Food safety affects everyone, with pesticide and veterinary drug residues being significant risks of widespread concern. According to information from a special agricultural conference in the capital’s series of high-quality concluding theme press conferences for the “14th Five-Year Plan,” Beijing’s agricultural product quality and safety leads the nation.
In recent years, Beijing has simultaneously focused on both “production” and “management,” advancing “maintaining baseline standards” and “raising quality standards” together. The city has fully promoted a capital agricultural safety supervision model featuring green production, comprehensive oversight, and high-quality safety. The qualified rate for agricultural product quality safety monitoring in Beijing has ranked among the nation’s top for many consecutive years, reaching 99.1% in the 2024 national routine monitoring, which is 1.1 percentage points higher than the national average.
In terms of “production,” Beijing has upgraded through standardization and green production methods, replacing extensive traditional agricultural practices. This enhances self-control capabilities for agricultural product quality safety at the production source, promoting agricultural production that is safe, reduces pesticide use, increases yield, and improves efficiency. This ensures safety in “production” and increases the supply of safe, high-quality, and distinctive agricultural products.
Beijing has vigorously promoted standardized agricultural production, with related working mechanisms and exemplary experiences leading the nation. The city has established local standards for “Classification and Evaluation Specifications for Agricultural Standardization Bases,” continuously developing standardized base construction across eight aspects and fifty elements. To date, the city has 1,164 agricultural standardization bases, with an annual agricultural product output of 1.227 million tons, accounting for 46.3% of the total “vegetable basket” product volume in the city.
Simultaneously, green and organic production methods have been vigorously promoted. Beijing has innovatively implemented a comprehensive advancement initiative for green agricultural products in crop farming, continuously providing “one-on-one” technical guidance services, and demonstrating and driving production entities to comprehensively enhance green production capabilities. To date, there are 121 green agricultural product enterprises with 432 certified products. The total certified output of green and organic agricultural products has reached 451,800 tons, expected to reach 460,000 tons by the end of the year, achieving the goal of doubling compared to the end of the “13th Five-Year Plan” period.
Beijing has also innovatively launched a special action to enhance the safe, high-quality, and fresh vegetable industry, integrating standardized production technologies from pre-production, production, to post-production. This has formed a demonstration system of 25 key technical standards for safe, high-quality, and fresh vegetables, compiling tailored construction plans for each point, and promoting over 30 demonstration bases to improve production levels and the supply of safe, high-quality, and fresh vegetables.
In terms of “management,” Beijing has strengthened “two foundations,” advancing agricultural safety work towards intelligent supervision characterized by personalized services, differentiated management, precise enforcement, and comprehensive control. This guides and serves production while strictly ensuring agricultural products meet standards before reaching the market.
The foundation for agricultural safety supervision and services has been further strengthened. Initiatives include innovatively conducting township-level agricultural safety management grade evaluations and creating national agricultural product quality safety demonstration counties, continuously solidifying grassroots supervision foundations. Through grid-based supervision, the compliance certificate system for committed standards, and special campaigns targeting key品种 drug residue issues, the “strictest supervision” has been effectively implemented. The innovative introduction of the “Beijing Agricultural Code” has established an information platform for communication between agricultural producers and consumers, displaying scenarios such as agricultural product varieties, production environment, input usage, production management, and product testing. This allows consumers to access more comprehensive process information, more transparent consumption experiences, and deeper trust in agricultural production.
Meanwhile, the agricultural safety detection system and capabilities have been further strengthened. Beijing has established and improved a “3+1” inspection and detection system combining “municipal, district, and township department monitoring” with “enterprise self-inspection.” The implementation of a “four-in-one” monitoring工作机制 (risk investigation, risk assessment, risk detection, and supervision sampling) has been promoted, with annual quantitative sampling exceeding 43,000 batches at the municipal and district levels, and rapid testing reaching 200,000 batches. The cumulative testing parameters for pesticides and veterinary drugs exceed a thousand items, with the detection system capability level ranking among the nation’s top. The monitoring qualified rate for pesticide, veterinary drug, and heavy metal residues in agricultural products remains stable at over 99%.
