"Our ultimate goal is to ensure that the food Chinese people eat is safe," he said.

Meanwhile, special attention will be paid at this summer's Beijing Olympics to ensure there is a sufficient supply of high quality food that is rich in variety and safe to eat, Gao said.

He said that although the safety campaign is designed to benefit ordinary Chinese citizens, not just athletes, the Olympics will be a way to highlight the need to "ensure the sustained improvement of the quality and safety of agricultural products in the Chinese nation".

Gao also said the government will work to stabilize prices by stepping up production and increasing the supply of staples, such as pork and oil.

The prices of the country's major foodstuffs, including grain, pork and cooking oil, surged last year, lifting the consumer price index to an 11-year high of 6.9 percent in November, well above the government's 3 percent target.

Gao said the increases were due to soaring global grain prices, increased labor costs and the fact that due to urbanization, China now has fewer farmers.

"The government will strive to bring the price hikes under control ... by expanding (farm) production to ensure a steady supply," Gao said.

He said that the agriculture ministry had set an output target of more than 1 trillion tons thi

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