关键词: 刘少奇；粮食生产；粮食安全

Abstract: The issue of food has always been an important issue for the party to resolve in the course of revolutionary construction and reform. LIU Shaoqi had a profound understanding of the importance of food, believing that strengthening food production was the first priority for improving peoples livelihood; adequate food supply was a prerequisite for national construction; the unified purchase and sale of food was an important means for socialist transformation; and achieving selfsufficiency in food was an important guarantee for maintaining national security. To solve the grain problem, he stressed the need to work hard to improve production techniques to achieve increased grain production; to strike a balance to achieve coordinated development of grain production and industrial construction; to create a large agriculture with Chinese characteristics; to promote conservation and overcome waste. LIU Shaoqis important discourse on the grain issue is an important theoretical achievement, guided by Marxism and formed in the practice of solving the grain issue during the revolutionary and construction periods, which both enriches and develops the Marxist view of grain and has important practical guidance for solving the grain issue in the new era.

Key words: LIU Shaoqi; food production; food security