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 "empty plate" campaign

【背景介绍】

国家主席习近平近日作出重要指示强调，要坚决制止餐饮浪费行为，切实培养节约习惯。他指出，餐饮浪费现象，触目惊心、令人痛心！尽管我国粮食生产连年丰收，对粮食安全还是始终要有危机意识，今年全球新冠肺炎疫情所带来的影响更是给我们敲响了警钟。
    President Xi Jinping has stressed resolutely putting an end to wasting food and called for promoting thrift. Xi made the requirement in an instruction. Calling the issue of food waste shocking and distressing, Xi highlighted the need to maintain a sense of crisis regarding food security, especially amid the fallout of the COVID-19 epidemic, despite the fact that China has scored consecutive bumper harvests.

习近平一直高度重视粮食安全和提倡“厉行节约、反对浪费”（To practice strict economy and combat waste）的社会风尚，多次强调要制止餐饮浪费行为。2013年1月，习近平就作出重要指示，要求厉行节约、反对浪费。党的十八大以来，各地区各部门贯彻落实习近平重要指示精神，采取出台相关文件、开展“光盘行动”（ "empty plate" campaign）等措施，大力整治浪费之风，“舌尖上的浪费”（waste on the tip of the tongue）现象有所改观，特别是群众反映强烈的公款餐饮浪费(waste of public funds on catering)行为得到有效遏制。同时，一些地方餐饮浪费现象仍然存在，有关部门正在贯彻落实习近平重要指示精神(Xi Jinping's important directives)，制定实施更有力的举措，推动全社会深入推进制止餐饮浪费工作。

【例句】

北京将近750家餐厅加入了“光盘行动”。
Nearly 750 restaurants in Beijing have joined the  "empty plate" campaign.

【词汇拓展】

厉行节约、反对浪费
practicing thrift and opposing waste

夏粮丰收
bumper summer harvest of grains

“三农”问题
issues relating to agriculture, rural areas, and rural people

粮食生产能力
capability of grain production

农业农村现代化
modernization of agriculture and rural areas

撰稿：衡飞