Can stored grain curettage cure poison cure the root cause: cut down nearly 9000 entrusted repositories

The audit results recently released by the National Audit Office are a heavy blow to the China National Grain Reserve Management Corporation (CNRG), which exposed a number of management loopholes and caused huge losses in 2013, the audit report revealed.

After the publication of the report of the Audit Office, it was a great coincidence that on June 30, the official website of China Grain Storage reprinted an expert article entitled "giving full play to the role of the China Grain Storage Corporation" (hereinafter referred to as "expert Writing"). It is worth noting that in order to improve storage conditions and reduce management risks, the number of entrusted storage sites of China Grain Storage has been greatly reduced from more than 10000 to more than 1000.

China Business Daily previously reported that China Grain Storage has been repeatedly exposed by the media in recent years, which is in fact the inevitable result of "a horse pulling a cart."

China Grain Storage undertakes the task of purchasing and storing a huge amount of policy grain in the market. Although China Grain Storage is currently the largest grain storage enterprise in China, it only has a storage capacity of more than 50 billion jin, or about 25 million tons. In 2014, for example, the grain purchased by the policy in that year was about 125 million tons, and the storage capacity of China grain storage was far less than the total amount of policy grain.

China Grain Storage has to cooperate with warehousing enterprises outside the system, which lurks a lot of risks. How to supervise the entrusted repository sites all over the country is a difficult problem.

Many of the entrusted storage sites are supervised by the direct depots of the medium grain reserves, but there are not many direct warehouses distributed in the whole country.

According to the above-mentioned expert article, as of October 2014, China Grain Storage had integrated 753 direct warehouses under the jurisdiction of 23 branches into 346 central warehouses, whether it was the later 346 central warehouses or the original 753 direct warehouses. To supervise the original tens of thousands of entrusted storage sites, it can only be said that it is beyond the reach of the whip. It is not surprising that regulation is a mere formality.

In April this year, the "News Room" program of CCTV reported that there was a problem of "Chen Dingxin" in grain collection and storage in Qingyunbao Central Grain Depot in Kaiyuan City, Liaoning Province and former Guo Bai Yilaga Storage Depot in Songyuan City, Jilin Province. It was later found out that the above two depot sites are private depot sites leased by China Grain Storage and local state-owned grain depot sites entrusted by directly affiliated warehouses. The above case proves the difficulty of supervision of entrusted depot sites.

The report of the Audit Office revealed that from 2012 to 2013, due to inadequate control by subordinate units such as Henan Branch and Luohe warehouses, there were problems such as short storage and discrepancies in quality and price of grain stored in storage sites, resulting in losses of 785 million yuan and potential losses of 189 million yuan, including 495 million yuan in 2013.

After a substantial reduction of nearly 9000 commissioned storage sites, the regulatory pressure on grain storage will be significantly improved. However, the root cause of the problem is that if we continue to purchase hundreds of millions of tons of policy grain every year, as the main body of policy implementation, we have to rely on units outside the system, and the compressed entrusted storage sites may still rebound.

And the scale and intensity of grain collection and storage, the decision-making power is not in the hands of grain storage. China's grain is expected to reach "12 consecutive increases" in 2015, while China has imported more than 100 million tons of grain, which is also a record. How to ensure the objective effect of large amount of grain collection and storage is worthy of serious reflection.