The wheat purchase policy urgently needs to be perfected under the new situation.

On October 10, the National Development and Reform Commission officially announced that wheat would continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy in 2016, with the purchase price remaining unchanged at 1.18 yuan per jin. At this point, the wheat purchase policy, commonly known as the policy of supporting the market, is moving towards its tenth year.

After ten years of supporting the market, the price of wheat (mixed wheat) rose from 0.69 yuan / jin to 1.18 yuan / jin in 2016, with an increase of 71%. After deducting price increases, the increase also reached more than 20%. It can be said that the policy of supporting the market of wheat is a heavy investment by the state and a policy subsidy system that supports increasing agricultural production and increasing farmers' income. Since the small Mai Tuo city, the 12 consecutive increases in agricultural production is a silent echo of the policy of supporting the market.

However, ten years later, young people can grow up and mature, a generation of beauties will grow old, and an era will always grow old. It naturally takes more courage and more efforts to support the city's evergreen policy.

A brief account of Ten years

Thank you for the love you gave me

Uncle Cao, who lives in Chunshui Town, Miyang County, has been in control of crops for 40 years. He has earned work points, paid public grain, knows three things and five unification, and has experienced market support and temporary storage. He is a witness to the agricultural history of New China. Speaking of supporting the market, Uncle Cao sincerely sighed: "is it right to prop up the market?" That is pure nonsense. The country raises prices year after year, and sensible people can see that as long as they harvest wheat, they can make money, and grain traders have gone to the fields. I don't know how convenient it is to sell grain than it used to be to hand in public grain. I don't worry about selling grain. I say it's good! "

There have been joys and sorrows.

As for supporting the market, the feelings of the big board members who have been collecting grain in the countryside all the year round are very mixed: "I worked in the agricultural department and resigned as a civil servant in 2008 to specialize in collecting grain. The only thing I can see is that the supporting market of wheat must rise year after year! Now farmers are in a hurry to work, do not like the money to sell grain, there are a lot of people who sell below the market price. I buy low and sell high, and I can't lose money! It can be said that the past few years have earned more than I have earned in the past 20 years. "

However, since 2014, business has gradually become difficult. "the market price is now flat again. I heard that the northeast corn has also lowered the purchase price. I lost 2 million jin of wheat last year, but this year I still have to rest. If the market price is not raised, how can farmers make money?" Da Dong, who quit his job, may be more anxious than Uncle Cao.

It's not easy to say I love you.

"Peasants are the basic dish in China, but we have to eat, too!"

Cheap grain hurts farmers and expensive rice hurts people. There is extraordinary harmony in Uncle Cao's house. Mr. Xiao Cao, as the youngest son of Uncle Cao, is now employed in a foreign Fortune 500 company, which is the pride of Uncle Cao's family. But when it comes to propping up the market, Mr. Cao and Uncle Cao have completely different views. "the price of rice flour oil keeps rising, which is stuck in the necks of our people, ah, farmers actually do not earn money. I go to school on my family's ten mu of peanuts. Growing wheat is purely a matter of habit. Supporting the market didn't make my family well-off, but now we can't breathe, housing loans, car loans. Now it's impossible to buy bag noodles at the same price every three days. " Mr. Cao frowned as he scratched his new Iphone phone.

The bottleneck is experiencing new wind and rain.

As the saying goes, there are a thousand hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and the impression of wheat supporting the market is also a thousand people.

When we look at the market-supporting prices over the years, we suddenly find that since 2014, the lowest purchase price has been flat for three times, and the continuous upward trend has long been over, which is precisely the day when Da Dong began to worry.

"looking at the comparison of wheat prices at home and abroad, it is not difficult to find that the inherent logic of stagflation and stability in supporting the market price. At present, the upside-down price difference between internal and external prices has made China's wheat prices completely uncompetitive." when Han Kefeng, a wheat analyst at China Grain Network, talked about this issue, there is more helplessness. "at present, Maimai is less than 2000 yuan per ton, and the internal and external price difference fluctuates up and down. Now there are quota restrictions in the wheat market. If there were no quota, I wouldn't dare to think about it! "

"after entering 2014, China's economic policy has entered a period of adjustment, reform has entered the deep-water area, the requirements of continuing to deepen political and economic restructuring have been continuously strengthened, and the inherent requirements of China's economic transformation have also emerged step by step. Under the new normal, new problems in the wheat market are inevitable. The continuous fermentation of public opinion and the in-depth discussion on the policy of supporting the wheat market are in fact particularly beneficial to the improvement of China's grain support policy and the further improvement of the system. " Tian Xiaoyu, an analyst at China Grain Network, holds an open attitude to the current upsurge in the discussion of agricultural prices.

