China's total grain storage capacity exceeds 300 million tons, says Ren Zhengxiao, director of the National Grain Administration

        Ren Zhengxiao, director of the National Grain Administration, revealed on the 27th that as of the end of 2013, China had 19,000 various types of grain storage enterprises spread across urban and rural areas, with a total storage capacity exceeding 300 million tons, a 100-fold increase over the early days of the founding of New China.

Ren Zhengxiao said at the national grain system symposium marking the 60th anniversary of the creation of the “Four-No Grain Warehouse” held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, that since the creation of the “Four-No Grain Warehouse” 60 years ago, grain storage enterprises have spread across the country, and the layout of grain storage facilities has been continuously optimized and improved, basically forming a modern grain storage and logistics system with grain logistics bases such as Dalian Beiliang Port, Guangdong Xinsha Port, Shanghai Minsheng Port and Zhejiang Zhoushan as hubs, with grain center warehouses at all levels as nodes, and with grain collection warehouses across the country as the foundation.

“Over the past 60 years, warehouse types have been upgraded and replaced, and storage functions have been significantly improved.” Ren Zhengxiao said that the backward warehouse types from before the 1960s have all withdrawn from the historical stage, and modern warehouse types such as tall flat warehouses, shallow round warehouses and vertical silos account for more than 60% of all warehouses, achieving an upgrade and replacement of grain warehouse types. Of all warehouses, 78% are equipped with mechanical ventilation systems, 57% are equipped with computerized grain condition monitoring and control systems, and 41% are equipped with circulation fumigation systems, making warehouse functions more complete and significantly raising the level of mechanization in storage and logistics operations.

The reporter learned at the symposium that this year is the 60th anniversary of the creation of the “Four-No Grain Warehouse.” Represented by grain cadres and workers in Yuhang, Zhejiang, the first generation of grain workers in New China created in 1954 the “Four-No Grain Warehouse” with no insects, no mold, no rats and no sparrows.

At the symposium, the National Grain Administration awarded honorary certificates as “Outstanding Representatives of the Creators of the Four-No Grain Warehouse in New China” to Xing Fuhe and Wang Baiming, representatives of the veteran comrades who organized and participated in the creation of the “Four-No Grain Warehouse” at that time.