Take an objective look at the problem of "major grain-producing counties with poor finances"

The transformation of major grain-producing counties is not to give up grain production, but to achieve a leap from a big county to a strong county. Whether the major grain-producing counties can be successfully transformed into strong grain-producing counties is not only related to the sustainable development of major grain counties, but also related to the sustainability of national food security.

"among the 800 major grain-producing counties, the number of state-level poverty-stricken counties reached 105, with a poverty-stricken population of 36 million." Recently, a research report by the China well-off Construction Research Association pushed the issue of "major grain-producing counties and financially poor counties" to the public, causing strong social concern: "grain-producing counties", as the mainstay of national food security, why have they become "underachievers" on the road to a well-off society in an all-round way?

This is only one side of the problem. The list of the country's top 100 counties released at almost the same time included 18 counties with advanced national grain production, including Qihe in Shandong Province. Although the two evaluation indicators are different, it shows from one side that there is no simple equal sign between the major grain-producing counties and the financially poor counties. Taking 105 state-level poverty-stricken counties as samples for the investigation of major grain-producing counties is as easy to be biased as taking 18 top 100 counties as major grain-producing counties.

It is undeniable that after the complete abolition of agricultural tax, grain production can no longer contribute tax revenue to local governments, and many subsidy policies still need to be supported by local governments. "the more grain you grow, the more losses you will suffer" has become the realistic consideration of local governments. It should also be noted that for a large country with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, grain production is not a simple economic industry, and the comprehensive capacity of major grain-producing counties can not be measured only by financial revenue.

According to statistics, the 800 major grain-producing counties involved in the national plan for an additional 100 billion jin of grain production capacity are less than 30 percent of the total number of administrative counties in the country, but the total grain output is close to 70 percent of the country's total. From 2004 to 2012, large counties with an output of more than 1 billion jin increased by more than 230 billion jin, contributing more than 70% to the "ten consecutive increases" of grain. The two "70%" determine that major grain-producing counties play an important role in the territory of national food security.

In view of this, the central government has continuously increased the efforts to reward and subsidize major grain-producing counties. From 5.5 billion yuan in 2005 to 31.92 billion yuan in 2013, a total of 158.92 billion yuan has been allocated in nine years, with an average of nearly 200 million yuan per county. At the same time, special investment will be arranged for the construction of field projects, agricultural technology service systems, and grain processing projects in major grain-producing counties, to change the current situation of backward infrastructure, and to cancel the county-level financial supporting tasks of 771 comprehensive agricultural development counties out of the 800 major grain-producing counties. Between addition and subtraction, transfer payment has become an important source of financial revenue for major grain-producing counties.

"keeping the status of major grain-producing counties unswervingly has become the top priority of the county party committee and county government." The heartfelt words of a secretary of the county party committee of a major grain-producing county told the truth-grain is relatively inefficient, but for a major grain-producing county, the greatest advantage of its development is grain, and the greatest resource is also grain.

Most of the major grain-producing counties are small economic counties and financially poor counties, which in the final analysis is the reflection of the low grain production efficiency and comparative efficiency. If the whole social production is compared to an assembly line, the average social income of grain production can not be separated from social redistribution. In a sense, the transfer payment of the central finance is to pay for the protection of national food security. Therefore, under the condition that agriculture is still a weak industry, in order to get out of the strange circle of "the more grain is produced, the poorer the finance is," it is necessary for the central government to continue to increase transfer payments to major grain-producing counties, not only to give major grain-producing counties political honor, but also to make them economically beneficial. Only with material benefits can major grain-producing counties have the enthusiasm to seek development, and with income, major grain-producing counties will be able to develop social and public undertakings such as irrigation and water conservancy and agricultural technology services, and realize "storing grain in the land" and "storing grain in technology".

In recent years, the intensity of financial transfer payment is not small, but why is it that some major grain-producing counties have only enough revenue to operate, while some grain-producing counties can become one of the top 100 counties in the country? Of course, the reason for this can be found from factors such as region and resources, but the efficiency of the use of funds is also an important factor. Qihe County, Shandong Province, integrates project funds to set up a demonstration party to show farmers. Ningxiang County in Hunan Province vigorously supports social service organizations and helps farmers, all of which let the limited financial funds play the role of "four or two digging thousands of pounds." it has attracted more farmers and enterprises to enter grain production. From household to square, from medication with small sprayers to helicopter prevention and control of diseases and insect pests, from simple land planing to the integration of the first, second and third industries, when the industry is strong and the farmers are rich, does the government still need to worry about having no money for development?

At present, China is in a critical period of "adjusting the structure and changing the mode", and the adjustment and upgrading of the industrial structure will inevitably bring about a reshuffle of the social structure. The transformation of major grain-producing counties is not to give up grain production, but to achieve a leap from a big county to a strong county. Whether the major grain-producing counties can be successfully transformed into strong grain-producing counties is not only related to the sustainable development of major grain counties, but also related to the sustainability of national food security. In this process, large grain-producing counties need to keep a long eye, accurate positioning, and active planning. If the positioning is correct, grain can become an "explosive", and it is only a matter of time to take off the hat of a financially poor county; if we do not have an accurate positioning and blindly compete with our own shortcomings, we are likely to be poles apart and lose the foundation and origin of development.