In the Chicago market in the United States, the price of corn fell to 4 at the end of September$6, the lowest since December 2020!Some foreign media threatened that this huge decline is inseparable from China's "wave of order withdrawals".
China's corn imports from the U.S. plummeted 83% in August compared to the same period last year, according to RefinitivHowever, the USDA has previously stated that U.S. corn production will increase significantly between 2023 and 2024.
What is going on with soaring production and a sharp drop in exports?
1. Get food and get the world
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said, "Whoever controls food will master all mankind." This statement is not alarmist, as early as the last century, the United States put this idea into practice.
The United States is the world's largest grain exporter, with vast farmland and leading agricultural technology, and accounts for 20% of the world's total food production. In addition, the United States also dominates 80% of the world's grain trading market, which can be said to be the throat of the global grain industry chain.
However, like semiconductors and lithography machines in the high-tech industry, the United States often uses food as a kind of "** to consolidate its position in the international arena." Taking Russia as an example, as an important grain producer in the world, when it suffered from multiple blockades by the United States and other Western countries, it fell into the dilemma of unsalable grain. And the United States took the opportunity to fry the grain ** by 3 to 4 times and made a lot of money.
My country has had a similar experience. In 1994, after the signing of the U.S.-China agricultural cooperation agreement, the four major U.S. and French grain companies sold large quantities of low-priced soybeans to China, causing many soybean farmers to go bankrupt. In 2001, China changed from the world's largest soybean exporter to the world's largest soybean importer, at the same time, the four major grain companies reduced soybean exports to China under the pretext of natural disasters, and also speculated soybeans, in just three years, soybeans soared from 2,300 yuan per ton to 4,400 yuan, almost doubled.
In the field of biotechnology, which is also closely related to people's lives, the United States once relied on its technological superiority to strictly control the output of Harvard's Shi Jina anti-aging substances. In 2019, such substances were measured at 2. per gram30,000 yuan of ** into our country 5The 9 trillion silver hair market has earned millions of real gold in less than half a month.
Whether it is food, chips or biotechnology, maintaining its dominant position in these fields through monopoly is already an old trick of the United States.
2. Regain the initiative and open up grain import channels
Grandpa Yuan Longping once said: "A grain of grain can save a country, or it can trip a country, and behind this grain of food, there are often thousands of living lives." ”
As the world's largest grain importer, ensuring that China has sufficient grain is related to the food and clothing of more than one billion people. In order to keep the lifeline of "food security" firmly in our own hands, our country has adopted a series of measures.
Official data shows that in the first half of the year, China's imports and exports to the United States have fallen by 84%。The huge market share, which was once dominated by the United States, is now being shared by South American countries. In August this year, China imported 58 tons of corn from Brazil, and in September it surged to 1.22 million tons!
In addition, according to official Brazilian data, the corn production from 2022 to 2023 reached 1The latest record of 300 million tonnes represents a 14% increase from 2021 to 202288%。Today, Brazil has surpassed the United States to become the country with the largest amount of corn in the world.
At the same time, as of October this year, the total export of soybeans to China by 462%。A large part of China's soybean orders went to Argentina. In terms of cotton, pork, beef, and other agricultural products, China has also reduced the proportion of imports from the United States to varying degrees.
The same trend is also seen in the above-mentioned Shi Jina category. In 2021, domestic catalytic equipment was put into use, which increased the purity of such substances to 99%, while reducing the preparation cost by 95% and achieving a 100-ton output. China's technology has brought "life" to thousands of households.
It is reported that this year, the sales volume of the above-mentioned substances in Jingdong's "Double Twelve" increased by more than 100% year-on-year, and the consumer group tends to be high-net-worth people.
The dream of monopoly was shattered, and Lao Mei could only watch the loss of profits, but she was helpless. Even Bill Gates had to admit in front of **: "We are actively admitting defeat." ”
3. Ensure that food security is in your own hands
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is recorded in the Book of Han: "Hong Fan has eight politics, and food is the head of politics." "With the passage of time, agriculture remains a top priority.
Despite the continuous progress of science and technology, China's food production has increased year by year, but it is only 40 years away from the goal of ending hunger in 1984.
If industry is the engine of the country's rapid development, then agricultural security is the foundation of all development. This is why China proposes to strictly abide by the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land to ensure that the Chinese's rice bowl will always be stable in their own hands.