Eric must store a large quantity of
grain instead of consuming all his
grain immediately.
埃里克必须储存大量的粮食，而不是立即把所有的粮食都消耗掉。
The soup would taste better with fewer
grains.
这汤要是少点颗粒，口感会更好。
Corn is Chinese most important
grain.
玉米是中国最重要的谷物。
Earlier this month, the State Grid Dongying branch paid a visit to a grain processing enterprise, where it conducted a comprehensive inspection of the enterprise's production workshops, packaging warehouses and other facilities to ensure power safety.
本月早些时候，国家电网东营分公司走访了一家粮食加工企业，对该企业的生产车间、包装仓库和其他设施进行了全面检查，以确保电力安全。
"We really appreciate the thoughtful service, which has helped guide us in using power more efficiently and has improved the operation and profitability of our business," said the general manager of the grain processing company.
这家粮食加工公司的总经理表示：“我们非常感谢周到的服务，这有助于指导我们更有效地使用电力，并提高了我们业务的运营和盈利能力。”。
Among these agreements, the grain procurement amounts to $547 million, accounting for 51.8 percent of the overall contract amount.
在这些协议中，粮食采购金额为5.47亿美元，占总合同金额的51.8%。
The slogans "Ensure the Chinese people's rice bowl is in their own control" and "Cherish food, cherish every grain" written across the field are particularly eye-catching.
田间地头写着的“确保中国人民的饭碗在自己手中”和“珍惜粮食，珍惜每一粒粮食”的标语格外醒目。
Planted with maize, oats and other crops, the MAP beSide farm has become a demonstration base for high-efficiency water-saving agriculture and comprehensive utilization and improvement of saline-alkali land in the city, said Qin Lilong, general manager of grain crops business unit of Syngenta Group China.
先正达集团中国粮食作物事业部总经理秦立龙表示，MAP beSide农场种植玉米、燕麦等作物，已成为该市高效节水农业和盐碱地综合利用与改良的示范基地。
A total of 37 centrally administered SOEs, including Sinosteel Group Corp Ltd, China Baowu Steel Group Corp, COFCO Corp and China Grain Reserves Group Ltd, conducted 25 professional integration activities in 2022.
2022年，中钢集团、中国宝武钢铁集团、中粮集团、中储粮集团等37家国有企业开展了25场专业整合活动。
COFCO Group, China's largest foodstuff producer and grain trader by sales revenue, has signed over $10 billion worth of purchase contracts with various foreign partners during the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, the company said on Sunday.
中粮集团周日表示，在上海举行的第五届中国国际进口博览会期间，中粮集团与多家外国合作伙伴签署了价值超过100亿美元的采购合同。中粮集团是中国销售收入最大的食品生产商和粮食贸易商。
In addition to importing edible oil, sugar, meat, alcohol and dairy products from overseas markets, the company purchased grain and bulk commodities such as wheat, corn, sorghum and cotton to meet the demand of domestic food processing enterprises.
除了从海外市场进口食用油、食糖、肉类、酒精和乳制品外，该公司还采购了小麦、玉米、高粱和棉花等粮食和大宗商品，以满足国内食品加工企业的需求。
It will introduce high-quality agricultural and grain products with different tastes from more regions around the world into the home market, the Beijing-headquartered State-owned enterprise said in a statement.
这家总部位于北京的国有企业在一份声明中表示，它将把来自世界更多地区的不同口味的优质农产品和粮食产品引入国内市场。
From the perspective of safeguarding the nation's grain security, Mengniu Group will stick to product quality, establish corporate guidelines and build a national brand.
从维护国家粮食安全的角度出发，蒙牛集团将坚持产品质量，树立企业准则，打造民族品牌。
COFCO Group and China Grain Reserves Group Ltd also set up a new company — China Enterprise United Grain Reserve Co Ltd — to manage the country's grain reserves through equity cooperation in mid-August.
