"Chen Dingxin" highlights the embarrassment of grain storage supervision.

If there is "delicious" lamp oil, there will be "rats" who dare to steal lamp oil; if there are loopholes in the system, there will be room for rent seeking. The implementation of joint supervision responsibilities and the clarification of power and responsibility subjects are major issues that grain storage cannot avoid. It is necessary to strengthen the coordinated supervision of all levels and types of storage enterprises from the system to ensure the safety of grain in the world.

A few days ago, according to a number of media reports, some grain depots in Liaoning, Jilin and other places actually traded with grain merchants for power and money, transferred flowers and trees, replaced new grain with old grain to defraud state subsidies, and took away the huge price difference that should have been given to farmers. According to the report, the grain depot defrauded the state subsidies in violation of regulations, and the means of damaging the storage quality were not clever, but the harm it brought should not be underestimated. Defrauding the state subsidies and damaging the public and enriching the private interests affect the enthusiasm of the peasants for production; allowing the circulation of old sesame seeds and rotten millet on the dining table is related to the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of every consumer. Whatever the hazard, it has the potential to shake the foundations of national food security strategies.

"Everything is great, food is great." The Chinese people have mellow thoughts and feelings for land and grain. In order to firmly hold the Chinese rice bowl in their own hands, agricultural workers at all levels have been nervous: "protecting grain at high prices", seizing grain by insects,"rather sweat a thousand drops, not bad a grain of grain", and the provincial governor responsibility system for food security... Under the determined efforts of many parties, the grain production has increased eleven times, which is really a feat in the history of human food and has laid a solid foundation for the all-round development of economy and society. However, how can people not be indignant when the drive to work hard and the feelings of cherishing grain like gold encounter the "rats" who "take the state subsidies with Chen Dingxin"?

According to industry insiders, it is no secret that Chen grain becomes new grain in the industry. Then the question comes. Among the 19,000 storage enterprises and 300 million tons of total storage capacity in the country, how many grain depots have similar problems? How many more of these rats are there? You should know that there is delicious lamp oil, there are "rats" who dare to steal lamp oil; there are loopholes in the system, there is room for rent-seeking.

After the incident, the relevant departments took decisive measures to seal up the grain depot and control the relevant responsible persons. In addition to a thorough investigation of the incident, the State Food Administration decided to take the policy grain depots collected and stored in three provinces and one district of Northeast China as the focus of inventory inspection and seriously supervise them. However, if "Chen Dingxin" really exists in the industry as reported, or is only the tip of the iceberg, then it is obviously necessary to carry out investigations on a larger scale. We should not only carry out strict investigation and special investigation of grain storage violations in the short term, but also resolutely plug the loopholes in the system in the long run.

In order to ensure food security, China has established a strong national reserve system to allocate resources and stabilize the market. At the same time, it protects the interests of grain farmers and promotes food production through purchase at protective prices. China Grain Reserve is an important executive body of the national grain storage policy. It not only undertakes the specific task of grain and oil collection and storage, but also performs the supervision responsibility of grain collection and storage together with the grain administrative system and Agricultural Development Bank. However, the current grain storage and supervision process is facing multiple embarrassment.

Embarrassing one, in the total annual grain storage of 125 million tons of stored grain, the capacity of grain depots directly under it is only 1/5, belonging to a typical "small horse-drawn cart", and there is no effective supervision over the vast number of entrusted storage points and leased warehouses. In this incident, Qingyun Castle Central Grain Depot in Kaiyuan City is a private warehouse leased by Kaiyuan directly affiliated warehouse of China Grain Reserve, while Qianguo Baiyilaga Storage Warehouse in Matsubara City is a local state-owned grain warehouse entrusted by Songyuan directly affiliated warehouse of China Grain Reserve. Embarrassed two, the grain is both "big granary" and "big grain merchant", the grain has both policy and market characteristics and functions, it is difficult to distinguish clearly in practice, but there are some arbitrage and rent-seeking opportunities. Embarrassment 3. From the administrative level, the director of the central grain depot is generally at the county level, and the director of the sub-depot may be at the deputy county level, while many county-level grain directors are only at the section level. From the administrative level, it is difficult for county-level grain departments to form effective supervision over grain depots.

On the basis of continuous grain harvest and existing grain storage capacity, it can be expected that problems such as large purchase volume and large storage volume will continue to plague grain storage system. How to further implement the joint supervision responsibility and clarify the power and responsibility subject is undoubtedly an important issue that grain storage work cannot avoid. To strengthen the effective supervision of grain storage system, especially local state-owned grain depots and private grain depots, we can establish territorial government responsibility system in key grain storage areas with reference to the provincial governor responsibility system for food security, strengthen the supervision capacity construction of local government grain supervision departments on grain storage, and consider introducing a third-party supervision mechanism to supervise various types of grain storage enterprises.

At present, the contradiction between grain purchase volume and qualified enterprise demand is still very obvious. Introducing private enterprises to participate in state grain collection and storage is not only an important supplement to ensure national food security, but also a reform direction that plays a decisive role in resource allocation. However, we should not allow unhealthy market behaviors of "passing inferior products off as good ones", and we should not condone illegal behaviors of "defrauding state subsidies with Chen Dingxin". It is necessary to plug the loopholes in the supervision of storage enterprises at all levels from the system, strengthen the coordinated supervision among the grain administrative management system, the Central Grain Reserve, the Agricultural Development Bank and other departments, and work together to crack down on the "rats" who steal food from the national granaries to ensure the safety of grain.