Strive to improve the Competitiveness of Grain Industry

China's grain production has achieved "12 consecutive increases". According to the total output of 621.435 million tons last year, the per capita output is close to 1000 jin, and it can be said that the rice bowl is firmly in our own hands. However, in recent years, there has been a simultaneous increase in "production, inventory and import" of grain in our country. What does the strange phenomenon of "foreign goods entering the market and domestic goods entering the warehouse" mean? The original production capacity can support ourselves, why is there such a large amount of imports and stocks? It shows that our grain industry lacks market competitiveness.

The market demand is low-price and high-quality grain, so looking back on the problems on the supply side, it is not difficult to find that China's grain needs to reduce costs, adjust structure, improve and optimize quality in the field of production, and inventory must be removed in the field of circulation. In a word, the competitiveness of domestic and imported grain must be improved.

How can we improve the competitiveness of our domestic grain? One of the most important links is to make efforts to reduce the cost of production. The per capita arable land area of our country is at a low level in the world. For a long time, the main reason for the high cost of grain production is to rely on manpower to produce grain and the small and scattered business model. To reduce costs, we have to overcome this problem. One is large-scale operation, and the other is mechanized, information-based and intelligent production. In order to meet these two standards, the most favorable conditions are in the plain areas, as well as some shallow hills and Pingba areas, because here is the concentration of China's major cities and towns and transportation system.

This actually involves regional structural adjustment and reform. This needs to change several misunderstandings. First of all, we should not give up growing grain or even reduce grain production just because of our current high cost of grain production, but we should allocate various industries scientifically and rationally on the basis of stable grain; second, we should not think that we have excess grain capacity just because of our high grain stockpiles. In fact, because of our huge population base, the current grain production is definitely not surplus. In the process of implementing the supply-side structural reform in agriculture, we must stick to the grain roots, strive to make up for the shortcomings of grain production, reduce the cost of grain production, improve product quality and market competitiveness, and keep the rice bowl in our own hands more firmly.