How big is Henan's contribution under the wheat minimum purchase price policy?

Henan has a long history and a brilliant culture, and is one of the birthplaces of ancient Chinese civilization. It once nurtured more than 1,000 historical celebrities, including the ancient Chinese thinkers Li Er and Zhuangzi, the politicians Shang Yang and Li Si, the scientist Zhang Heng, the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing, the writer Han Yu, the philosophers Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, the national hero Yue Fei, as well as Ji Hongchang, Yang Jingyu, Peng Xuefeng, Deng Yingchao and others. In the long river of history, Henan has always occupied an important position in China's politics, military, economy and culture.

But all of this is history. In modern times, Henan's position in the country has been somewhat awkward, with negative news everywhere. In the eyes of many outsiders, Henan's poverty and scams are the main theme, but today I want to start from the field I follow and clear Henan's name.

In life, what is the foundation of survival?

Food. Without food, no matter how awesome you are, you will be lying down. What is food like in China?

Many people feel that modern people eat a lot of rice, as if China is a country raised on rice, but this is actually a misconception. The rice we eat is mostly consumed as the staple food for three meals a day. What about wheat? Besides noodles and steamed buns for three meals a day, it is consumed even more in other areas. Things like instant noodles, biscuits and bread are basically made from flour.

Let's talk about it in professional terms. China's rice output is currently about 150 million tons. What about flour? It is also about 150 million tons. In addition, wheat also has a huge advantage in storage, which is why the state treats wheat like oil as the most important strategic reserve resource.

Speaking of wheat, let's then talk about the summer harvest market that is now in full swing. Recently, people in the north may have had their social media feeds flooded with all kinds of wheat harvest pictures. In fact, at this time of year, not only farmers are paying attention to summer grain production, the state is also extremely tense. Major wheat-producing areas, under the leadership of grain departments, have successively carried out preparations for the summer grain purchase in advance. The most obvious of these is the advance preparation of this year's wheat minimum purchase price policy.

Let's first look at the first batch of announced wheat minimum purchase price storage points.

At this point, everyone may see that Henan has the most minimum purchase price storage points, reaching 959, accounting for 37% of the total number of minimum purchase price storage points. So how much storage capacity does that account for? The warehouse capacity prepared by Henan is 10.9 million tons, accounting for 56% of the first batch of wheat minimum purchase price warehouse capacity in the 6 major wheat-producing provinces. -- This is not to say how awesome Henan's grain department is, nor to belittle other provinces, but that Henan really needs to prepare so much warehouse capacity to meet farmers' demand for concentrated grain sales and to provide the state with an adequate grain supply.

So, Henan is a major agricultural province. Of its 100 million people, at least 60% are farmers. Therefore, Henan is poor.

Just like national development, the more foundational something is, the less it can be shaken, and the less it can keep soaring like real estate. Therefore, Henan is poor.

The key is that Henan's poverty is not just a matter of one or two days...

The ancients had a very well-said line: He who steals a hook is executed, he who steals a state becomes a lord. It cannot be denied that for a period of time the state, through policy tilts, took away the wealth of some people to build a market with more investment value.

But these are also a stage that New China's development had to go through -- the initial accumulation of wealth. Moreover, in recent years we have also seen Henan's economy developing rapidly. This is a good policy brought by the state feeding back into agriculture, and Henan's positive image is also being shown to everyone. I believe Henan's future will get better and better, just like China's development, and there will eventually be an era of renewed glory.

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