Xinjiang Takes The Lead In "Testing Water" Cotton Price Reform

Here in the world Clothing shoes and hats The editor of the website introduced that Xinjiang took the lead in "testing" cotton price reform.

Recently, the reporter learned from the press conference of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's cotton target price reform pilot work held by the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that, with the approval of the State Council, the Implementation Plan of Xinjiang's Cotton Target Price Reform Pilot Work was officially issued and implemented by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance on September 16.

According to the requirements of the No. 1 Document of the Central Committee and the deployment of the State Council, the pilot reform of cotton target price in Xinjiang was launched in 2014, and Xinjiang is also the only province in China to pilot the reform of cotton target price. Since October 2013, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and nine national ministries have been working intensively on the preliminary work.

According to the Implementation Plan, the pilot policy of Xinjiang cotton target price reform mainly includes the following aspects: First, cancel the cotton purchase and storage policy. The government does not interfere in the market price. The price is determined by the market. Producers sell cotton at the market price. Second, target price subsidies will be implemented for Xinjiang cotton. The target price of cotton is announced before planting. When the market price is lower than the target price, the state will subsidize the producers in the pilot area according to the difference between the target price and the market price; When the market price is higher than the target price, no subsidy will be granted. The third is to improve the subsidy method. The target price subsidy amount is linked to the planting area, the quantity of seed cotton sold and the planting varieties.

In the pilot phase, the target price subsidy targets the actual cotton growers in Xinjiang. It mainly includes: basic farmers (including village collective mobile land contractors), local state-owned farms, judicial farms, military farms, non-agricultural companies, large growers and other cotton production and management units with various forms of ownership.

The Implementation Plan clearly stipulates that: cotton The planting area, the area of cotton planted on the land that the state and Xinjiang have specified for conversion to farmland, and the area of cotton planted on the land that has not been reclaimed without approval or the land that is prohibited from reclamation, shall not be included in the scope of subsidies. The sale of seed cotton to unauthorized cotton processing enterprises shall not be included in the subsidy scope of seed cotton sales volume.

The allocation and distribution of cotton target price subsidy funds are carried out in two steps: first, after the end of the price collection period, if the market price in Xinjiang is lower than the current announced cotton target price, the central finance will verify the total amount of subsidies in Xinjiang according to the difference between the two prices and the Xinjiang cotton output counted by the National Bureau of Statistics, and allocate the amount of subsidies to Xinjiang finance at one time. Second, Xinjiang Finance allocates subsidy funds to local finance level by level according to the time when the central finance allocates subsidy funds and the combination of verified actual cotton planting area and seed cotton sales volume (60% of the central subsidy funds are subsidized by area, 40% by actual seed cotton sales volume), Cash area subsidy funds to basic farmers and agricultural production in the form of "all-in-one card" or other forms management Company.

At present, Xinjiang's cotton planting areas are mainly distributed in more than 60 counties (cities) and more than 110 regimental farms in the south and north of Xinjiang. More than 90% of the counties (cities) in the south of Xinjiang grow cotton, and about 50% of Xinjiang's farmers (more than 70% of them are ethnic minorities) are engaged in cotton production. About 35% of farmers' per capita net income comes from cotton planting, and the main production areas account for 50%~70%.