Implement the Reliable Grain and Oil Project to Ensure the Quality and Safety of Grain and Oil

　　Since 2001, the National Food Administration has been organizing and implementing the "Trusted Grain and Oil Project." Over more than ten years, with the persistent efforts of grain administrative departments at all levels and grain industry associations, the active participation of numerous grain and oil enterprises, and the care and support from all sectors of society, the Trusted Grain and Oil Project has continuously deepened and achieved good results.

　　First, with food safety as the theme, extensive activities for promoting laws and regulations and popular science publicity have been carried out. On one hand, through various meetings, training sessions, and other forms, food safety laws and standards are promoted to grain and oil enterprises, continuously enhancing their legal awareness, quality awareness, and safety awareness, encouraging enterprises to strengthen management, strictly implement quality and hygiene standards, and ensure the safety and quality of grain and oil. On the other hand, local grain industry associations and grain and oil enterprises organize tailored popular science publicity on grain and oil quality and safety for consumers, making full use of holidays and favorable occasions such as "Quality Month," "Integrity and Business Promotion Month," "Food Safety Publicity Week," and "Science and Technology Activity Week" organized by relevant national departments. In particular, the annual "Trusted Grain and Oil Publicity Day" is held persistently. Since 2012, the State Council Food Safety Office and multiple departments have jointly held the "National Food Safety Publicity Week," listing the "Trusted Grain and Oil Publicity Day" as one of the main contents. During the publicity week, local grain administrative departments, grain associations, and grain and oil enterprises have also carried out diverse and effective publicity activities tailored to local conditions. Through these food safety popular science publicity activities, food safety knowledge has been popularized among consumers, enhancing their self-protection awareness and ability, establishing the industry and enterprise image, enabling consumers to better understand and support the Trusted Grain and Oil Project, and creating a favorable social atmosphere for the project.

　　Second, focusing on product quality, emphasizing strengthened management and standardized services, vigorous efforts have been made to establish trusted grain and oil demonstration enterprises. Grain and oil enterprises are characterized by numerous points and wide distribution, with dispersed operations; most enterprises are small-scale, with simple processes and equipment, and rough management. To guide enterprises to strengthen management, improve quality, and enhance services, the creation of trusted grain and oil demonstration enterprises has been vigorously promoted. Based on the production and operation characteristics of grain and oil enterprises, quality and safety management rules and service standards for demonstration enterprises have been formulated. To date, more than 10,000 demonstration enterprises have been established nationwide, including demonstration processing enterprises, demonstration grain stores, demonstration distribution centers, demonstration staple food kitchens, and demonstration wholesale markets. Among them, 1,340 demonstration enterprises have been approved by the China Grain Industry Association. These demonstration enterprises have played a good exemplary and leading role in the food safety work of the entire industry.

　　Third, great efforts have been made to provide convenient services and deeply promote trusted grain and oil into rural areas and communities. Since the 1990s, with the liberalization of grain purchase and sales and the reform of state-owned grain enterprises, the original grain and oil supply system was broken, with most state-run grain stores being "closed, stopped, merged, or transformed," and the urban and rural grain and oil retail markets basically occupied by individual economies. Although many supermarkets appeared during this process, overall, most rural residents and a considerable number of urban residents still mainly rely on individual vendors and farmers' markets to purchase grain and oil, making quality and safety difficult to guarantee. Therefore, efforts have been vigorously made to promote trusted grain and oil into rural areas and communities, focusing on building urban and rural sales service outlets and developing staple food kitchens and chain distribution. Preliminary statistics show that in promoting trusted grain and oil into rural areas and communities, more than 240,000 sales service outlets have been developed nationwide, including over 140,000 urban outlets and more than 100,000 rural outlets.

　　The Shanxi Provincial Government, to support the construction of trusted grain and oil outlets, has allocated 20 million yuan annually from 2008 for three consecutive years, totaling 60 million yuan, as investment subsidies to drive investment from municipal and county governments and enterprises. The province has built 14 standardized and operational municipal distribution centers, 133 county-level distribution centers, and 11,700 urban and rural chain stores and dealerships, covering 1,300 townships (subdistrict offices), more than 20,000 administrative villages and communities, and more than two-thirds of the province's total population. Shandong's grain and oil service outlets have developed to 22,000, with 56 distribution centers built, 600 dedicated delivery vehicles, and a daily delivery capacity of 2,700 tons. Tianjin Grain and Oil Group, following the municipal government's requirements and deployment, actively developed the Trusted Steamed Bun Project, with a production capacity of 2 million buns per day, over 260 exclusive sales outlets, and product sales covering six districts within Tianjin and some suburban areas. The plan is to increase steamed bun production capacity to 3 million per day in the near future. Xi'an Grain Bureau focuses on building the Trusted Steamed Bun Project and Trusted Soy Products Project, with steamed bun production capacity reaching 1.8 million per day, soy product (tofu, bean sprouts) production capacity reaching 200 tons per day, nearly 1,000 sales outlets built covering all major subdistricts and communities in the city, and the "Trusted Steamed Bun" market share exceeding 60% citywide.

