It is of special significance to stabilize grain and keep the world safe. In Zhejiang, a demonstration area for high-quality development and common prosperity, it is the meaning of the construction of the demonstration area to consolidate the foundation of food security and let the people hold a good and secure “rice bowl” in their hands.
At the sixth session of the 13th National People’s Congress of Zhejiang Province recently, Zhou Weiliang, party secretary and director of the food and material reserve bureau of Zhejiang Province, who attended the meeting as a nonvoting delegate, said in an interview with chinanews.com that the province is taking multiple measures to ensure food supply and “introduce food into Zhejiang” while actively building “Zhejiang good rice”.
“five excellent linkage” to create “Zhejiang good rice”
“For food security, cultivated land is fundamental. Zhejiang has green water, green mountains and land, and has the natural conditions to grow good food. In order to grow Lbx Pharmacy Chain Joint Stock Company(603883) favorite food, we have been working hard.” Zhou Weiliang said.
In Zhejiang, it is not so easy to grow good grain.
Zhou Weiliang introduced that in terms of high-quality development of the grain industry, Zhejiang’s grain production and consumption demand, grain reserves and ration consumption do not match well; In terms of grain production, grain farmers rely more and more on government order acquisition, one-sided pursuit of yield and neglect of quality, and Zhejiang lacks high-quality late rice varieties; In terms of grain reserves, the varieties and quality of grain reserves do not match the market demand, and the rotation price difference is large, resulting in a heavy financial burden. In addition, in the grain industry, the grain processing enterprises in Zhejiang lack the support of local high-quality grain sources, and the market competition is at a disadvantage. These are difficulties that must be faced.
In order to solve the above pain points, the province has launched the “five excellent linkage” with the connotation of “excellent grain production, excellent grain purchase, excellent grain storage, excellent grain addition and excellent grain sales” in recent years, so as to promote the high-quality development of the grain industry by integrating the grain industry chain, optimizing the supply chain and improving the value chain.
For example, in terms of integrating the grain industry chain, Zhou Weiliang introduced that the “five excellent linkage” closely connects farmers and rice processing enterprises. By signing orders, the two sides become a community of interests and aim at the terminal market together.
Whether the reform is effective or not is most appreciated by the large grain growers who deal with grain production every day. “Before the pilot of ‘five excellent linkage’, the rice we planted was generally sold to the state-owned reserve grain depots, but the grain depots undertook the task of policy grain collection and storage, paid according to the minimum purchase price, and provided basic guarantee to grain farmers.” Sun Jianlong is a major grain grower in yinjiawei village, balidian Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou City. He introduced that he is one of the beneficiaries of the “five excellent linkage”. After the order type collection and storage, the high-quality rice sold at a good price, and the average income per mu was increased by 160 yuan. Farmers’ grain planting changed from quantity to quality.
“Five excellent linkage” has promoted the organic integration of grain production, processing and sales. On this basis, Zhejiang has raised its standards and hopes to create a regional public brand of “Zhejiang good rice”. “In October last year, we released the ‘Zhejiang rice flavor’, which forced grain quality improvement based on market demand.” Zhou Weiliang introduced that in order to promote the improvement of rice quality in Zhejiang and standardize industry self-discipline, the province has also carried out the preparation of a series of group standards for Zhejiang good rice.
“Compared with the whole country, ‘Zhejiang good rice’ has made a breakthrough in requiring that the rice should be marked with which village planted it, which year planted it and which enterprise processed it. We can trace it back.” Zhou Weiliang said.
One side of the soil nurtures another. Zhou Weiliang is looking forward to eating good local rice.
Jiaxing grain farmers harvest late rice. Map provided by Zhejiang grain and Material Reserve Bureau
implement the “255” project and actively “import grain into Zhejiang”
Steadily taking up the “rice bowl” of the people requires Zhejiang’s self-examination and “introducing grain into Zhejiang”.
Zhejiang Province is the second largest grain main sales area in China. In order to stabilize the grain supply chain, the province implemented the “255” project of grain circulation, and further supported the main force, main channel and main platform enterprises of grain circulation, such as grain wholesale, processing and trading enterprises, to become bigger, stronger and better.
