Ren Zhengxiao, director of the State Grain Administration: the total grain storage capacity in China exceeds 300 million.

Ren Zhengxiao, director of the State Grain Administration, revealed on the 27th that by the end of 2013, China had 19000 grain storage enterprises of all kinds in urban and rural areas, with a total storage capacity of more than 300 million tons, a 100-fold increase over the beginning of the founding of New China.

At a forum held by the National Grain system in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the "four no granaries," Ren Zhengxiao said that since the establishment of the "four no granaries" 60 years ago, grain storage enterprises have spread all over the country, and the layout of grain storage facilities has been continuously optimized and improved. basically formed with Dalian Beiliang Port, Guangdong Xinsha Port, Shanghai Minsheng Port, Zhejiang Zhoushan and other grain logistics bases as the hub, at all levels of grain central warehouses as the node A modern grain warehousing and logistics system based on grain storage stores all over the country.

"over the past 60 years, grain depots have been upgraded and their warehousing functions have been significantly improved." Ren Zhengxiao said that the backward warehouse types before the 1960s have all retired from the historical stage, and modern warehouse types such as tall flat warehouses, shallow silos and vertical silos account for more than 60% of all warehouses, and the granary type has been upgraded. Of all the warehouses, 78% are equipped with mechanical ventilation systems, 57% are equipped with computerized grain situation measurement and control systems, 41% are equipped with recirculation fumigation systems, the functions of granaries are more complete, and the degree of mechanization of warehousing and logistics operations is significantly improved.

The reporter learned at the forum that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the "four no granaries." The first generation of grain people in New China, represented by grain cadres and workers in Yuhang, Zhejiang Province, established the "four no granaries" in 1954 without insects, mildew, rats and finches.

At the forum, the State Grain Administration awarded Xing Fuhe and Wang Boming, representatives of veteran comrades who organized and participated in the establishment of the "four no granaries" in that year, the honorary certificate of "excellent representatives of the creators of the four non-granaries in New China."