Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 29, topic: "Don't worry about rice, flour, oil" in the Spring Festival market in the Year of the Tiger

Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Libin

As the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is approaching, the State Food and Materials Reserve Bureau released information and data on the 29th, indicating that the national grain market is stable due to the strong grain "family background" and strong processing and scheduling capacity. From Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei to some areas suffering from disaster and epidemic, people have "no worries about rice, flour and oil" during the festival.

Festival event: important time nodes can be guaranteed

The Spring Festival market should ensure that the finished grain and oil products are not out of stock and kept on file, and that large supermarkets, wholesale markets and farmers' markets are not out of stock - this is the bottom line requirement of the State Food and Materials Reserve Bureau for the work of ensuring supply and stabilizing prices of grain and oil in various regions.

Recently, the State Food and Materials Reserve Bureau held a video conference on ensuring supply and price stability in the grain and oil market during the 2022 Spring Festival, the two sessions, the Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games, and deployed the work of ensuring supply and price stability in the grain and oil market at important time nodes in the near future.

As required, all regions will make every effort to ensure the supply of grain in the market and effectively meet consumer demand. Strengthen the coordinated linkage of grain production, purchase, storage, processing and marketing to ensure that the finished grain and oil products are not out of stock and kept on file, especially to ensure the supply of large supermarkets, wholesale markets and farmers' markets; Accurately arrange policy based grain sales, grasp the rhythm of reserve rotation, and play the role of throughput regulation; Strengthen regional coordination, link with surrounding provinces and key enterprises, and ensure rapid launch when necessary; Strengthen monitoring and early warning, guide and stabilize market expectations; We should closely follow the epidemic situation and market dynamics, focus on key periods, regions and varieties, find and act early, and strengthen the pertinence and timeliness of policies and measures.

The monitoring shows that the grain and oil market in Henan Province is running smoothly, with sufficient supply and basically stable prices. In particular, Zhengzhou, Xuchang, and Anyang did not experience tight supply and price fluctuations in the grain and oil market. The whole province will increase the overall production guarantee of grain and oil processing enterprises to ensure that the supply of grain and oil is not out of stock, and the market price is stable.

According to the Shaanxi Provincial Food and Materials Reserve Bureau, since the epidemic, the grain and oil processing enterprises in the province have been producing at full capacity. The Shaanxi Provincial Food and Materials Reserve Bureau has used 33400 tons of commercial turnover wheat reserves for flour processing, ensuring the raw grain demand of processing enterprises. At present, the province's grain and oil inventory is sufficient, the price of finished grain and oil is stable, and the sales market is stable. Xi'an has 53000 tons of government finished grain reserves and 26000 tons of commercial stocks, which can meet the 21 day consumption demand. The supply of grain and oil market in Shaanxi Province, especially in Xi'an, is fully guaranteed.

Beijing Tianjin Hebei: Abundant varieties of grain and oil and sufficient supply of goods

The grain and material reserve department of Beijing Tianjin Hebei said that at present, the grain and oil market in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei during the Spring Festival, the Two Sessions, the Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games is very strong.

According to the person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Food and Materials Reserve Bureau, the current grain and oil market in the capital is running smoothly, with abundant wholesale and retail grain and oil products, sufficient supply of goods, and orderly purchase and sale in the market; Wholesale, retail and e-commerce prices of grain and oil were basically stable; The production of flour and rice processing enterprises is normal, and the stock of processing materials is sufficient. By the end of 2021, 237500 tons of finished grain will be stored in Beijing's grain depot, which can meet the normal consumption of food rations for the whole city's residents for 37 days; The city has 91100 tons of edible oil products in storage, which can meet the normal consumption of the city's residents for 61 days.

In view of the epidemic prevention and control requirements, it is expected that the number of people who celebrate the Spring Festival in Beijing this year will increase compared with previous years. Road transportation control in some regions may have some impact on grain and oil transportation, and will plan in advance and actively respond.

According to the person in charge of Tianjin Grain and Materials Reserve Bureau, the supply of grain and oil market in Tianjin is sufficient and the price is basically stable. We will do our best to ensure stable supply of grain and oil market during the Spring Festival, the Two Sessions, the Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games.

At present, Hebei Province has sufficient grain stocks and basically stable prices. The provincial local grain stocks reached 21.5 billion jin, 3.33 billion jin more than the same period last year; Grain processing enterprises stored 620 million jin of finished grain in their warehouses.

The head of Hebei Grain and Materials Reserve Bureau said that as a major grain producing province and a major grain processing province, Hebei's two major consumer markets around Beijing and Tianjin, as well as the location of important competition areas for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, will further intensify efforts to ensure adequate supply and stable operation of grain and oil markets during the Spring Festival, the Two Sessions, the Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games. At present, Hebei Province has increased the guidance and guarantee for key cities such as Zhangjiakou.

Grain and oil enterprises: regional coordination and peripheral linkage

Grain and oil enterprises are the main body of market supply. COFCO Oil, COFCO Grain, COFCO Coca Cola, COFCO Jiajiakang, Mengniu Dairy, COFCO Industrial Food and other supply guarantee units of COFCO Group take multiple measures, increase coordination, and spare no effort in production to ensure the terminal supply of supermarkets, stores, etc. during the Spring Festival, the NPC and CPPCC, the Winter Olympics, and the Winter Paralympic Games.

According to the consumption characteristics of the festival market, COFCO will try its best to enrich the supply of the festival market and meet the diversified consumption demand; Strengthen the organization of transportation capacity, flexibly use railways, highways and waterways, strengthen the coordination of terminal distribution, focus on the implementation of "the last kilometer" distribution, and ensure smooth logistics; Actively expand community services and online businesses to meet market supply through multiple channels; Strictly implement the food safety requirements to ensure "safety on the tip of the tongue".

In order to ensure the stable and orderly supply of Beijing market during the Spring Festival, the NPC and CPPCC, the Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games, COFCO Group ranked the supply guarantee of Beijing market as the first level, giving priority to ensuring market supply. At present, COFCO has sufficient stocks of rice, flour and oil products in Beijing, and the sales are increasing. Considering the approaching of the Spring Festival and the reduction of the number of people leaving Beijing during the Spring Festival, COFCO gradually adjusted and increased its stock supply plan.

According to the requirements of the State Food and Materials Reserve Bureau, COFCO Group strengthened regional coordination and improved the linkage guarantee mechanism with surrounding provinces and key enterprises. In terms of edible oil, the normal arrangement of products supplied by Tianjin Factory to Beijing has increased the supply proportion of Shandong and Hebei factories by 100 tons per day; Support Beijing by 500 tons per week from factories in Jiangsu, Hubei and Anhui. In terms of rice and noodles, the products originally supplied by Tianjin Factory to Beijing were normally arranged. According to the actual demand of Beijing market, Yancheng, Dalian, Shenyang and other factories were dynamically started to guarantee the supply. At present, the raw materials and production capacity of each factory are sufficient.