Internet + Grain encounters Triple Security risks

"our main business now is to run to large grain enterprises, hoping to attract these enterprises to register members on our website and trade raw grain through the Internet. As long as we can get a small part of the market share in the huge amount of grain transactions, the future development scale of the enterprise will be amazing. "

For a whole day, Liu Kai (a pseudonym)'s mobile phone was almost unanswered. It was not until the evening that the reporter got through to the head of the business department of the domestic large-scale grain electronic trading platform. He told reporters that they are recently looking for partners everywhere in order to quickly expand the influence of the platform and open up the market situation.

"Grain belongs to bulk trading, and the annual grain trading volume in our country is a sky-high volume. However, bulk grain trading is still a traditional way of trading, so it may be the last industry that the 'Internet' can tap. " Liu Kai said.

How can "Internet +" make a difference to the traditional grain industry?

The answer to this question may be found in the following set of data:

As of September 2014, more than 100 million tons of national policy grain and oil were traded through the China Grain Network e-commerce platform, with a transaction value of more than 200 billion yuan.

Hong Tao, director of the Institute of Business Economics of Beijing Industrial and Commercial University and director of the China Food (Agricultural products) Safety Electronic Commerce Research Institute, who provided the data, said in an interview with the legal Daily that with the vigorous development of grain e-commerce, the safety problems have gradually attracted the attention of the industry.

Industry transformation

Can grain e-commerce be understood as buying and selling grain online?

Hong Tao's answer is "no".

His explanation is: since 2004, China has gradually implemented the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat, by centralizing some grain sources by means of the lowest purchase price, and then by electronic means such as online transactions, so that these grain sources can be quickly put on the market at critical moments to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the grain market and carrying out grain macro-control. As a result, a grain e-commerce model based on national policy grain transaction and supplemented by personalized grain e-commerce has been formed day by day.

In fact, before Liu Kai took a fancy to the blue sea of "bulk grain trading", a lot of money had already entered ahead of time.

"Grain belongs to commodities, and grain e-commerce is also part of the electronic trading of commodities. The construction of electronic trading market for commodities can not only promote spot circulation, but also form a pricing center, which in turn promotes the development of finance, logistics and other industries, and stimulates the great enthusiasm of local governments, which has shown a trend of vigorous development in recent years. " Hong Tao said.

The reporter noted that a number of online grain trading platforms have claimed that grain online bidding trading has broken through the traditional space restrictions and can provide 24-hour all-weather business hours, so that it has more opportunities to sell its products to more distant places. at the same time, agricultural e-commerce can be geographically dispersed, a small number of separate agricultural products transactions on a large scale.

The head of a major grain trading platform in Beijing said that the biggest advantage of the e-commerce platform is that the grain price information is made public, the release of price information is convenient and timely, and the operation is simple, flexible and convenient. Accelerate the speed of grain transactions, reduce costs, reduce the waste of human resources, "at the same time, make use of the network fast, cross-regional advantages for information transmission, change the transaction mode, not limited by geographical location, especially remote transactions."

Multiple risks

Although the traditional food industry is rapidly converging with the Internet, some industry experts, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were not optimistic about the hasty combination of the two industries.

One of the reasons for "not optimistic" is that China's grain e-commerce is facing many security risks.

"what is more prominent is information security. If grain information is illegally stolen or leaked, it may bring serious consequences and huge economic losses to grain trading markets and grain enterprises. If we can not get accurate and complete information in time, the grain trading market and grain enterprises will not be able to correctly analyze and judge the transaction and make rational decisions. Illegal deletion of transaction information and the loss of transaction information may lead to economic disputes and cause economic losses to one or more parties of the transaction. " As for the adverse consequences of food information security, Hong Tao said frankly that "it is more serious than the people think."

He said that the most common risk of information is illegal theft and disclosure of information, which often causes a chain reaction and forms follow-up risks, typical of which is network fraud, which not only causes grain traders to suffer heavy economic losses, but also, more importantly, may make people lose confidence in grain e-commerce, a new economic form.

Another security risk is the security of transactions. Hong Tao explained that the security of grain e-commerce transactions refers to various unsafe factors in the process of grain e-commerce transactions, including the confirmation of transactions, the provision of goods and services, the quality of goods and services, and the payment of goods.