中粮集团和中储粮集团有限公司也于8月中旬成立了一家新公司——中企联合储备粮有限公司，通过股权合作管理国家的粮食储备。
By collaborating with the Beijing Runsheng Rural Development Public Welfare Foundation, we provided plant protection products to farmers in Zaoyang, the largest production base of summer grain crops in Hubei province, and invited agricultural technical experts to carry out wheat pest control and drug use training for agricultural technicians and farmers.
通过与北京润生农村发展公益基金会合作，我们为湖北省最大的夏粮作物生产基地枣阳的农民提供植保产品，并邀请农业技术专家为农业技术人员和农民开展小麦病虫害防治和用药培训。
Global seed and crop giant Syngenta Group's selection of Shanghai's Nasdaq-style STAR Market for its proposed mega IPO will likely accelerate the use of the company's technologies in China's agricultural sector and further consolidate the nation's grain security, analysts said on Monday.
分析师周一表示，全球种子和作物巨头先正达集团选择上海纳斯达克式的STAR市场进行其拟议的大型IPO，可能会加速该公司技术在中国农业部门的使用，并进一步巩固国家粮食安全。
"With many countries such as Egypt, Algeria and Indonesia taking measures to import more grains to mitigate the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and prices of many agricultural products soaring this year, the company's planned IPO will strengthen both the company and China as Syngenta will be able to ensure efficiency in farming as well as adequate grain reserves amid a challenging global environment," said Ding Lixin, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing.
“随着埃及、阿尔及利亚和印度尼西亚等许多国家采取措施进口更多粮食以减轻俄乌冲突的影响，以及今年许多农产品价格飙升，先正达计划的首次公开募股将加强公司和中国的实力，因为先正达将能够在充满挑战的全球环境中确保农业效率和充足的粮食储备北京中国农业科学院研究员丁立新说。
Owning 16 listed companies, including nine listed on the Hong Kong bourse, COFCO Corp, the country's largest foodstuff producer and grain trader by sales revenue, has been actively introducing social capital and multiple shareholders to its listed companies to further enhance industrial competitiveness in recent years, the Beijing-based central SOE said in a statement on Wednesday.
总部位于北京的中央国有企业周三在一份声明中表示，中国销售收入最大的食品生产商和粮食贸易商中粮集团拥有16家上市公司，其中包括9家在香港交易所上市的公司，近年来一直在积极向其上市公司引入社会资本和多个股东，以进一步提高行业竞争力。
"There were rice noodles, grain and oil, cooking supplies, vegetables and other items in the box," said Sun's daughter, who currently lives with her.
“盒子里有米粉、粮油、烹饪用品、蔬菜和其他物品，”孙的女儿说，她现在和她住在一起。
It will be significant to increase the country's grain output and ensure its food security, he said.
他说，这将对提高国家粮食产量和确保粮食安全具有重要意义。
SASAC: Business integration key task for SOEs to focus on main operationsChina's largest food processor and trader COFCO and China Grain Reserves Group Ltd will integrate part of their businesses and establish two joint ventures, the nation's top State asset regulator said in a recent release this week.
国资委：业务整合是国有企业聚焦主营业务的关键任务中国最高国有资产监管机构本周在最近的一份新闻稿中表示，中国最大的食品加工和贸易商中粮集团和中储粮集团有限公司将整合部分业务，成立两家合资企业。
Through equity cooperation, the two sides will set up a joint venture that focuses on the grain storage business, with China Grain Reserves Group taking a controlling share.
通过股权合作，双方将成立一家专注于粮食仓储业务的合资公司，由中国储备粮集团控股。
The integration between COFCO and China Grain Reserves Group serves as the first such integration case this year," said Weng Jieming, vice-chairman of SASAC.
中粮集团与中储粮集团的整合是今年第一个这样的整合案例。
"The equity cooperation between the two will help further rationalize the functional positioning and management boundary of grain storage and oil processing businesses of the two companies.
“双方的股权合作将有助于进一步理顺两家公司的粮食储存和石油加工业务的功能定位和管理边界。
The cooperation will also help to build a model benchmark for further reforms, and make contributions to better guarantee the grain reserve security of the country," Weng said.
