Li Qiang emphasized the importance of advancing irrigation and the construction of high-standard farmland, and emphasized the high-quality promotion of high-standard farmland construction.

On November 7th, the State Council held a national video conference on winter and spring farmland irrigation and the construction of high standard farmland. Li Keqiang, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, recently made important instructions on promoting farmland irrigation and the construction of high standard farmland. The instructions pointed out that all regions and relevant departments should adhere to storing grains in the ground and grains in technology, implement a new round of action to increase grain production capacity by 100 billion kilograms, promote the construction of high standard farmland with high quality, strengthen the modernization and reconstruction of large and medium-sized irrigation areas, coordinate the repair and treatment of farmland ditches, strengthen governance in flood-prone plains, further enhance agricultural disaster prevention and reduction capabilities; improve the whole process management mechanism, strictly control project quality, strengthen input guarantees and fund supervision, attract more farmers and social forces to participate, and make greater contributions to ensuring national food security and accelerating agricultural and rural modernization.