhere to the same direction, refine the 2024 roadmap task book in accordance with the division of responsibilities, and accelerate the implementation of all aspects of the seed industry revitalization action.
The comrades in charge of the departments and bureaus of the member units of the coordination mechanism, the comrades in charge of the relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the comrades in charge of the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court attended the meeting.