"the traditional policy of supporting the market pays too much attention to the compensation to the farmers, and simple price adjustment, facing an increasingly complex economic situation, finally fails to catch up," Tian Xiaoyu said with a smile. "joking that the old ticket of the original policy of supporting the market, I am afraid it will be difficult to re-enter the new passenger ship in the wheat market under the current complex background!"

The old revolution can also have new methods.

"the policy of supporting the market should not be abandoned." Han Kefeng still has firm confidence in the policy of supporting the market. "at present, the policy of supporting the market is still the most effective tool for regulating grain production, and the significance of food rations of wheat and rice can not be ignored. years of bumper harvests do not mean that the food security situation has gradually improved. on the contrary, under the complex international and domestic situation, the food security situation is becoming more and more serious, as proved by the history of the past decade. The policy of supporting the market at least ensures abundant grain stocks and stabilizes the benefits of farmers, as evidenced by the continuous restorative growth of the sown area of wheat. "

-- introducing the market and invigorating the price is the top priority.

"for the market support policy, further improvement is the only way. I am willing to be the Li Hongzhang of the market support policy. As the pasting craftsman of the lowest price acquisition," Tian Xiaoyu does not change her optimistic nature. "at present, the biggest problem of the market support policy is to block the possibility of free price fluctuations. At present, the excessively high market support price is the bottleneck of the market support policy, and whether it rises or falls obviously deviates from the market price law. It is imperative to break this expectation. It will also solve the problem of excessive price. "

Tian Xiaoyu continued: "We must activate the role of the market. The socialist market economic system with Chinese characteristics, of course, calls for the marketization of the grain market and the need for the market to play a role in price regulation. The greater the role of the market in the allocation of resources, the more flexible and effective, the more fully make up for the shortcomings of the policy, invigorate the market, and invigorate the price is the fundamental dependence on the further improvement of the market support policy."

-- outnumbered, with many people and great strength

"the problem of 1.3 billion people is always a big problem, and a policy of supporting the market cannot solve all the problems in China's agriculture; of course, a medium grain reserve cannot solve all the problems in the grain market. Judging from the various difficulties in the wheat market this year, the social collection and storage force has been getting weaker and weaker in recent years. as a result, although the purchase volume of medium grain reserves has not changed much from that of previous years, some brokers, including some major grain growers, have encountered more difficult ways to sell grain. It is difficult to solve this problem by relying solely on grain storage, and only by invigorating the real economy can we invigorate market competition. " Han Kefeng obviously paid attention to the hot issues this year.

"We must jump out of the circle of grain storage to look at the problem. China's agricultural support policies are numerous and complicated, but it is often difficult to form a joint force. To take a simple example, subsidies for improved varieties are paid year after year, but the purchase market is dominated by mixed wheat, and the advantage of improved varieties does not lie. Why do farmers rely on the income of agricultural technology? At present, all industries focus on technological progress to achieve industrial upgrading, grain production cycle is long, policy considerations should be taken into account, otherwise often get twice the result with half the effort. " An unnamed macro policy analyst told reporters.

The analyst continued: "traditionally, China's administrative system is seriously fragmented, and the coordination of various departments is often a weakness, and contradictions between the central and local governments, and departmental entanglements are the difficulties of political reform. Straightening out these relations is more important to give better play to the power of macro-control. Only by speeding up the reform of the political system can we fundamentally solve a series of problems that should not have occurred."

On October 15, 2015, Xinhua News Agency published some opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the Reform of the Price Mechanism, suggesting that we should make overall use of both international and domestic markets and pay attention to giving full play to the role of the market in forming prices. the price of agricultural products is mainly determined by the market. It is required to continue to implement and improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat.

After the Mai Meto city policy has gone through its own rich decade, the emergence of problems is inevitable and good. Only by discovering and correcting problems can we make our cause a hundred feet forward and go further.

At present, for the market support policy itself, the full introduction of market competition mechanism and the comprehensive coordination of various subsidy policies to play a joint force is a powerful way to continue to improve and tap the effectiveness of the market support policy.

We look forward to a win-win future for China's agriculture with concerted efforts.