The Kick-off meeting of key consulting and research project—“Research on Sustainable Development Strategy of National Regional Food Security in the Context of Internationalization and Greenization” was held in Beijing on the 15th April. The meeting was presided over by academician Liu Xu, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and group leader of the project. More than 50 academicians and experts, including Gai Junyi, vice group leader of the project, Yin Weilun, academician Deng Xiuxin, as well as Chen Jianping, Shan Lun, Liu Guanglin, Li Zhaohu and Chen Daiwen, attended the meeting. Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, served as the important support unit of key consulting projects and the undertaking unit of the comprehensive group. Deputy director Wang Jimin, researcher Wang Xiudong, researcher Liu Jing, associate researcher Zhong Yu, associate researcher Song Lili and post-doctor Yan Yan attended the meeting. 　　　
　　　Vice president Liu Xu introduced the research background and general thought of “Research on Sustainable Development Strategy of National Regional Food Security in the Context of Internationalization and Greenization” project. The project set up the research groups of Northeast, North China, Central China, Southeast Coast, Northwest, Southwest, modern agricultural transformation and development trend as well as the comprehensive group. Each research group separately introduced the implementation plan of each topic from the research target, research contents, technical routes, research method, expected results, research proposal and participants. The participating academicians and experts carried out a heated discussion on perfecting the implementation plan of each topic and the problems of follow-up study to be solved.
　　　Academician Liu Xu stressed in the summary that one is to be guided by scientific consulting supporting the scientific decision and scientific decision leading scientific development, do strategy consultancy well, and do tell the truth, pay attention to new concept, be referable and influential; two is to pay attention to new thinking and new methods in the research, establish a large food concept and consider security of total food, nutrition security, industry security and ecological security from the whole industry chain; third is to grasp the three meanings of food security in new era, that’s, highlighting the entire distribution of food security and achieving “we take the initiative, based on the domestic, ensure the capacity, proper import and scientific support”; highlighting the key tasks of food security and achieving “rations absolute security and grain basic self-sufficiency”; highlighting the industry security and achieving “taking rice bowls own hands and rice bowls mainly storing own foods”; four is that each research group learns from each other in the working method, maintains the characteristics, coordinates the analysis, stresses the key point, pay attention to the integrated innovation, and especially carries out the risk analysis on the strategic consultancy scheme.