CHINA / SOCIETY Breeding resources, gene technology key to food security: experts By Global Times reporter covering international affairs, cross-Straits relations and Chinese society; a captive of his experiences. Wang Qi and Yin Yeping Published: Mar 03, 2021 08:58 PM Updated: Mar 03, 2021 08:58 PM An owner of a hog farm in Qiongjie county, Shannan, Tibet autonomous region, vaccinates a piglet on April 21, 2020. Photo:Xinhua Chinese legislators and political advisors have called for a higher level of self-sufficiency in seed supply and the improved breeding of livestock and poultry to reduce the risk of supply cuts, given the current reliance on foreign countries. Li Yuncai, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and inspector of the Hunan Supply and Marketing Cooperative Association, called for the seed industry's development to be a major strategy for the safe and high-quality overall development of China's agriculture, and suggested that China needs to draw up a development plan for the seed sector.