Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 807 The World's Granary 2

Back to the present time, several department heads are in Qi Tongwei's office, including Hu Haiou, Li Hainiao, Tian Guofu, Lu Liang and the new Minister of the Propaganda Department, Sun Qi.

Tian Guofu, head of the Seventh Supervisory Office, is speaking.

"Deputy Secretary Qi, we have already contacted the contact person at the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Assistant Minister Yi Xuexue, and held a preliminary meeting.

At the same time, a plan for a nationwide occupation investigation will be determined, tentatively involving the province to draw discipline inspection personnel from various cities to conduct coordinated spot checks. "

As long as Tian Guofu doesn't say weird things, his ability to do things is pretty good. Maybe it was because he spoke with contempt and sarcasm towards others that he offended most people in the team and was actually kicked out.

Qi Tongwei does not have as good a temper as Sha Ruijin. Tian Guofu now dares not say even a single weird word in front of Qi Tongwei. If he does, Qi Tongwei will beat him up without hesitation. So Tian Guofu just dares to do his work.

"Well, now that the mission is clear, let's go out and do our work.

The grain system should set up inspection and supervision teams in each province and report the list to me before Monday.

As for the team leader, he should be at least at the department head level, and some idle patrol officers can be sent out.

For provinces with serious food problems, you should select deputy ministerial cadres or even the heads of several inspection offices to lead teams.

Among the six regions, we will probably be assigned our own Central China region.

Next Friday I will ask the General Office to formally issue the inspection notice, and then give their local disciplinary inspection commission nine days, including a week and the weekend, which should be enough.

We can directly see the results of their special survey when we go there. The six regions in the country will be ranked, and it should be about the same to clear the list in two months.”

The superiors required three months. After screening over the past few days, the team of the original Grain Bureau has basically determined who will pass.

The NDRC also had a very good attitude this time. The director went directly to the general manager to review his dereliction of duty, which was considered as giving up the opportunity for a change of leadership next year. The new Grain Bureau team has already been formed under the general manager's leadership.

Three months is just enough time for the new leadership of the Grain Bureau to reorganize its subordinate grain bureaus. In fact, most grain bureaus do not need to be reorganized. Whoever is corrupt will be arrested, and the people below can just take over. The procedure is far less complicated than that of the grain bureau above.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development was also carrying out an investigation at the same time. It was Qi Tongwei who approached Gao Yuliang. Food security has never been an isolated issue, but rather a complex one involving various problems. There are also constant reports of people ignoring the red line of arable land and encroaching on it.

Not to mention the distant past, just when Qi Tongwei was the district mayor of Dong'ou City in 1996, he occupied a lot of arable land in order to develop real estate. But at that time he used a tricky method and developed a small hill, using the area of ​​the hill's terraced fields to make up for the occupied arable land.

The output value of the primary industry is by no means comparable to that of the secondary and tertiary industries, and the assessment standard for the past decade or so has been GDP.

Local officials in other places are unlikely to be as honest as Qi Tongwei. They just occupy the arable land. How much is the annual output value of one acre of arable land? Planting rice or wheat only makes a few thousand yuan a year, which is not enough to feed a family of three.

However, the transfer fee for the same acre of industrial land in some medium-sized prefecture-level cities is hundreds of thousands. The benefits obtained after the factory is built can provide at least a dozen jobs. The jobs can stimulate the consumer market of the tertiary industry. The temptation is too great.

However, food security is a national strategy. Occupying arable land for short-term benefits will certainly not be a problem when the world situation is stable and the economy is developing rapidly. It may even be cheaper and more economical to buy grain from large foreign grain traders than to grow it at home. But when real problems break out, it will become a fatal rope.

This kind of experience has been around for thousands of years. Grain merchants who hoard grain do not care that ordinary people cannot afford to buy grain. Foreign grain merchants are even more ruthless. After liberation, they have had many fierce confrontations with our country. The experience they gained was all gained with blood and tears.

In addition, one point that Qi Tongwei did not mention is that Zhongjiang Province, a major grain-producing province in the Central Plains, is also the province where the secondary and tertiary industries have most seriously encroached on the primary industry.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development’s first inspection campaign would inevitably lead to conflicts with the local government of Zhongjiang Province. At that time, it would be the best opportunity for Qi Tongwei to take advantage of the situation to launch the inspection campaign.

For a good hunter, all traps are linked together. If you miss the first mine, you will fall off the cliff.

The topic of food security just hits the sensitive nerve of the central government. Since the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, food issues have always been a pain in the central government. During special periods, the central government was blackmailed by those small countries in South Asia. I won't go into more details. It is a painful experience for the country and the people.

The soybean crisis that occurred a few years ago has caused the grain seed industry to become heavily dependent on foreign resources. Broilers and pigs have long been dependent on imports, and many high-end vegetable seeds are also tightly controlled by foreign grain traders.

Even large agricultural machinery and fertilizers are highly dependent on imports, and the relevant leaders of the State Council worry about food problems almost every year.

At this juncture, Qi Tongwei proposed to rectify the grain system, which actually hit the nail on the head. After rectifying the systemic corruption, the next thing to come is the major structural problems.

The major structural problem is that leaders of provinces with large output are no longer willing to engage in the low-return primary industry and hope to shift to the secondary or tertiary industries with higher value returns.

The problem of encroachment on farmland is inevitable. After listening to Gao Yuliang's report, Zhao Mengsheng immediately instructed the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to investigate national farmland data.

Qi Tongwei was also there at the time, and Mr. Zhao’s original words were:

"The problem is shocking. The situation of farmland occupation in several major grain-producing provinces is shocking."

Qi Tongwei and President Zhao have known each other for a long time, but this is the first time he has heard him make such a serious comment on an issue. Qi Tongwei guessed that the situation known by the State Council might be far more serious than everyone imagined.

In addition, according to Qi Tongwei's memory, the next severe soybean crisis will be next year. The relevant departments may have been preparing to import soybeans, and some problems may have been exposed.

Gao Yuliang also did some research on this, especially after Qi Tongwei reminded him.

“Boss, this phenomenon exposes the deep-seated contradiction between farmland protection and local development demands.

Now this problem directly threatens our country's basic foreign strategy and must be contained in a timely manner."

This was Gao Yuliang's responsibility, to check the arable land, and naturally he would start with the harmfulness, but Zhao Mengsheng's brows only furrowed even more.