　　In 2013, Shaanxi Province launched the Trusted Grain and Oil Full Coverage Project, deciding to fully integrate and utilize existing grain industry and various social resources within three years to cultivate and support a batch of "Trusted Grain and Oil" enterprises and products in urban communities, county towns, and rural areas, and to standardize, recognize, and list a batch of "Trusted Grain and Oil" demonstration stores and sales points. The People's Government of Hubei Province issued the "Opinions on Implementing the Grain Storage and Supply Security Guarantee Project" (E Zheng Fa [2013] No. 54), striving to build one provincial grain marketing platform, 20 regional wholesale markets, 100 finished grain and oil distribution centers, 1,600 trusted grain and oil chain stores, 210 emergency processing enterprises, and 10 provincial military grain supply comprehensive guarantee centers by 2020, constructing a trusted grain and oil market supply and emergency network covering the entire province.

　　Fourth, strengthening the credit system construction and improving enterprise credit levels. Credit is the cornerstone of the market economy and the premise and guarantee of food safety. In 2004, the State Food and Drug Administration, to implement the State Council's deployment on the Food and Drug Trusted Project, decided to pilot the construction of a food safety credit system in three industries: grain, meat, and children's food. To this end, the China Grain Industry Association organized relevant enterprises to conduct pilot work, focusing on strengthening the foundation of enterprise credit management. Based on the different characteristics of rice processing, wheat flour processing, and edible oil processing industries, the "Enterprise Production and Operation Archive Model Text" was formulated to guide enterprises to strengthen management and standardize operations. This was piloted in pilot enterprises and promoted among relevant enterprises, achieving good results. In 2008, the China Grain Industry Association was again designated by the Ministry of Commerce and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission as the industry credit evaluation pilot association to carry out industry credit evaluation pilot work. We adopted the method of voluntary enterprise application, provincial grain industry association review and recommendation, third-party institutions conducting strict evaluations according to prescribed indicator systems and evaluation methods, and final approval by the China Grain Industry Association. A total of 211 pilot enterprises were credit evaluated, with credit ratings assigned: 146 AAA, 49 AA, and 16 A. Through the credit evaluation pilot work, enterprises' integrity awareness was enhanced, the foundation of enterprise credit management was strengthened, credit levels improved, and experience was gained and laid a foundation for strengthening the credit system construction in the grain and oil industry.

　　Fifth, guiding grain and oil enterprises to enhance social responsibility awareness and consciously fulfill social responsibilities. Based on the characteristics of the grain and oil industry and specific situations of grain and oil enterprises, the China Grain Industry Association formulated and issued the "Guidelines for Social Responsibility of Grain and Oil Enterprises," proposing specific contents and requirements for various social responsibilities that grain and oil enterprises should fulfill, including grain and oil quality and safety, guiding and promoting enterprises to actively fulfill social responsibilities. At the same time, in response to work tasks and existing problems at different periods, cooperating with relevant government departments, enterprises are guided to fulfill responsibilities and serve the overall situation. For example, in 2011, to implement the important deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on ensuring supply and stabilizing prices, maintaining grain and oil food safety and price stability, the China Grain Industry Association, together with grain industry associations of various provinces and cities and 129 central and local backbone enterprises such as China Grain Reserves Corporation, COFCO Group, and Jingliang Group, jointly issued the "Initiative on Consciously Maintaining Grain and Oil Food Safety and Price Stability," which received widespread response from grain and oil enterprises nationwide.

　　After years of persistent efforts, the Safe Grain and Oil Project has continuously developed, becoming increasingly well-received and recognized by the government, enterprises, consumers, and other sectors. Today, the Safe Grain and Oil Project is not only a key project of the national grain department but also an important "livelihood project" in many provinces, cities, and counties, included in the work plans of party committees and governments. The implementation of the Safe Grain and Oil Project has effectively promoted the improvement of management levels and product quality safety standards of grain and oil enterprises. According to the results of the national supervision and sampling inspection of product quality, the overall pass rate of rice, flour, and oil product inspections has increased from about 50% more than ten years ago to a stable rate of over 95% in recent years.