The 4th World Shiology Forum was held in Hainan

With turquoise water lapping at a white, sandy beach and the coconut trees whirling, the 4th World Shiology Forum will be held on October 10-12, 2023 in Hainan Island, China. Government officials, experts, academics and “eat+food” industry professionals from 43 countries gathered to discuss the systematic governance of “eat+food” issues in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS).
 

The systematic governance of “eat+food” issues is an important pivot for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The “eat+food” issues has been around for a long time and is still the most important problem humankind facing. So far, there are still 800 million people in the world who do not have enough to eat, 2 billion people suffer diseases from overeating, 3 billion people are threatened by food security, 90% of people do not get their due life span from eating, 1/3 of food is wasted, and the conflicts in human society, caused by the uneven distribution of food resources, are constant, conflicts between human and ecology is increasingly intensified. Of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, at least 13 are related to “eat+food” issues. As UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the UN Sustainable Development Goals Summit in September, “only 15% of the Sustainable Development Goals are currently on track, and many are even in reverse.” Sustainable development goals cannot be achieved unless the “eat+food” issues are effectively addressed.
 
13 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are related to“eat+food”issues

There are various reasons why “eat+food” issues can linger and get worse, the source of which is that the cognition of the current discipline is fragmented, lacking of overall cognition and overall management concept. Shiology is a new subject created by Chinese scholars, which centers on the eaters’ health, integrating the three major fields of food production, food utilization and “eat+food” order. It focuses on the comprehensive cognition and overall management of “eat+food” issues, and achieves comprehensive coverage of “eat+food” issues in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which can promote the comprehensive solution of human “eat+food” issues.

Founded in 2017, the World Shiology Forum is a high-end international dialogue platform dedicated to systematically addressing “eat+food” issues that hinder sustainable human development. So far, it has held three forums and summits in China, Japan and Turkey, which have generated good responses.
 
The Awaji Island Declaration was issued at the 3rd World Shiology Forum, and the UN officials and former foreign ministers of China and Japan attended

The theme of the 4th World Shiology Forum is the systematic governance of “eat+food” issues in Sustainable development (SDGS). Under the main forum, a number of sub-forums are set up to conduct in-depth discussions on solving the hunger problem of global 800 million people, solving the food security problem faced by 3 billion people, extending the healthy life span of 8 billion people and carrying out Shiology general education respectively from the perspective of sustainable development.

The forum has received strong support from the United Nations and the Hainan Provincial government. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent a congratulatory letter to the Forum. Zhu Juwang, Director of the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and José Graziano da Silva, former Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and President of Brazil Zero Hunger institute, delivered a video speech, in which they highly praised the efforts of the World Shiology Forum to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Feng Fei, secretary of the Party Committee of Hainan Province attended the welcome dinner and Governor Liu Xiaoming attended the opening ceremony. In their speeches, they welcomed guests from all over the world to visit Hainan, thanked the World Shiology Forum for its efforts to solve the human “eat+food” issues, and congratulated the 4th World Shiology Forum to gain a complete success!

The forum also discussed the construction and dissemination of the Shiology system, the establishment of the Shiology international standard system, the establishment of the world Shiology network platform, and the establishment of the editorial committee of the World Shiology Library, and will release the “Hainan Island Initiative” to promote the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In order to show support for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the forum also set up the announcement of the “Food Classroom” public welfare action plan and hold the Red Chef Hat charity dinner and other topics. 20 chefs from around the world to perform on the spot and participating companies donated to the Hainan Happy Home project.
 
Sign-desk of the 4th World Shiology Forum