我们也清醒认识到，中国家庭农业的进一步发展，面临着规模过小的制约，平均每户只有半公顷的耕作面积。在解决温饱问题的时候，农民在自己承包的小块土地上精耕细作，但要更大规模提高农产品产量和质量，小规模经营就显示出其局限性。中国农业生产要再上新台阶，必须适度扩大经营规模，提高劳动生产率、土地产出率，走农业现代化之路。中国正处在城镇化快速推进的阶段，预计从现在起到2020年，将有2亿左右的农村人口陆续到东、中、西部地区的城镇落户。这会为农民扩大耕种规模创造条件，给农民带来更多实际利益，也会给农业现代化提供更大发展空间。
 
At the same time, however, we must be fully aware that the further development of China’s family farming is still constrained by its small scale, as each household only has an arable land of about half a hectare. Farmers work on their contracted patches intensively so that they can feed themselves, but to further improve the output and quality of agricultural products, small-scale farming is inadequate. To take China’s agricultural production to a new level, we must appropriately expand operational scale, enhance labor productivity and land output and follow the path of agricultural modernization. China is at the stage of accelerated urbanization. The forecast is that by 2020, about 200 million people will migrate from rural to urban areas in China’s eastern, central and western regions, and this will create conditions for farmers to expand the scale of farming and will in turn bring them more real benefits and greater development space for agricultural modernization.
 
中国是一个人口大国，国情复杂，在推进农业现代化的进程中，我们将坚持家庭经营在农业中的基础性地位，推进多种形式的农业经营方式创新。在严格保护农民土地权益、尊重农民意愿的基础上，鼓励有条件的农户流转土地经营权，鼓励农民联合与合作。这几年，中国家庭农场已增加到87万家，平均规模达到13公顷（200亩），农民专业合作社数量超过110万家，成为农业现代化的重要力量和发展方向。以家庭经营为基础，推进适度规模经营，发展现代农业，有利于更好地“供养中国”，也会对世界粮食安全作出贡献。
 
China is a big populous country with complex national conditions. In the process of agricultural modernization, we will stick to the fundamental role of family farming in agriculture and continue to promote multi-form innovative ways of agricultural operation. On the basis of effectively protecting farmers’ land rights and interests and respecting their will, we encourage farmers, as their conditions are ready, to transfer their land management right to others; we also encourage farmers’ union and cooperation. In recent years, the number of Chinese household farms has increased to 870,000, with an average scale of 13 hectares (or 200 mu), and farmers’ cooperatives, exceeding 1.1 million in number, have become an important force and development direction in agricultural modernization. To promote farm operation with an appropriate scale and develop modern agriculture on the basis of family farming will help better feed China, thus contributing to world food security.
 
中国政府高度重视农业，始终坚持立足国内实现粮食基本自给。同时，也高度重视农业可持续发展。我们用低于世界平均水平的耕地和淡水资源，解决了世界近20%人口的吃饭问题，这本身体现了一种集约。但我们不满足于此，还要进一步促进农业高效集约发展。与此同时，加强生态保护与建设，实施好退耕还林、天然林保护、防沙治沙、水土保持、草原治理等工程，支持农民改良土壤、减少污染、大规模建设高标准农田。通过努力，促进农业资源的永续利用，既满足当代人需要，也为子孙后代留下良田沃土、碧水蓝天。保护中国生态，也是关爱地球、保护地球。
 
The Chinese government attaches great importance to agriculture and has always managed to ensure basic self-supply of food by relying on domestic production. At the same time, the Chinese government also gives priority to sustainable agricultural development. We have managed to feed nearly 20% of the world’s population with a share of arable land and fresh water resources lower than world average. That in itself is intensive operation. But that’s not enough. We still need to further promote efficient and intensive agricultural development. At the same time, we will further enhance ecological protection and improvement and effectively implement such projects as returning farmland to forests, protecting natural forests, desertification prevention and control, water and land conservation and grassland management. We will support farmers in their efforts to improve the soil, reduce pollution and develop high-standard farmland on a large scale. Such efforts will promote the sustainable use of agricultural resources, thus not only serving the need of the people in our time but also passing on fertile land, green water and blue sky to our future generations. In that sense, protecting China’s ecology is also one way of caring for the earth and protecting our planet.

