A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.

As long as he thinks that in another half a year, there will be a little cub to "play", Qi Zheng feels that life is so beautiful - isn't there a saying that if having a child is not for play, it will be meaningless.

But before Qi Zheng, who was full of "fatherly heart", slipped away to find the child's mother, an uninvited guest stopped Qi Zheng.

Zhou Meng, deputy director of the Price Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, who rushed to the Jiagu headquarters, ignored Qi Zheng's "complaining" gaze, he and the senior management of Jiagu have been on friendly relationship for several years, and sat down in Qi Zheng's office with ease, and said directly: "Qi Dong, I am here to seek Jiagu's support......

Qi Zheng was slightly shocked by Zhou Meng's sudden "call for help", but thinking about Zhou Meng's duties, he knew it in his heart.

Deputy Director of the Price Department, Qi Zheng is sure that Zhou Meng's intention is related to the current abnormal prices.

This year's weather is really abnormal, and frequent natural disasters have become a major challenge to stabilizing and increasing agricultural output, and the cold wave in the north and even the drought in the southwest have affected the output of many agricultural products.

The first to kick off the price increase is vegetables, "inverted spring cold" led to the postponement of the listing of greenhouse vegetables in the north, the rise in oil prices has led to an increase in transportation costs, vegetable prices have completely entered the "Yuan era" - in nearly 20 kinds of vegetables, at least 13 vegetables ask for more than 4 yuan catty, 1 yuan catty below the vegetable is almost extinct.

Many middle-class people who have always "don't know the price of firewood and rice" and claim to "don't care too much about money" have experienced the pressure of rising food prices, and have changed from the previous vegetarianism to eating meat. ”

In addition to vegetables, other food products, including fruits, grains and oils, have also risen in price to varying degrees. Following the emergence of "house slaves", recently, there have even appeared on the Internet "vegetable slaves" and "fruit slaves" who claim to be unable to eat vegetables and fruits.

Is this across-the-board inflation coming?

– What is inflation?

For example, if you have 30 yuan in your pocket, you can buy 11 catties of rice, 2 catties of pork and 2.6 catties of edible oil in 1998; by 08 years, you can buy 5 catties of rice, 0.7 catties of pork and 1.1 catties of edible oil; but as far as the current market price of agricultural products is concerned, 30 yuan can only buy 1 catty of mung beans and 2 catties of garlic -- the academic term "inflation" is so true and ubiquitous in life.

The inflationary pressures reflected in the official CPI may not seem to be very large, but the real level of inflation is far beyond what the CPI can reflect. Very simply, no matter how much the price of the house rises, no one buys a house every day, but vegetables are an essential daily necessities, and the residents' CPI feelings are "magnified" by the obvious increase in prices of vegetables.

When Internet languages such as "garlic you are ruthless", "bean you play", "ginger you army" are popular, behind the seemingly banter words, what is revealed is the unhappiness of ordinary people.

As a member of the price department of the State Council, Zhou Meng scratched his ears and cheeks for this.

"There are two major factors that cause inflation, one is the price of food, and the current price of vegetables and grain is very high, which is cause for concern. Another factor is the real estate factor, and high housing prices will bring upward pressure on upstream and downstream industries. However, with the introduction of national regulatory policies, the threat of this factor has been greatly alleviated. Zhou Meng analyzed.

The property market has fallen into a certain downturn under what has been described as "the most stringent regulatory policy in history", while the stock market has continued to plummet, with the Shanghai Composite Index hitting a new low in a year.

"Housing prices are not a big problem, the most important thing now is to curb inflation expectations by controlling the prices of agricultural products......"

Qi Zheng looked at Zhou Meng sympathetically, and thought: Housing prices are not a big problem? For a considerable period of time in the future, housing prices will be the "main culprit" driving the CPI upward.

However, the pool of real estate is too deep, and Qi Zheng didn't say much. Moreover, Zhou Meng's idea is good, and Qi Zheng also hopes to control the current abnormal price rise in China.

Zhou Meng saw that Qi Zheng's expression was a little weird, and his mind became uncertain, so he couldn't help asking, "Uh, does Qi Dong have any opinions?"

Qi Zheng shook his head, but said suddenly: "The price increase of agricultural products this time was affected by supply and demand in the early stage, and in the later stage, it was probably speculated." ”

Zhou Meng slapped his thigh: "No, I know that Qi Dong is an understanding person!"

Since the beginning of this year, frequent natural disasters at home and abroad have been the main reason for the decrease in the supply of vegetables, grains and other agricultural products this year, but when it comes to soaring prices, the problem is not so simple.

"Especially in the context of the deepening of the current new real estate policy and the fact that the whole people are about to become a thing of the past, a large amount of social capital - I estimate that as high as three or four hundred billion yuan has nowhere to go, and some agricultural products that have been reduced due to disasters have been regarded as the objects of a new round of speculation. Zhou Meng said hatefully.

Qi Zheng expressed his hehehes that "speculation is about to become history", but he agreed with the transfer of capital into the agricultural product market for speculation and profit.

As one of the top agricultural giants in China, although Jiagu has been stationary, it does not mean that Jiagu is ignorant of the market.

All kinds of signs show that various types of tourist capital are carrying out "cost sniping" and "price urging" on domestic agricultural products in order to make profits, and there are still many shadows of overseas tourist capital behind these speculators.

The National Development and Reform Commission is also under great pressure, and the stability of agricultural product prices is directly related to people's livelihood and economic development.

But if you want to fight the speculation of travel money, the best way to deal with it is to have sufficient material reserves.

Why can China's grain prices remain in a stable state? It is very simple, because our country has the largest grain reserves in the world, and when China's grain reserves reach the consumption of half a year or even a year, no one dares to speculate.

However, when it comes to inconspicuous agricultural products such as garlic, ginger, and mung beans, they are basically areas where the state regulates and controls.

When the NDRC launched a heated discussion, unexpectedly, Zhou Meng remembered Qi Zheng and his Jiagu Group.

Today, everyone has to admit that Jiagu has the most complete agricultural supply chain in China. Moreover, the more in-depth understanding of Jiagu's agricultural product supply chain, the more Zhou Meng realized how difficult and courageous Jiagu was to establish this agricultural product supply chain.

The storage and cold storage all over the country, the acquisition system in the field, and the high-standard agricultural production base under direct control all make Zhou Meng admire the layout of Qi Zheng.

In particular, Jiagu is also a member of the national strategic reserve storage enterprise, and has done its best in pork, rice, and edible oil reserves, and Zhou Meng naturally regards Jiagu as a "savior".

He asked eagerly: "Qi Dong, I know that Jiagu has purchased garlic, mung beans and other agricultural products before, but I don't know how much the current reserves are?"

As for why Zhou Meng and even the entire National Development and Reform Commission did not suspect that Jiagu was hoarding Juqi by this, then do you need to say more? With Jiagu's current size and status, as long as the management is not stupid, they will not do such a deadly thing.

Qi Zheng smiled dumbly: "Actually, even if you don't come, we are ready to take the initiative to contact ......"

Zhou Meng was overjoyed when he heard this.

He knew Qi Zheng, if he hadn't been fully prepared, Jiagu wouldn't have been a bird.

"Tsk, looks like we can do a big deal!"

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