The State Council explicitly requested that the control of food prices rise too quickly

Leading Word: The State Council recently stipulated that the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and other departments should take the prohibition of excessive food price increases as a key to stabilizing prices this year.

The Economic Observer Online reporter Jiang Yunyun stated that the State Council’s recently issued "Opinions on Implementing the "Government Work Report" Division of Key Work Departments" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions") clearly requires that the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and other departments should suppress the price of food too quickly. Rising as the focus of stabilizing prices this year.

According to the division of labor of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Transport and other departments are responsible for this year's work of “doing a good job of price regulation and preventing price rebound”. In terms of production, the more specific requirement is to implement the “rice bag” governor-responsibility system and the “vegetable basket” mayor responsibility system to ensure the supply of major agricultural products (10.80, 0.10, 0.93%) throughout the year; large and medium-sized cities should have A reasonable amount of vegetable land will be maintained, and the self-sufficiency of local seasonal vegetables will be stabilized and improved. In collaboration with the surrounding areas and advantageous production areas, a “vegetable basket” product base will be established. We will strengthen the link between production, transportation and sales of important commodities, improve the government's reserve and commercial reserve system, do a good job in the collection, storage, and release of major agricultural products, and strengthen market regulation and control capabilities.

In terms of circulation of agricultural products, the "Opinions" require all localities to strictly implement the green channel policy for the transportation of fresh and live agricultural products such as vegetables, earnestly implement support policies for wholesale markets for agricultural products, fairs, and affordable food shops in the community, and encourage city supermarket chains, colleges, and universities. Large-scale enterprises, communities and agricultural product circulation enterprises, specialized cooperatives, and large breeding households docking, reduce circulation, increase retail outlets, and give full play to the role of circulation as the main channel.

In order to reduce the cost of circulation of agricultural products, the Opinions proposes to expand the scope of taxation for business tax balances for logistics companies and improve the taxation policy for land for bulk commodity storage facilities. We will adjust and improve the VAT policies for the wholesale and retail of some agricultural products, and promote the standardization and informationization of circulation.

In addition, the "Opinions" also clarified that humiliation should focus on strengthening supervision and inspection of denial of service charges for food, resolutely punish arbitrary charges in the transport sector, correct large-scale retail business violations, severely investigate and publish false information, hoard and manipulate prices. , malicious speculation and other illegal activities.