It is reported that the “255” project aims to build 20 modern grain wholesale markets and 50 backbone leading grain circulation enterprises in Zhejiang Province by 2022, and establish a stable grain source base of 5 million mu outside Zhejiang Province.
\u3000\u3000 “In order to achieve ‘extensive grain accumulation’ and improve the coefficient of food security, we have made great efforts to do a good job in the ‘255’ project. The goal is to build some stable ‘grain source’ bases outside the province, support 20 backbone grain wholesale markets as the main support platform for supply security. We encourage 50 grain processing enterprises to build bases and engage in circulation outside the province, and establish a 5 million mu grain source base in the Yangtze River Delta and Northeast China In order to basically meet the grain demand, it is necessary to purchase by order. ” Zhou Weiliang said.
In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of all links, Zhejiang officials have also issued corresponding support policies. For example, in view of the transformation and upgrading of the grain wholesale market, the subsidy standard for the transformation and upgrading of the low-temperature or quasi-low-temperature warehouse of finished grain shall not exceed 1200 yuan per square meter, and the subsidy standard for the new low-temperature or quasi-low-temperature warehouse of finished grain shall not exceed 3500 yuan per square meter.
In addition, the province has continuously strengthened inter provincial cooperation in grain purchase and sales, promoted the “introduction of grain into Zhejiang”, promoted the economic integration of grain industry in the Yangtze River Delta, expanded grain foreign trade cooperation, and ensured grain supply in the province at multiple levels, channels and forms; Taking advantage of the opportunity of the national construction of Ningbo Zhoushan bulk commodity reserve base, accelerate the construction of Zhoushan grain dual cycle core hub, focus on supporting the construction of imported grain and oil bonded storage and processing trade base dominated by imported soybeans and corn and the international first-class grain and oil river sea intermodal core hub port, and improve the grain circulation capacity.
So far, the “extensive grain accumulation” has been supported and guaranteed.
“Huzhou good rice” created by “five excellent linkage”. Tang Qixin
improve social grain reserves and guard the “rice bag”
How well the “rice bag” is guarded is also directly reflected in the level of emergency support capacity. In this regard, Zhejiang has improved its emergency support capacity by strengthening reserve safety management and emergency system construction.
It is reported that the Zhejiang provincial Party committee and government issued the implementation opinions on reforming and improving the food security system and mechanism and strengthening the safety management of food reserves in 2020, which clearly increased the reserve task of 1.2 billion kg. By 2022, the grain reserve scale of Zhejiang Province will reach 12 billion kg. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the province completed the construction of grain circulation infrastructure projects, invested 11.2 billion yuan, built a new high-standard reserve warehouse capacity of 5.65 billion kg, and the province’s Grain Reserve warehouse capacity reached 13.8 billion kg, effectively improving and improving the conditions for grain collection and storage.
“Zhejiang has a grain production capacity of 30 billion Jin and a grain sowing area of 15.1 million mu. The Zhejiang provincial government has adjusted the reserve scale and can reserve 12 billion jin by the end of 2022. The total grain consumption of the whole society in Zhejiang is 46.5 billion jin, which can basically meet the demand for rations.” Zhou Weiliang also said.
Although the “food report card” is bright, he also believes that efforts should be made to make the “rice bowl” more secure.
“The Zhejiang government has reserved grain for Lbx Pharmacy Chain Joint Stock Company(603883) for half a year. The current problem is that the food reserve work in the canteens of some organs, enterprises and institutions is not very good, Lbx Pharmacy Chain Joint Stock Company(603883) also has no awareness of Grain Reserve, and all hope in the supermarket.” Zhou Weiliang suggested that the government and social reserves should be unified. According to the provisions of the regulations of Zhejiang Province on food security, we can reserve good food and buy Vacuum rice barrels to further improve the insurance coefficient of food security in grain sales areas.
“Store grain to ensure safety, save grain and speak of virtue.” Zhou Weiliang called. (end)
