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for realizing the market value of ecosystem goods and services.
9. We ensured security in the pursuit of development, further bolstering the

foundations for safe development.
Staying committed to a holistic approach to national security, we promoted
national security in all areas and stages of economic and social development and
ensured the security of food, energy, and resources as well as industrial and
supply chains.
1) Our ability to guarantee food security was consolidated and enhanced.

We ensured that both Party committees and governments assume
responsibility for ensuring food security, reformed systems and mechanisms for
grain reserves, purchase, and marketing, and worked faster to establish a more
advanced, effective, efficient, and sustainable system to guarantee national food

security.
We properly regulated the grain industry, strengthened adjustment of grain
imports and exports, and sold public stockpiles of grain in a rational manner, thus
guaranteeing stable operation of the grain market. Giving full play to mechanisms
for ensuring supply and price stability of fertilizers, we secured the fertilizer

supply, particularly potash fertilizer, in an active yet prudent manner. The
development of supply chains for grain import made steady progress, and China’s
grain import sources were diversified.
2) Energy and resource security was ensured.

We strengthened our systems for energy production, supply, storage, and
marketing, effectively coped with grave challenges posed by extreme high
temperatures and droughts, and ensured generally stable supply during peak
demand in summer and winter. We improved our capacity for securing the basic
coal supply, made sure that all coal for power generation is covered by medium-

and long-term contracts, and guaranteed the stable supply of coal for power
generation. We strengthened management of unplanned outage and output
decreases of coal-fired power generators. Leveraging the scale of China’s grids, we
arranged electricity transmission across regional and provincial borders, greatly

easing shortages of power in east, central, and southwest China.
We worked hard to increase the reserves and output of petroleum and natural
gas, intensified efforts for domestic oil and gas exploration and development,
discovered more untapped reserves, and sped up the pace of oil and gas
production and brought it to projected capacity more quickly, thus reinforcing our

foundations for stable supply of oil and natural gas. Arrangements were made for
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