When are World Food Day and National Food Love and Food Saving Awareness Week in 2017?

October 16, 2017 is the 37th World Food Day, and the week it falls in is my country’s 27th National Food Love and Food Saving Publicity Week. On October 16, the State Grain Administration, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the All-China Women's Federation and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations jointly hosted the main venue event of the 2017 World Food Day and the National Food Love and Food Savings Publicity Week in Beijing.

The event was announced on site and awards were given to the first National Food Love and Food Festival Stars, and the launch ceremony of the high-quality grain project was held. More than 600 people including government cadres, grain and oil enterprise employees, college students, community residents' representatives and some representatives of advanced typical figures who love food and save food participated in the event. Publicity activities were held simultaneously in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country.

The theme of this year’s World Food Day, “Changing the Future of Migration—Investing in Food Security and Promoting Rural Development,” fully reflects the high level of concern for food security issues in the context of population migration, and for a developing country with a large population like ours. For the country, it is of particularly important practical significance.

After years of hard work, our country has not only successfully solved the problem of feeding the people across the country, but also made significant contributions to world food security. The current conflict between food supply and demand is structural and phased. The mid- to long-term situation will remain tightly balanced, and there is still a long way to go to ensure national food security.

This year’s food-loving and food-saving publicity week, with the theme of “food-loving, food-saving and food-saving to ensure safety, high-quality food and good prices to increase income”, aims to guide the whole society to take action to reduce food waste, Increase effective supply.

At present, the national conservation activities are carried out in depth, the phenomenon of extravagance and waste has been effectively curbed, and the love of food and the saving of food have become a common practice. We must vigorously advocate scientific and civilized consumption methods, and continue to create a strong atmosphere of "it is glorious to cherish food and shameful to waste food" .