Standardizing Grain Circulation in Lanzhou's Baiyin District

Strategic Insights -

To ensure food security and promote a smooth grain market operation in Baiyin District, Gansu Province, the Municipal Bureau of Grain and Material Reserves has implemented "three strengthening" measures. These measures focus on regulatory priorities, innovative methods, and improved industry regulatory efficiency. The district has taken special actions to strengthen market order supervision, information-based supervision, and quality and safety supervision to guarantee grain circulation and secure the food supply.

Key Takeaways:

  • The district has launched the "Iron Fist Action" for grain circulation, which involves regular inspections of policy grain and oil inventory, policy grain auction transactions, safe storage, and production safety, to ensure grain business enterprises operate in a standardized manner.
  • The district has rectified all 13 problems found during municipal policy grain and oil inventory inspections and 6 problems found during provincial key inspections, achieving a 100% rectification completion rate, and effectively maintaining the order of the grain circulation market.
  • The district has trained relevant personnel of grain storage departments and storage enterprises to enhance digital supervision and improve the level of smart supervision, relying on the provincial supervision platform to comprehensively strengthen full-process business control.
  • The district has standardized the grain quality and safety monitoring system, strengthened laboratory quality control management, and completed changes in the standards (methods) for qualification certification of five inspections and tests, including the content of insoluble impurities in animal and vegetable oils and fats and the determination of lead and cadmium in food.
  • The district has carried out various quality monitoring work in a solid manner, completed 156 grain quality and safety risk monitoring samples, and taken 25 samples of policy grain stocks for quality inspection, with 20% of the samples tested for food safety indicators.

Statistics:

  • The district has rectified 13 problems found during municipal policy grain and oil inventory inspections and 6 problems found during provincial key inspections, with a total of 100% rectification completion rate.
  • The district has completed 156 grain quality and safety risk monitoring samples, including 106 purchased grains, 30 "safe grain and oil", and 20 wheat special samples.
  • 25 samples of policy grain stocks were taken for quality inspection, with 20% of the samples tested for food safety indicators.
  • The district has trained relevant personnel of grain storage departments and storage enterprises, focusing on explaining the operation of the information library system and the provincial platform data transmission and extraction specifications.

Sources:

  • www.baiyin.gov.cn (original story: https://www.baiyin.gov.cn/byslshcbj/bmyw/art/2025/art_7c6c7d03bb9845d1a1f1382724381f8b.html)