Chapter 411 The grain war between giants: COFCO VS ABCD
Wang Qiang was a little confused: "COFCO Storage? Giant?" For an otaku who doesn't distinguish between grains and only focuses on high-end electronic game technology, this department is really unfamiliar.
Su Su sighed: "Brother Qiang just needs to know that this is a giant. Sinopec, PetroChina, China Mobile, and those who start with China are all big shots."
Wang Qiang said awkwardly: "Who is more giant than COFCO Storage and ABCD?"
Su Su laughed and said, "It depends on how to compare it. If it compares the ability of international food finance, it will definitely be incomparable. But if you fight a food war in China, COFCO Storage will have to prepare for 1V4 plus various domestic comprador speculators."
"In short, the warm-up war started in 2005, when multinational grain traders began to speculate on the food shortage - although the world's food shortage of only 10 million people, accounting for less than 0.2% of the global population, international grain prices were indeed hyped up by grain traders. Faced with such violent fluctuations, the domestic market also rose, up 0.7 times! Brother Qiang knows why?"
Wang Qiang browed: "Issuing an order, no increase is allowed?"
Su Su shook her head: "The order cannot be issued easily, and it will be attacked by WTO member states, especially the United States, not the market economy and not comply with the rules, so COFCO is selling off its stockpiles to stabilize prices."
Wang Qiang then realized: "Yes, yes, as I said before, you must have reserves to stabilize prices."
Su Su smiled and said, "So there was a very interesting phenomenon at that time to crack down on smuggling! In the past, these American-produced countries in Vietnam, Thailand and the United States were smuggled to China, but now there are profiteers smuggling abroad. More typical examples are Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Rice in Shenzhen is sold for 2 yuan and 6 yuan in Hong Kong. Some people take advantage of the loopholes in customs, transporting rice to Hong Kong in a small bag at a time, dozens of times a day."
Wang Qiang browed: "Then is COFCO's way of savings to prevent international grain merchants from making money?"
Su Su said in a deep voice: "Resolution! So during that period, the domestic leading party launched a full firepower, attacking COFCO's storage management backward, with many borers and many moldy grains, and articles flocked to it. It cannot be said that they were spreading rumors. After all, China's grain warehouses were all implemented in county-level units, and there must be uneven management levels and various problems. However, the routine of the public intellectual leading party is to magnify one-sided problems."
Wang Qiang said in surprise: "What about?"
Su Su laughed: "If there is, change it, and if there is no, encourage it. The enemy has pointed out our shortcomings. Of course, it is to accept it humbly and strengthen management! Could it be that the grain warehouse can be dug down?"
Wang Qiang was happy: "What about?"
Susu said: "Then why did you give me some advice to the internationally renowned economists? So XX criticized China's 1.8 billion mu of arable land red line, pointing out that domestic grain production is backward and wastes productivity. Only importing cheap food can effectively alleviate economic problems. Then some university professors also heard about the news in class and criticized international policies to deceive students!"
Wang Qiang said angrily: "Why are you fooling students? The students are all skipping classes and playing games!"
Su Su said angrily: "Brother Qiang thinks all college students are the same as you?"
Wang Qiang struggled: "Are you just allowing the enemy to hype all kinds of things, and we have no movement at all?"
Su Su smiled and said, "Of course, China will play the news broadcast, and the content is usually - this year, a certain province has a bumper harvest of grain production, how many tons or tons, etc. The news broadcast is teenagers don't like to watch it. Finally, a five-way boy who has watched the news broadcast since childhood was still ridiculed by various jokes on the Internet. As for the common people, they must think that it is another official who is hyping up political achievements, and they don't feel that it is really for the enemy. In fact, this is mainly for the enemy. Those who really care about you are often your enemy, so they have to watch every issue of the news without missing a single episode in the morning, noon and evening. When such a harvest and other news comes out, what will the international grain maker react?"
Wang Qiang was amused and crying: "So the news broadcast has such a kind of qualities? I guess international grain traders think it's a holiday news, right?"
Su Su laughed: "To be honest, there are not many people who can understand the news broadcast. Everyone who can really understand it has made a fortune by trading stocks, which is much more reliable than listening to those stock critics. In short, the news must be released when the war is in full swing. First of all, the battle process is very simple - as long as COFCO Storage sells goods, international grain merchants will eat, grain prices continue to rise, COFCO Storage will sell goods and suppress grain prices, and international grain merchants will continue to eat and continue to rise, just like the currency war in Shanghai in 1949, the strength of both sides is the strength of both sides!"
Wang Qiang browed, "Then let the harvest news be released at this time?"
Su Su smiled and said, "Yes! As soon as the harvest news was released, those speculative young players will definitely be frightened. They usually play leverage - does Brother Qiang know about financial leverage?"
