China Net Finance, January 9 (Reporter Li Chunhui) From January 8th to 9th, the National Grain and Material Reserve Work Conference was held in Beijing. The meeting summarized and reviewed the work of food and material reserves in 2023, analyzed the current situation, and deployed key tasks in 2024.
Ensuring the safety of food and material reserves is a heavy task and a heavy responsibility. Liu Huanxin, member of the Party Group of the National Development and Reform Commission, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the State Food and Material Reserves Administration, said at the meeting that in 2024, he will continue to do a solid job in all aspects of food and material reserves, resolutely maintain and manage the "granary of the world" and "big country reserves", and provide a strong guarantee for high-quality economic and social development.
The scene of the meeting (photo by Li Chunhui of China Net Finance).
Review 2023: The main objectives and tasks have been fully completed.
2023 is the first year for the full implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and it is also a year for the economy to recover after the three-year transition of new crown epidemic prevention and control. Liu Huanxin introduced that in the past year, the national food and material reserve system has forged ahead and worked hard, and the main goals and tasks have been fully completed, providing strong support for the economic recovery and high-quality development.
Grain purchases were stable and orderly. In 2023, many regions in China will encounter extreme weather such as "bad rain", floods, and heavy snowfall. In this regard, the national grain and material reserve system conscientiously organized the purchase of summer grain and autumn grain, actively optimized the purchase service, effectively coped with the impact of disaster weather, and ensured the smooth sale of grain by farmers, and the annual purchase volume remained above 400 million tons.
The strength of grain reserves has been strengthened. China's grain stocks are abundant, and the stock-to-consumption ratio is far higher than the international food security warning line of 17%-18%. The intact storage capacity of the national standard warehouse has reached 700 million tons, the standardized, refined, green and intelligent level of grain storage management has been continuously improved, and the storage conditions have generally maintained the world's advanced level.
The food market is sufficient. In the past year, geopolitical conflicts have exacerbated the turbulence of the global grain market, and the international food market has been running at a high level. In this regard, the State Food and Material Reserves Administration has strengthened the macroeconomic regulation and control of grain, conscientiously organized policy-based grain sales, and carried out the rotation of local reserves in a timely manner, so as to play a role in throughput regulation. Counties (cities, banners) with emergency grain storage, transportation and processing enterprises have basically achieved full coverage. In the face of large fluctuations in the international grain market, China's grain market has remained stable.
The grain industry improves quality and efficiency. In the past year, China has deepened the high-quality grain project and accelerated the high-quality development of the grain industry. It is estimated that in 2023, grain enterprises will achieve a total industrial output value of 43 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7%. Organize the issuance of mandatory national standards for wheat and soybeans, and establish and improve the third-party inspection and monitoring system for grain quality and safety. The 5th China Grain Trade Conference and the 3rd National Poverty Alleviation Area High-quality and Characteristic Grain and Oil Products Exhibition were successfully held, and the 6th National Grain Industry Vocational Skills Competition was held. Deepen international cooperation in the field of food, and sign memorandums of understanding on food cooperation with relevant national departments.
Saving food is effective and effective. In the past year, the national grain and material reserve system has given full play to the role of grain postpartum service centers in helping farmers reduce losses and increase income, and organized integrated demonstration and standardization pilot projects of green grain storage technology. The grain storage loss rate of peasant households dropped to 29%, and the comprehensive loss rate of state-owned grain depots in the grain storage cycle is controlled within 1%. In 2023, activities such as World Food Day, National Food Security Publicity Week, and Science and Technology Activity Week will also be held, and science popularization of "reducing oil and increasing greenery" will be actively carried out, creating an atmosphere of loving food and saving food in the whole society.
