Functional Positioning and Reform Orientation of Agricultural Insurance in China under the Food Security Strategy in the New Era
Under the new situation of national food security,China's food security risk guarantee also presents new features as follows.The direction of food security risk guarantee is changing emphasis from the food pro-duction end to the risk guarantee of the whole food industry chain;the content of food security guarantee is changing from quantitative risk to comprehensive risk of quantity,quality and ecology;the focus of food secu-rity has shifted from preventing natural risks in the production chain to taking into account multiple risks such as natural,market,responsibility and policy;and the scope of food security has shifted from focusing on domes-tic risks to integrating domestic and foreign risks.In the face of the new features of food security risk guaran-tee,it is objectively required to make corresponding adjustments to the positioning of China's agricultural insurance function,the risk guarantee function of agricultural insurance should reach a new height,the income transfer function should reach a new degree of accuracy,the industrial guidance function should show a new role,and the factor guarantee function should expand into a new field.Adapting to the repositioning of the function of agricultural insurance,China's agricultural insurance should also make strategic changes in the reform orientation of food security protection.For instance,it should focus on the needs of multi-dimensional risk protection for food,continuously improving the agricultural insurance system in terms of policy,organiza-tion and legal system.It should focus on the new situation of food security and the new characteristics of risk,adjusting and improving the"government+market"dual-wheel drive mechanism.It also should focus on the new function and positioning of agricultural insurance,innovating and diversifying the product supply in terms of"expanding the surface,improving the standard and increasing the variety of products".Finally,it should coordinate the risk management of agricultural insurance,and accelerate the improvement of the catastrophe insurance system,in order to prevent and respond to the major disasters in agriculture effectively.