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"Youth guards China's grain".
National Youth Action Programme to Save Food
(February 22, 2024).
In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the important instructions of the general secretary on saving food for young people, vigorously carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation of hard work, diligence and thrift, and make saving food a common practice among young people and even the whole society, the Communist Youth League, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Administration of Market Supervision, the State Food and Reserves Administration, and the National Committee for Young Workers have carried out a wide range of youth food saving actions nationwide.
1. General requirements
Guided by the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, firmly establish the awareness of food security, actively practice the core values of socialism, fully implement the "Anti-Food Waste Law of the People's Republic of China", and in accordance with the deployment requirements of the "Food Conservation Action Plan", adhere to political guidance, practice education, habit formation, adhere to problem-oriented, goal-oriented, and practice-oriented, and lead the majority of young people to understand the "great man of the country" from the practice of saving food. With a little bit of saving, it will gather into a majestic force to forge ahead on a new journey and contribute to the new era.
By 2028, the work system of youth food conservation will be basically sound, the publicity products and practice carriers of food conservation will be significantly enriched, the incentive and restraint mechanism for food conservation will be more complete, and the persuasion and volunteer service model for food waste behavior will be initially completed, and the youth action will be used to promote food conservation in the whole society.
——Based on organizational advantages, adhere to political guidance. Improve the political position, focus on the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers as the main responsibility and main business of the party's education, run the education of food conservation through the whole process of young people's ideological and political guidance in all aspects, and lay a solid ideological foundation for young people to save food.
-- Focus on key areas and highlight practice in educating people. Grasp the critical period for the formation of young people's habits, persist in educating people through practice, and design activities such as CD-ROM punching, volunteer service, social practice, and scientific and technological innovation in different regions, industries, fields, and age groups for young people in different regions, industries, fields, and ages, to promote the development of food-saving habits among young people.
-- Highlight the effectiveness of mobilization and create a strong atmosphere. Cooperate with relevant ministries and commissions to give full play to the advantages of organization and mobilization to promote the implementation of food conservation work for young people. Cooperate with enterprises in the catering industry to give full play to the advantages of social mobilization and innovate the launch of food-saving project carriers. Cooperate with the Internet platform to give full play to the advantages of network mobilization and create a "new food fashion" that advocates frugality.
-- Improving safeguard mechanisms and encouraging innovation at the grassroots level. Make good use of the selection and commendation incentives for the football group, and increase the selection and commendation of the selection and commendation of outstanding subjects for saving food. Encourage all localities and organizations at all levels to promote the implementation of tasks in accordance with local conditions, and innovatively launch project carriers and theme activities with local characteristics.
2. Theme of action
"Youth guards China's grain".
3. Action content
For youth league members and Young Pioneers, focusing on dining tables, canteens and other dining life scenes, adhere to the principles of universality, ease of implementation, innovation and normalcy, design and launch a series of convenient and sustainable youth food conservation education practice carriers, and continue to strengthen the coordination of relevant policies and mechanisms.
1.Strengthen ideological and political guidance. Implement the spirit of the important instructions of the general secretary of the Communist Party of China to "save food from the baby", guide young people to develop good habits of thrift and thrift, and jointly carry out food conservation publicity and education activities on the Internet platform, so as to create a strong atmosphere of food conservation in the whole society.
-- Carrying out activities on the theme of saving food. Integrate the education on food conservation into the life of the regiment organization and include it in the content of "three meetings, two systems and one lesson". Promote grassroots youth league branches to carry out food-saving theme activities, including but not limited to special learning, labor practice, visit experience, ritual education, essay speeches, social surveys, etc., to forge a solid ideological foundation for young people to save food.
-- Deepening the effectiveness of education on food conservation. Focusing on the important exposition of the general secretary on food security, the international food crisis and the current situation of China's food, the stories of diligence and thrift in ancient and modern China and abroad, and the key points of saving and loss reduction in the whole industrial chain such as grain production, storage, transportation, processing, and consumption, the theme course of food conservation was produced and launched and included in the content of the "Youth Learning" and "Red Scarf Love Learning" platforms, and the stories of food conservation were vividly told with "Qingyan Qingyu" and "Children's Words", so that the virtues of hard work and thrift could take root in the hearts of young people.
