Study On The Influence Of Food Security On National Economic Growth

The issue of food is a fundamental issue for the country and the nation.Since the founding of New China,China has made great achievements in ensuring food security and promoting economic and social development that have attracted worldwide attention,while also facing enormous challenges.Especially since entering the 21 st century,multiple factors such as excessive growth in food demand,continuous reduction in production,international price fluctuations,and natural disasters have overlapped and affected China’s food security situation,bringing adverse effects to agricultural development.China is a really big country both in terms of population and agriculture,and it is very important to protect the "rice bowls of Chinese people".In the national governance,the most important thing is to solve the problem of food,and agriculture is the foundation of the entire national economy.According to China’s government work report on the economic development of China in 2020,the target task: "maintain grain production at more than 1.3 trillion jin.This is the first time China’s grain production mentioned in the economic growth target.Food security has always been the cornerstone of national social stability,determining whether the country can stand on its own,whether the people can be self-improvement,whether social stability,and whether economic development.There is a logical connection between food security as the foundation of national security and economic growth as the root of national security.Therefore,this thesis takes 31 provinces,cities and autonomous regions as the research objects,and explores the impact of food security on national economic growth from historical data,which has both theoretical value and practical significance.This thesis firstly analyzes the influence mechanism of food security on national economic growth from a theoretical perspective;secondly,it combines the new concept of food security to construct a new index system for evaluating food security level that includes five aspects of food production security,quality security,consumption security,distribution security and ecological security.Among them,five new indicators are introduced,including financial expenditure on food production,the proportion of food production and marketing,freight volume,total import and export and food trade dependency ratio,etc.Then,based on the entropy value method,we comprehensively evaluate the food security level of the whole country and 31 provinces and autonomous regions,and find that the comprehensive level of food security in China shows an upward trend,but the food security level of each province is widely disparate,among which Shandong,Heilongjiang and Jiangsu regions ranked the top three in order,and Ningxia region ranked the last;finally,this thesis did not only stay at the theoretical level,but also collected panel data from 2000 to 2020,and used quantitative analysis to construct a general panel regression model with a spatial econometric model for empirical research,and found that the consideration of spatial factors enhanced the explanation of food security on national economic growth.The impact of food security on national economic growth and spatial spillover effects were explored immediately afterwards,and it was found that food security in 31 provinces,cities and autonomous regions across China significantly promotes national economic growth in the region and has a negative spillover effect on national economic growth in neighboring regions.In addition,the heterogeneity of the impact of food security on national economic growth in the three major functional food regions was also analyzed,and it was found that the food security in the main marketing area promotes national economic growth more than the balanced production and marketing area than the main production area,i.e.,the main marketing area plays a greater role in promoting food security on national economic growth.In response to the above findings,the following policy recommendations are proposed: first,we should insist on expanding the scale of production,improving the system of food quality and safety,perfecting the food circulation system,attaching importance to the issue of food ecological safety,optimizing the supply structure,and vigorously improving the level of food security,especially for the main grain-producing areas with a relatively backward economic level,we should pay more attention to the issue of coordinated development of food security and economy,and seek new economic development for Second,take stronger measures to intervene,control the rise of food prices,reduce inflationary pressure,raise consumer price levels,and solve the problems of China’s large population,low quality labor force,and difficulties in increasing farmers’ income;third,mitigate the phenomenon of excessive differences in economic development between the main grain-producing areas and the main marketing areas,establish a long-term mechanism of shared responsibility and common benefits,and narrow the differences in the economic development of the three functional grain areas;fourth,the government,through the Fourth,the government should improve the level of food security,promote the income of grain farmers,promote agricultural development,protect the living needs of urban and rural residents,expand domestic demand,and achieve rapid economic development through macro-control.