Wang Qiang said in surprise: "It's just borrowing several times the money to trade stocks. If you make a profit, you will make a profit several times. If you lose a loss, you will lose a profit several times. You can only jump off the building?"
Su Su smiled and said, "Yes, it's also a high-end player! The so-called high-end players either stand on high buildings and look down on all living beings, or jump down... They cannot use their lives to bet on the truth of the news, and they must be selling goods at a lower price. As long as they sell goods at a lower price, COFCO will eat all of them. This is a high seller and low buyer. So as long as the news is released, there will definitely be a price reduction fluctuation in the price of grain."
Wang Qiang said in surprise: "Where are the big players such as ABCD?"
Su Su laughed and said, "Big players definitely don't believe in evil. International grain merchants are sure to eat China's arable land is insufficient. How can they have so much reserved grain? Not to mention the leading party and beautiful dogs. They usually shake their heads and tails to seek credit for the corruption here and the backwardness there. The advice they give to their owners when they appear is definitely fake news!"
Wang Qiang became even more interested: "What's the result?"
Susu smiled: "The result is that international grain merchants made serious mistakes in calculating China's staple food production and reserves!"
Wang Qiang was happy: "Yuan Dadrui?"
Su Su smiled and said, "Although he and more unknown agricultural science and technology workers have made great contributions, they must also support them at the strategic level. First, after joining the WTO, China exempted agricultural taxes and also gave farmers subsidies. Then the country collected grain at high prices to encourage grain cultivation, etc. These tricks were calculated by the other party, and any normal country would do this. In the final analysis, the other party did not understand Chinese agriculture, but was determined to eat Chinese agriculture, which was backward. A large number of mountainous hilly arable land cannot be mechanized, and it is impossible to produce high grains - so does Brother Qiang understand Chinese agriculture?"
Wang Qiang said awkwardly: "I don't understand, I don't know anything about my grains, and I have never been to the fields."
Su Su smiled and said, "The Party Leader has never been to the fields. So let's talk about how high-tech agriculture in the United States is played. The United States has a population of 200 million and only 3 million farmers, but there are indeed 3 billion mu of arable land, which is still a fertile plain. Basically, a farmer manages thousands of arable land on average. This is a world difference from the Chinese farmers who only have 1.8 billion arable land and guards one arable land. It has to be said that the United States is too advantageous, and the only disaster is the Atlantic hurricane."
"Then when American farmers start construction, they are like the interstellar tank-like large mechanization - don't use the thinking of Chinese engineering bosses to think about the ridiculous question of how much fuel is consumed by American excavator bulldozers. For Americans, oil is not a problem."
"Then after plowing, it is a carpet-style sowing of the plane. After sowing, what should we do if we grow weeds in the field? This reflects the high-tech of the United States - the airplane herbicide sprayed by spraying it, and it would die from the grass and trees! Only the food does not die. Brother Qiang knows why?"
Wang Qiang said horrified: "GMO food!"
Susu said in a deep voice: "Correct! Genetically modified food is not only anti-toxic, but also castrated offspring and cannot be used as seeds. Such plants are actually not very different from monsters. It is hard to say what happens if people eat them. In short, if you don't talk about this, the United States is like this seemingly high-tech, but it is actually extensive grain production."
Wang Qiang hurriedly asked: "Is China weeding manually?"
Susu nodded: "Yes! The most important thing is that there is a word in Chinese agriculture called 'double grab' - that after wheat is planted and harvested, we immediately irrigate the fields and then raise eels and snails in the fields. This is to perfectly and seamlessly connect the growth and harvesting time of the two staple foods, which means that China's grain production is actually doubled! This is the intensive cultivation of Chinese agriculture. How do American farmers understand it? Will the bread-eating country like the United States grow rice? How can rice and other countries like rice and other fields be mechanized? How can they irrigate rice and grow rice as they are so big?"
Wang Qiang then realized: "It seems that rice is the patent of Eastern civilization!"
Su Su sighed: "In fact, the only constraint is mechanization! Chinese farmers in the 1990s were unwilling to grow wheat because it was too troublesome to grab the double. They were just racing against time to plant rice. However, the wheat that had just been harvested did not have time to deal with, so how could they have the time and energy to rectify the rice fields? So after joining the WTO, China took a big move - subsidy for small agricultural machinery! It was the kind of hand-held agricultural machinery. The rice fields could not be played with large-scale mechanization, so they could play with micro-sized ones!"
Wang Qiang browed: "I've seen it! It's that kind..."
Su Su smiled and said, "Yes, and for the United States, the grain output in mountainous areas is almost negligible, and it can only barely support the farmers in mountainous areas. How can we sell too much grain to the country as a strategic reserve? I can only say that this is the gap in civilization's heritage - does Brother Qiang know about terraces?"
Wang Qiang was happy: "I know that the famous tourist attraction in Yunnan is like the mirrors stacked all over the mountains, and the sun shines in all colors!"
Chapter completed!