女士们，先生们！
 
Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
人人有饭吃，是人类最基本的生存权利，是一切人权的基础。全球农业发展取得了长足的进步，但饥饿和贫困依然是一种“无声的危机”，是深深困扰全人类的“阿喀琉斯之踵”。目前世界上还有8亿多贫困人口面临着食物不足、营养不良的威胁。促进农业发展，消除饥饿和贫困，依然是世界面临的重大挑战，也是全人类肩负的共同责任。国际社会应当携起手来，加强农业合作，更多关注发展中国家、尤其是一些最不发达国家的诉求。应减少贸易保护，加强对最不发达国家农业技术、资金等支持，提高全球农业生产水平和粮食安全保障水平。
 
Food for all is, for mankind, the most fundamental right of survival, which serves as the basis for all other human rights. Great progress has been made in the global agricultural development. Yet hunger and poverty have remained a “silent crisis”. They are like the “Achilles heel”, deeply troubling all human beings. Over 800 million poor people in the world still face the threat of food shortages and malnutrition. To promote agricultural development and eradicate hunger and poverty remains a major challenge of the world and a common responsibility of mankind. The international community may join hands to enhance agricultural cooperation and pay greater attention to the calls of developing countries, in particular certain least developed countries (LDCs). Efforts should be made to curb trade protectionism and increase the technical and financial assistance to the agricultural sector of the LDCs so as to raise the global agricultural productivity and increase food security.
 
中国与世界各国特别是发展中国家的农业合作发展很快。近些年，我们在亚洲、非洲、拉美、太平洋等地区近100个国家，建立了农业技术示范中心、农业技术实验站和推广站，先后派遣农业专家和技术人员3万余人次，同时帮助这些国家培养了一大批农业技术人员。我们这一代中国人经历过饥饿的痛苦，我们与仍处在饥饿状态的人们感同身受，我们希望看到饥饿和贫困在全球被消灭，我们愿意与各国分享农业技术、经验和农业发展模式。中国的杂交水稻良种已经使很多国家受益。这里我宣布，未来5年，中国政府将向联合国粮农组织捐赠5000万美元用于开展农业南南合作，并加大对世界粮食计划署和国际农发基金的支持。
 
China’s agricultural cooperation with other countries, in particular developing countries, has been on the fast track. In recent years, we have set up agricultural technology demonstration centers, experimental stations and promotion stations in nearly 100 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific. We have sent over 30,000 agricultural experts and technicians to these countries and helped them to train a large number of technicians of their own. The Chinese of my generation had suffered from hunger, so we share the feelings with people who are still suffering from hunger. We hope to see hunger and poverty eliminated in the whole world and we are willing to share with other countries agricultural technologies, experience and development models. In fact, China’s improved hybrid rice strains have already benefited many countries. Here I wish to announce that the Chinese government will donate US$50 million to the FAO in the next five years for carrying out South-South cooperation on agriculture and will increase support to the WFP and the IFAD.
 
女士们，先生们！
 
Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
中国作为世界上最大的发展中国家，任何时候都是维护世界粮食安全的积极力量。尽管中国农业进一步发展面临不少困难，但我们仍将不懈努力，用行动来兑现诺言，主要依靠自己的力量解决好吃饭问题。我们愿与世界各国携手奋进，共同创造一个无饥饿、无贫困、可持续发展的世界。
 
As the largest developing country, China will always be an active force for safeguarding world food security. Although China faces quite a few difficulties ahead in its agricultural development, we will continue to work tirelessly to deliver on our commitment through actions. We will ensure adequate food supply mainly on our own. We are ready to work with countries around the world to create a world of sustainable development that is free from hunger and poverty.
 
刚才总干事先生赠送我一本书，介绍他的国家提高粮食产量、减少饥饿的经验。我赠送给他一本反映大自然美好风光的画册。人们只有吃饱了饭，才有欣赏自然风光的心境，才有更高的精神追求。打牢粮食这个人类发展最重要的基础，人们的物质和精神生活才会更加美好，世界才会更加美好。谢谢各位！
 
The Director-General just now gave me a book about his country’s experience in raising grain output and reducing hunger, and I returned him with an album of beautiful natural sceneries. I believe that only when people have had enough food in their stomach, will they be in the mood to enjoy the beauty of nature and pursue a life of higher cultural attainment. Only when we could ensure the production and supply of food as the most important foundation for human development, will the people enjoy better material and cultural life and the world become a better place for us to live in. Thank you.