Article 11 of China's “Administrative Measures for the Storage of Government Grain Reserves” dictates: “Organizations engaged in reserve storage should maintain records related to their affairs and their storage and logistics facilities in line with relevant regulations and fulfil the obligation of the government to safeguard reserve storage and logistics facilities.”

This section of the document emphasizes that records should be kept “in line with relevant regulations” and is mostly based on information related to the following points from the “Measures for the Administration of Grain and Oil Storage”:

“Organizations engaged in grain and oil storage should file records with the local grain administration department within 30 working days from the date of commencement of grain and oil storage activities. The records should include their name, address, legal representative, main type of storage business, storage capacity and other relevant information.”

The “Measures for the Protection of State-Owned Grain and Oil Storage and Logistics Facilities” state: “Organizations engaging in grain and oil storage should file a statement with information about their grain and oil storage and logistics facilities with the local grain administration department within 30 working days of the day they commence such activities in accordance with the law. Changes in the scale and utilization of grain and oil storage and logistics facilities should also be filed in a timely manner.”

These provisions dictate that organizations engaged in government reserve storage shall implement record management requirements that include information about themselves, their storage and logistics facilities, and any changes in scale and utilization that may occur. Effectively fulfilling the government’s obligation to safeguard reserve storage and logistics facilities is an important aspect of provincial-level administrative areas’ governors’ food security responsibility systems’ assessments.

Article 12 of China's “Administrative Measures for the Storage of Government Grain Reserves” stipulates: “No sources of pollution or other hazards that threaten the food security of a storage facility should exist within a specified range around a storage area, and no new premises or facilities that negatively affect normal storage shall be established.”

The “specified range” of “sources of pollution and other hazards” refers to the information contained in the “Regulations on the Safe Distance of Sources of Pollution and Other Hazards” section of the “Measures for the Administration of Grain and Oil Storage” document. It states that storage facilities must be located no less than 1,000 m from mines and other facilities with harmful elements, such as coking, oil refining, gas, chemical (producing toxic compounds or byproducts), plastic, rubber processing and production, artificial fibre, paint, and pesticide and fertilizer facilities; no less than 500 m from slaughterhouses, centralized waste dumps, and sewage treatment stations; and no less than 100 m from sources of dust pollution, such as factories that produce brick, tile, concrete and gypsum products.

“No new premise or facilities that negatively affect normal storage shall be established” indicates that no new premises that affect the safe storage of government reserves or threaten the safety of related facilities shall be established in the storage area of the grain storage facility and that new facilities within specified range around the storage facility must not contain the “sources of pollution and other hazards” specified above if a grain storage facility is already standing.

Article 20 of China's “Administrative Measures for the Storage of Government Grain Reserves” states:“ The storage conditions of organizations engaged in reserve storage should support the temperature-controlled storage of government reserves, and have the ability to achieve low temperature or quasi-low temperature storage. Technically, it can be safely stored for an additional year beyond normal storage duration.”

This article covers technical storage capacity. It is not related to the amount of time government grain reserves are stored and associated regulations and is, therefore, not directly connected to rotation cycles based on storage quality and normal storage life. Organizations that store government reserves are required to have sufficient technical capacity to be able to store grain in a temperature-controlled manner that corresponds with the “green grain storage” development direction so that the government can achieve this type of storage and national food security can be guaranteed at a higher level.

Article 3 of China's “Administrative Measures for the Storage of Government Grain Reserves” (“Measures”) states: “The directly affiliated enterprises of China Grain Reserves Group (Sinograin) are specialized in storing central government reserves, and shall not entrust storage facilities or lease storage facilities of other organizations to store central government reserves. The organizations of local government reserves shall be specified by local governments according to the ownership of grain affairs.”

Article 9 of the “Measures” stipulates: “The government reserves storage organizations shall implement classified management. They shall meet the requirements laid out herein. The specific requirements of the local reserve storage organizations shall be formulated by provincial-level food and strategic reserves  departments  based on local conditions.”

The spirit of grain reserve system reform and the standards pertaining to the management of different categories of government reserves should be adhered to. First of all, it is reflected in the classification management of the reserve undertaking organization: the central government reserves are stored by Sinograin and its subsidiaries; The local government's reserve undertaking organization shall be specified by each locality in accordance with the ownership of grain authority. Secondly, it is reflected in the classification management of the storage conditions:

The central government reserve undertaking enterprises shall meet the requirements stipulated in Chapter II of the Measures; The specific requirements of the local government reserve undertaking enterprises are authorized to be formulated by provincial-level food and strategic reserve departments based on local conditions.

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