Make good use of live food reserve resources

Sufficient grain reserves are the "Dinghai Shenzhen" to ensure a stable supply of the market
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At present, China has established an efficient and well-managed grain storage system, and policy-based grain stocks are sufficient to cope with various partial and time-period fluctuations in grain supply and demand

Making good use of policy-based food stocks and ensuring the effective supply of food are important measures to ensure supply and stabilize prices
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Since the beginning of this year, affected by factors such as international transmission, domestic soybean, corn and other grain prices have been running at a high level, which has brought certain cost pressures to related industries

China has a large population and small land, and food supply and demand have been in a tight balance for a long time.
Factors such as floods, the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and the international food crisis may trigger fluctuations in food prices
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To achieve a basic balance of food supply and demand, it is necessary to make good use of the reserves and control resources and adjust market supply and demand.

At present, China has established an efficient and well-managed grain storage system, with sufficient policy-based grain stocks, and abundant and powerful regulatory resources, including centrally-reserved grain, local grain-reserved grain and minimum purchase price grain and other policy-based stockpiles
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Stocks of rice and wheat are sufficient for national consumption for one year.

For a country like China with a population of 1.
4 billion, if there is more food storage, the food safety factor will be higher
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At present, China's food inventory consumption ratio is much higher than the 17% to 18% world food security warning line proposed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

Not only that, while ensuring the absolute safety of rations, it is also necessary to take into account the effective supply of main non-staple foods in the structure of the reserve grain varieties
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At present, wheat and rice ration varieties in the government's grain reserves account for more than 70%.

It is worth noting that some people think that the adjustment of grain reserves is an anti-market operation.
The author believes that this view is wrong
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China's grain reserve system has been gradually established and perfected in the process of deepening the reform of the grain circulation system.