The country’s grain production area has its center of gravity moving northwards

Of the 29 cities and towns in China whose grain production exceeds 10 billion kilograms, 17 are concentrated in Heilongjiang, Henan, and Shandong provinces. Among them, Shandong accounted for 6, Heilongjiang accounted for 6 (including Heilongjiang reclamation area), Henan accounted for 5, belonging to the main southern provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei each have a city of 100 billion yuan in output. Behind the distribution map of the grain production market is the change in the geographical focus of China's grain production.

Many years ago, considering the differences in resource endowments of various provinces and the tradition of developing grain production, according to the characteristics of grain production and consumption, the country divided the three major functional areas of grain production areas, production and sales balance areas, and main sales areas. According to preliminary statistics, 75% of the country's grain production, more than 80% of commodity grain, and more than 90% of the relocation volume come from 13 major producing provinces.

At present, grain production has continued to be concentrated in major producing areas, especially in the main producing areas in the north. In the country's 13 main grain producing provinces, the grain production increased by 280.6 billion kilograms in 9 years, which accounted for 75.7% of the national total in 2003, up from 71.0% in 2003. The 9-year increase accounted for 88.3% of the national increase. Among them, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Shandong, Hebei and other seven major producing areas in the north accounted for the proportion of the country's total output increased from 39.5% in 2003 to 46.0% in 2012, accounting for 63.4% of the national increase. The proportion of grain output in the six main producing areas in Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, Jiangxi Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, and Sichuan Province accounted for 1.8 percent of the national total in the past nine years.

At the same time, the proportion of grain production in the main sales area and the balance between production and sales declined further. The sown area of ​​grain in the southeastern coastal areas continues to decrease. In Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan, the grain area decreased by 17.4 million mu in 9 years and the output fell by 1.9 billion kg. Under the background of increasing grain production in China, the geographical gravity of grain production has gradually shifted from south to north, and the grain circulation pattern of “Northern Grains and South China Transport” has been further highlighted.

According to Ye Zhenqin, Director of the Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture, it is necessary to promote the construction of main functional areas and build a new round of main force for grain growth. On the basis that the country has identified 13 major grain-producing provinces, a batch of major grain-producing and grain-producing counties have been designated based on the grain area, production volume, commodity volume, and resource potential in recent years, and a batch of grain sources capable of providing stable food resources have been established. "national team". In the main grain sales area and production and sales balance area, according to the resource conditions and potential, a batch of main grain-producing counties and cities and major towns and townships have also been designated, making it a regional “balance force”, establishing a benefit compensation mechanism and implementing special support. Policies make it the backbone of the next round of grain growth. At the same time, it will focus on transforming the northeastern black belt, improving the saline-alkali land in the Yellow River and Huaihe River, improving the agricultural land in the southern red and yellow soils, and building China's three major grain production areas.

It is understood that the Ministry of Agriculture will give prominence to the core production areas and advantageous production areas and do a good job in the 13 major grain-producing provinces, the grain-producing cities with output exceeding 10 billion jins, and the grain-producing counties with output exceeding 2 billion jins.