In the context of promoting high-quality development, the meeting required that we must pay close attention to the guarantee of agricultural production, speed up the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, and promote farmers' income and rural revitalization; we must speed up the restoration of live pig production to ensure supply and stable prices. "The CPI reached 4.5% in November, and less than 2% of pork was excluded. This shows that the increase in pork prices has become an important burden on the cost of living of residents. From the perspective of people's livelihood, stabilizing the price of pigs is of great significance. In addition, the core of the price of pigs is the production of live pigs. The problem is a supply-side problem, not a problem of overheated demand or monetary policy. Therefore, the problem can only be solved by speeding up pig production." Economist Deng Haiqing told a reporter from China Times.
It is understood that at the same time as the meeting, on December 12, the Huashang Reserve Commodity Management Center began to implement the central reserve of frozen pork and put a total of 40,000 tons of frozen pork out of the warehouse. At the same time, it is required that the transaction enterprise shall not take the opportunity to stock up, and to increase the market supply of the frozen pork purchased in an effective way in a timely manner, it must sell the purchased reserve meat to the end user within one month after the transaction is completed. This also guarantees the supply of the "two festivals" on New Year's Day and Spring Festival.
First raise the price of pigs
In fact, outside of the meeting, the central high-level meeting has repeatedly mentioned "stabilizing pig prices."
At the Prime Minister's Symposium held in November this year, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council stated that he must continue to increase efforts to promote pig production. Increase investment support within the central budget, support the construction of large-scale pig breeding farms and pig breeding farms, expand the scope of implementation of livestock and poultry manure resource utilization projects, support the construction of animal and plant protection capacity improvement projects, and promote pigs through these support Stable production and supply.
At the same time, increase the supply of meat through multiple channels, increase the production and supply of beef, mutton, poultry, and eggs, and expand the import of substitutes such as pork, beef and mutton through multiple channels to ensure that the overall meat protein market supply is basically sufficient. It is worth noting that relevant departments will continue to properly implement frozen pork reserves.
On November 30, Vice Premier Hu Chunhua of the State Council made it clear at the National Animal Husbandry Work Conference that it is necessary to fully understand the extreme importance of doing a good job in live pig production, learn the lessons of the decline in live pig production, and focus on live pig production like food production, and fully implement it. Various policies and measures have resolutely completed the task of restoring production.
In November, the CPI rose to 4.5%, a record high in the past eight years, and also exceeded market expectations. Among them, the year-on-year increase in pork wholesale prices is still one of the main factors driving up the CPI. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in November, pork prices rose by 110.2%, affecting the CPI increase by about 2.64 percentage points.
In order to curb meat prices, since September this year, the central reserve of frozen pork has been released 4 times. Among them, the launch on December 12 was ahead of the total three times. Prior to this, the China Merchants Reserve Commodity Management Center released central reserve frozen pork for three times, with a total of 30,000 tons, to increase the stability of the market's pork supply.
In the eyes of industry insiders, the launch on December 12 is mainly to ensure the market supply of the two festivals. Due to the early Spring Festival in 2020 and only more than 20 days before New Year's Day, the launch at this time leaves room for further adjustments in the future.
Not only that, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported on the 9th that with the implementation of a series of national and local policies and measures to restore live pig production, the recent positive changes in live pig production have occurred. Both the stock of live pigs and the stock of capable sows have rebounded, and the price of live pigs has also risen. The decline stabilized. The pork supply situation during the New Year's Day and Spring Festival may be better than expected.
"The effects of the central and local policies for resuming live pig production have begun to show. Coupled with market conditions, the confidence of pig farmers in replenishing stocks has further increased, and the national pig production has bottomed out." said Yang Zhenhai, director of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
pay more attention to people's livelihood
Under full adjustment, the price of pigs began to fall gradually.
Monitoring data released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs showed that the national pork price fell for four consecutive weeks. On December 1, the pork price was 41.48 yuan per kilogram, a decrease of 10.92 yuan from the 52.40 yuan per kilogram peak on November 1, a decline of 20.84%; business The monitoring data released by the Ministry also showed that the wholesale price of pork in the last week of November (November 25 to December 1) was 42.35 yuan per kilogram, a 3% drop from the previous month, achieving four consecutive weeks of decline.
At the same time, my country’s imported pork increased by 43.6% in the first three quarters, and there is no problem in ensuring the basic supply of pork.
However, Xin Guochang, a second-level inspector of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, pointed out that because pig raising does not have tax revenue, finances have to pay for it, land occupation, epidemic prevention responsibilities, and environmental protection responsibilities, which makes local governments less motivated. In many places, Wuzhu County and Wuzhu Township have been established, and this is regarded as a political achievement. This is completely misguided. The pig industry can achieve green development, which is of great significance to industrial poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.
The State Council’s "Opinions on Stabilizing Live Pig Production and Promoting Transformation and Upgrade" also requires all localities to turn the crisis into an opportunity for transformation and upgrading, laying a good foundation for the healthy development of the industry in the future.
In fact, in the conference, "poverty alleviation" has become the first of the three major battles. The meeting required to ensure that the task of poverty alleviation is fully completed on schedule, to concentrate forces to fight the war of deep poverty annihilation, to focus on policies and funds to deeply impoverished areas such as the "three regions and three states", to implement industrial poverty alleviation, relocation and other poverty alleviation measures, and strictly control The poor will withdraw and consolidate the results of poverty alleviation. It is necessary to establish a mechanism to timely monitor and assist the returning to poverty population and the newly emerging poverty population.
In addition, the meeting requested to ensure that people’s livelihood, especially the basic lives of the people in difficulties, are effectively guaranteed and improved; the government must play the role of the government to ensure basic, pay attention to inclusiveness, basicity, and comprehensiveness, and provide basic livelihood guarantees for people in difficulties at key points. .
"With a long-term view, the meat price fluctuations this time also remind us to further improve the animal disease prevention and control system, and at the same time accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the animal husbandry industry, and enhance the anti-risk ability of breeding enterprises." An unnamed industry insider said.