-- Creating a food conservation network upsurge. Combined with the National Ecology Day, National Land Day, World Food Day, National Food Security Publicity Week and important festivals, we will work with Internet platforms to carry out publicity and education activities for young people to save food. Through the release of theme posters, advocacy tweets, animations and other publicity products, mobilize party and government organs, universities, enterprises and institutions, online opinion leaders, young people, etc. to participate in the relay of food-saving topics, and carry out the collection of food-saving theme works such as story composition, scene painting, photography, and short, so as to create a good social atmosphere in which everyone pays attention, everyone participates, and everyone practices.
2.Deepening the "CD-ROM Initiative". On the basis of consolidating the existing achievements, we will continue to expand the coverage and influence of the "CD-ROM Campaign" among young people by innovating work carriers, optimizing activity models, and improving operational mechanisms.
-- Carrier of innovative activities. Promote the "CD-ROM Action" to cover all Internet platforms, design and launch functional sections that young people like to see, and guide young people to take the initiative to dry the results of food saving, participate in discussions on food saving topics, and invite friends to relay food saving, so as to improve the sociality and convenience of activities.
-- Strengthening normalized mobilization. Set up provincial, municipal, and county-level "CD-ROM action" teams, scientifically integrate the food saving data of colleges and universities, primary and secondary school students, regularly report the effectiveness of food saving, select trees and food saving models, and create a strong atmosphere of food conservation.
-- Carrying out centralized and unified actions. Seize the important time node, take the Spring Festival and the National Love Food and Food Conservation Publicity Week as an opportunity, and work with relevant departments and units to carry out multiple rounds of large-scale and momentum youth CD-ROM practice activities nationwide.
-- Promoting the transformation of food-saving achievements. Improve the two-way linkage mechanism of "CD-ROM and public welfare", guide young people to convert the number of CD-ROMs into behavior points, and use them to support various public welfare projects, so that the results of food saving can be made concrete and perceptible.
3.Enrich green consumption carriers. Focusing on food and beverage consumption, we have launched "small dishes" products with takeaway platforms, encouraged the catering industry to promote the "green ordering" model, and explored the creation of a "food bank" pilot.
- Promote takeaway "small portions". In conjunction with online food and beverage delivery platforms, promote takeaway businesses to provide products such as "small dishes", "small meals", "one-person meals", and "healthy meals" for consumers to purchase by changing the portion size or proportion of ingredients, and guide young people to quickly purchase through methods such as opening screen reminders and ordering pop-ups.
- Encourage dine-in "green ordering". Encourage and guide food and beverage service operators to actively remind consumers to order an appropriate amount of food, and provide consumers with information such as food portions, specifications, or recommended number of consumers on menu display pages. Relying on the first initiative to launch an initiative for the society, promote green ordering methods such as "small meal ordering".
-- Exploring and improving the "food bank". Encourage food production and operation enterprises to classify and manage expiring food, and innovate and launch models such as "food banks" and "shared granaries".
4.Carry out the Young Pioneers' food-saving and medal contest activities. Combined with the "Saving Medal" in the "Red Scarf Medal" of the Young Pioneers, organize and carry out the activities of saving food and fighting for the medal, stimulate the Young Pioneers' sense of mission and glory in saving food, and guide the Young Pioneers to develop a good habit of saving food.
- Theme Team Day. The Young Pioneers Squadron carries out at least one team day activity with the theme of food conservation every year to promote the Young Pioneers to firmly establish the concept of food conservation. Local youth work committees can carry out exemplary theme team day activities in combination with local characteristics.
-- Medal contention activities. At the beginning of each academic year (semester), the squadron is taken as a unit to clearly take food conservation as an important criterion for Young Pioneers to obtain the "Saving Medal", and guide all Young Pioneers to participate in the food conservation medal competition. According to the age characteristics of the Young Pioneers, the standards are set by category, and activities such as CD-ROM actions, telling stories about food conservation, and writing food saving essays are widely carried out to guide team members to participate in the practice of food conservation.
5.Carry out the practice of food saving theme. Highlight the orientation of practice and education, widely carry out volunteer service activities for food conservation, organize and carry out social practice of food conservation, and mobilize young people to empower food conservation and loss reduction through scientific and technological innovation.
-- Carry out regular volunteer services for food conservation. With the Youth League branch as the unit, organize youth league members to report to the nearest street (township), community (village), and youth home, and participate in volunteer service activities such as popularizing the knowledge of food conservation, persuading and practicing the CD-ROM action, and investigating the situation of food conservation.
