Improve the compensation mechanism for the interests of major grain-producing areas

The state should strengthen support policies for major grain-producing areas and continuously enhance the comprehensive production capacity
of grain in major grain-producing areas.
It is necessary to accelerate the exploration of the establishment of a horizontal compensation mechanism for the main grain sales areas to the main producing areas, and also need to cultivate relevant "hematopoietic" functions to stimulate the endogenous driving force
of economic development.

The grains are abundant, and the food is safe in the world
.
This year's bumper grain harvest is a foregone conclusion, and the main grain-producing areas shoulder the important task of stabilizing food security and ensuring stable grain production and increased production, but it is also an indisputable fact that
the economic development of the main producing areas is lagging behind.
Improving the compensation mechanism for the interests of the main producing areas is an important policy
put forward by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Recently, the central government issued 211.
5 billion yuan in agriculture-related transfer payments in 2023 ahead of schedule, which will help mobilize and protect the enthusiasm of heavy farmers in major producing areas to grasp grain and better ensure national food security
.

Whether to want grain or economic benefits has always been a dilemma that plagues the main grain-producing areas
.
Food is relatively inefficient and has a limited
financial contribution.
In order to ensure grain production and supply, the main producing areas have to give up some industries with high income and quick results in industrial selection, and put more financial input into grain production, resulting in the problem of "grain and wealth inversion"
.
In order to ensure food security, the main producing areas sacrifice many opportunities for economic development, and the state's compensation and support for the main grain-producing areas have become a powerful policy lever
to mobilize the enthusiasm of local governments to focus on grain and stabilize grain production and supply.

In recent years, the state has implemented a vertical compensation mechanism based on financial transfer payments for major grain-producing areas, continuously increased the intensity of financial transfer payments to major grain-producing areas, increased the input of incentive funds in major grain-producing counties, and given incentives to major grain-producing counties, oil-producing counties, major commercial grain provinces, major seed-producing counties, and provinces implementing the "high-quality grain project" that meet the regulations, so as to ensure that heavy farmers in major grain-producing counties do not suffer losses
in grasping grain 。 However, after all, the central financial transfer payment and bonus funds are limited, which can only alleviate the problem of financial difficulties in the main producing areas, and cannot fundamentally solve the dilemma of "inverted grain and wealth" and "high-yield and poor counties" faced by the main producing areas or large grain-producing counties, and it is imperative to improve the compensation mechanism for the interests of the main producing areas
.
The state should strengthen policy support for the main producing areas, and all support policies should be tilted towards the main producing areas, and continuously enhance the comprehensive production capacity
of grain in the main producing areas.
To further strengthen the intensity of financial transfer payments to major producing areas and the intensity of incentives and subsidies to large grain-producing counties, various incentive and subsidy policies should not only be linked to grain output, but also comprehensively consider indicators such as grain transfer, land output rate, resource utilization rate, and labor productivity to ensure that the fiscal revenue of major producing areas reaches the national average
.

Speed up the exploration of the establishment of a horizontal compensation mechanism
for the main grain sales areas to the main producing areas.
At present, there is an inversion of interests in the main grain-producing areas and the main sales areas, grain, as an important product to ensure the national economy and people's livelihood, cannot raise prices at will, grain often flows from the main producing areas to the grain demand areas at a lower price, and the prices of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and other inputs remain high, resulting in the loss of interests in the main grain-producing areas in the process of input and output, while the main sales areas can earn higher profits
through intensive processing and circulation of grain 。 To change this situation that is not conducive to food security, it is urgent to speed up the exploration of the establishment of a mechanism for linking the interests of grain production and marketing areas, establish a compensation system for the main grain production areas to the main producing areas, guide enterprises in the main sales areas to participate in the construction of grain production bases, storage facilities, processing parks and marketing networks in the main producing areas, transform from the previous "supply and demand cooperation" to "supply chain cooperation", and gradually form a new pattern
of diversified, large-scale and modern grain production and marketing cooperation.

For the main producing areas, it is necessary to "transfuse" the country and the areas where grain is transferred, and it is more necessary to cultivate the "hematopoietic" function and stimulate the endogenous driving force
of economic development.
At present, the main problems facing the economic development of the main producing areas are the weak industrial foundation and the lack of strong driving and support
for economic development.
The biggest advantage of the main producing areas is that they are rich in grain resources, and in order to transform the advantages of food resources into industrial advantages and economic advantages, it is necessary to change the current state of separation of grain processing and transformation bases from grain production, and improve the local processing and transformation capacity
of grain in the main producing areas.
For example, major producing areas such as Shandong, Jiangsu, Hubei and Henan have realized the transformation
from a large grain province to a strong grain province through high-quality development of the grain industry.

Practice has proved that the main producing areas can rely on the advantages of food resources to get out of the predicament
of regional economic development.
The state should vigorously support the main producing areas to rely on the county to develop grain processing, deeply implement the high-quality grain project, build a development pattern of the whole industrial chain of production, supply, storage and marketing, increase brand cultivation, and promote the transformation of the main producing areas from "selling raw grain" to "selling products" and "selling brands", and from "large granaries" to "big kitchens", so as to truly achieve a win-win
situation between ensuring national food security and regional economic development.
(Edited by Li Chuang)