The special rectification has achieved remarkable results. In 2023, the State Food and Material Reserves Administration will carry out the "Year of Strict Supervision, Strong Law Enforcement and Heavy Punishment Action" activity, introduce measures such as rewards for reporting violations of laws and regulations in policy-based grain purchase and sales, organize national policy-based grain and oil inventory inspections by means of cross-inspection, and resolutely investigate and deal with grain-related cases of violations of laws and regulations. Food and material reserve departments at all levels have imposed administrative penalties on more than 8,000 cases, with a fine of 22.1 million yuan, and publicly reported typical cases, forming a strong deterrent.
Significant results have been achieved in food security legislation. In the past year, the Food Security Law was deliberated and passed by the Seventh Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, and has become China's first comprehensive and basic law to ensure national food security. The Measures for Administrative Law Enforcement of Grain Circulation and the Measures for the Supervision of Grain Quality and Safety have been implemented successively.
Looking forward to 2024: opportunities outweigh challenges Nine key tasks are deployed.
2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and a crucial year for achieving the goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan. In the new year, the complexity, severity and uncertainty of the external environment have increased. "The field of food and material reserves is facing many challenges, but also many favorable conditions, and the opportunities generally outweigh the challenges. Liu Huanxin pointed out.
He stressed that to do a good job in food and material reserves in 2024, we must grasp four aspects: pay more attention to strengthening bottom-line thinking and limit thinking;Pay more attention to relying on reform and innovation to enhance the momentum of development;Pay more attention to improving the efficiency of reserves;Pay more attention to consolidating the foundation of the grassroots level.
The meeting deployed nine key tasks for food and material reserves in 2024.
1) Strengthen the coordinated guarantee of grain production, purchase, storage, and marketing, carefully organize grain purchases, do a solid job in ensuring grain supply and price stability, further promote high-quality grain projects, vigorously carry out grain saving and loss reduction, and actively promote international cooperation.
2) Continuously enhance the strength of national reserves. This is the confidence to prevent and defuse risks and deal with extreme situations.
3) Do a good job in the combination of grain supervision and law enforcement assessment. Grain and material reserve departments at all levels shall, according to the ownership of grain rights, refine the list of responsibilities, perform the main responsibility of grain reserve supervision and control, and strengthen the supervision of grain circulation and policy-based grain purchase and sales within their respective responsibilities.
4) Intensify the construction of reserve infrastructure. This is an important support for enhancing the strength of reserves. It is necessary to seize the policy opportunity and speed up the construction of fully functional reserve facilities.
5) Deeply advance reform and the rule of law. First, it is necessary to solidly promote the reform of the regulatory system and mechanism in the field of grain reserves and purchase and sales. Second, we must further promote the reform of the safety management system and mechanism of strategic and emergency material reserves. Third, we must continue to promote the construction of the rule of law in the field of food and material reserves.
6) Strengthen scientific and technological innovation and information application. On the one hand, scientific and technological innovation should coordinate technological research and transformation and application. On the other hand, the application of information technology should be coordinated in the field of grain and reserves.
7) Comprehensively improve the level of reserve management. It is necessary to make overall plans for the establishment of rules and regulations and the implementation of systems, and promote the level of reserve management to a new level. First, we must improve the relevant systems. Second, we must strengthen the guidance of standards. Third, it is necessary to strengthen supervision and inspection.
8) Do a good job in situation analysis and planning research. Scientifically studying and judging the situation and grasping the general trend of development is the prerequisite for doing a good job in grain and material reserves. It is necessary to strengthen the study of the economic situation and major issues, make efforts in pre-research, early warning, and in-depth and practical planning, so as to make plans before taking action and making precise efforts.
9) Resolutely adhere to the bottom line of safe production. Security is the premise of development, and to grasp development, we must pay attention to security. It is necessary to carry out a three-year action to tackle the root cause of production safety and promote the continuous and stable improvement of the safety production situation.
It is necessary to comprehensively and accurately grasp the situation, strengthen confidence and determination, rise to the occasion, take advantage of the situation, and constantly create a new situation in the work of grain and material reserves. Liu Huanxin said.