-- Do a good job in the practice of social practice of food conservation. Relying on offline positions such as the national food security publicity and education base, we will carry out food-saving social practice activities on a regular basis, and mobilize League organizations and Young Pioneers organizations at all levels to actively participate in visits and apprenticeships, labor education, and exhibitions and exchanges. Regard food conservation as the content of social practice activities such as "going to the countryside", "returning to hometown", and community practice of college students, and set up a "food conservation propaganda group" to carry out theme propaganda activities for young people.
-- Serving food saving and reducing loss in scientific and technological innovation. Relying on the selection and commendation of the Mother River Award, the "Challenge Cup" National College Students' Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, the Youth Science and Technology Achievement Express, and the China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Platform, etc., we will focus on supporting innovation and entrepreneurship projects in the fields of food production technology, storage and transportation loss reduction technology, food processing technology and other food saving and loss reduction science and technology fields. Intensify the docking with enterprises in the industry, mobilize young people on the enterprise side to base themselves on their posts, and make new contributions to promoting food saving and loss reduction technology.
6.Strengthen policy and mechanism safeguards. The system strengthens the incentive and guidance of the commendation and restraint mechanism within the regiment, strengthens the leading role of the "saving chapter" in the "Red Scarf Medal", and holds exchange activities on the theme of saving food.
-- Strengthen the exemplary leadership of young people in saving food. Publicize a number of green team models with outstanding results and distinctive characteristics, promote a set of action guidelines for young people to love food, save food and protect food, and promote food conservation to become a youth action consciousness through the form of learning to catch up.
-- Strengthen the strength of commendations and incentives within the regiment. In the selection and commendation of all types of regimental families at all levels, strengthen the comprehensive consideration of excellent examples of food conservation. The participation of League members in food-saving education, social practice, volunteer service, and other circumstances is to be used as a consideration in the annual education evaluation, and where there is capacity, the evaluation may be carried out in conjunction with the recognition of second classroom credits and the verification of volunteer service hours.
-- Holding forums on the theme of food conservation. Relying on exchange platforms such as the World Youth Development Forum, and uniting relevant enterprises, institutions and university think tanks, we will carry out a series of activities such as keynote speeches, exchanges and sharing, project roadshows, and results release around food security and food loss reduction in the whole chain, so as to demonstrate the wisdom and strength of young people in promoting food security and sustainable development.
Fourth, the work requirements
1.Strengthen organizational leadership. All units should work together, perform their own duties, give full play to their functional advantages, and jointly implement the national action plan for saving food for young people. At the Youth League level, under the leadership of the Youth League, led by the Social Liaison Department, together with the Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Youth Development, the Ministry of Grassroots Construction, the Ministry of Youth and other departments, as well as the Youth Volunteer Action Guidance Center, China Youth Daily, China Children's Press and Publication Group and other directly affiliated units, jointly established a coordination group for youth food conservation. At the level of the provincial Youth League Committee, it is necessary to closely coordinate with relevant departments, clarify the corresponding work forces in light of the actual situation, formulate implementation plans, actively expand the content of activities, and make overall plans for the work of saving food for young people.
2.Pay attention to the effectiveness of work. It is necessary to respect the dominant position of young people, pay attention to grasping the laws of young people's thinking and cognition, and the discourse system of behavior, and use forms and carriers that young people like to see, and carry out distinctive and lively propaganda, education, and practical activities. It is necessary to give full play to the radiation role of the new matrix, and carry out a series of publicity such as food saving reports, typical character publicity, and youth practice stories on a regular basis, so as to create a good atmosphere for youth food protection in the whole society.
3.Mobilize the grassroots extensively. Grassroots league organizations are encouraged to combine local conditions and go deep into campuses, enterprises, institutions, communities, villages, and military camps, enriching the forms of carriers for young people's practice of saving food, and running through all aspects and the entire process of young people's study, work, and life. Attention should be paid to giving play to the role of youth social organizations and taking them as an important force in strengthening the education of young people in saving food. Strengthen guidance for grassroots work, promptly summarize and promote successful experiences and innovative practices, and promote the formation of a good momentum of bottom-up and vigorous development of the national youth food conservation action.
4.Implement work evaluation. Strengthen work contacts, track and monitor the implementation of the program, scientifically evaluate the progress, and track the effectiveness of the work on a quarterly basis. Strengthen work supervision, take the national youth food conservation action as an important part of the assessment and evaluation of the Communist Youth League, and earnestly form a vivid situation in which the whole youth league works together to promote the practice of youth food conservation education.
Editor丨Jian Beiqian Editor丨Meng Shiqi Review丨Cheng Yuan Duty Editorial Board丨Zhang Yu
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