此次合作也将有助于为进一步改革树立典范，为更好地保障国家粮食储备安全做出贡献。”翁说。
He added the two companies should effectively improve their efficiencies of resource allocation and anti-risk abilities, and provide reliable support to guarantee the stability of the grain and oil supply chain.
他补充说，两家公司应有效提高资源配置效率和抗风险能力，并为保障粮油供应链的稳定提供可靠支持。
When the COVID-19 broke out, the two groups transferred necessities to areas to ensure the stable supply of grain and oil products to residents.
新冠肺炎疫情暴发时，两组人员将生活必需品转移到当地，以确保稳定向居民供应粮食和石油产品。
China Grain Reserves Group, which was founded in 2000, said the current proportion of the central grain reserve at the company is 98 percent of the total.
成立于2000年的中国储备粮集团表示，目前该公司中央储备粮的比例为98%。
The intact rate of grain in its warehouse has remained above 95 percent for many years.
多年来，其仓库中的粮食完好率一直保持在95%以上。
"Based on the functional positioning of the two joint ventures, the grain reserve joint venture will continue to strengthen its management of the central grain reserve, and fully implement the regulatory tasks such as policy grain collection and storage, supervision, sales and transportation," said Deng Yiwu, president of China Grain Reserves Group.
中储粮集团总裁邓颐武表示：“基于两家合资公司的功能定位，中储粮合资公司将继续加强对中央储备粮的管理，全面落实政策性粮食收储、监管、销售和运输等监管任务。”。
China's biggest food processor COFCO was founded in 1949, and the group's grain trade, rice processing, oil processing, deep corn processing, and sugar trade and processing business have continued to consolidate their top positions in the country by the end of 2021.
中国最大的食品加工企业中粮集团成立于1949年，截至2021年底，该集团的粮食贸易、大米加工、油脂加工、玉米深加工以及食糖贸易和加工业务继续巩固其在全国的领先地位。
It aims to accelerate the building of a world-class grain supplier with global competitiveness.
旨在加快建设具有全球竞争力的世界级粮食供应国。
"For a long time, COFCO and China Grain Reserves Group have maintained good cooperation.
“长期以来，中粮集团与中储粮集团保持着良好的合作关系。
They have given full play to the advantages of COFCO's market-oriented means and China Grain Reserves Group's policy means of grain storage.
他们充分发挥了中粮市场化手段和中储粮集团储粮政策手段的优势。
SOEs could establish a standardized governance mechanism and sound incentive and restraint mechanism through the capital market in a bid to improve their operational efficiency, Li said, adding that the restructuring in grain reserves, ports, steel and coal will speed up this year.
李说，国有企业可以通过资本市场建立规范的治理机制和健全的激励约束机制，以提高运营效率。他补充说，今年将加快粮食储备、港口、钢铁和煤炭的重组。
As global agri-food systems are facing multiple challenges and increasingly complex risks such as climate change and natural resource degradation, China Grain Reserves Group Ltd (Sinograin), the country's largest grain storage and transportation company, will import 8.4 million metric tons of soybeans from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, further diversifying the country's soybean import sources.
随着全球农产品系统面临气候变化和自然资源退化等多重挑战和日益复杂的风险，中国最大的粮食储运公司中国粮食储备集团有限公司（中粮集团）将从巴西、阿根廷和乌拉圭进口840万公吨大豆，使该国大豆进口来源进一步多样化。
These contracts were signed with international grain providers including the United States-based Archer-Daniels-Midland Co, Cargill Inc, and France's Louis Dreyfus Co during the fourth CIIE in Shanghai.
这些合同是在上海第四届进博会期间与包括美国Archer-Daniels-Midland Co、Cargill Inc和法国Louis Dreyfus Co在内的国际谷物供应商签订的。
China enlarged its soybean import sources to maintain the country's grain security.
中国扩大大豆进口来源，以维护国家粮食安全。
Harvest setbacks due to severe weather extremes and market supply constraints exacerbated the already low stock-to-use ratios of key grains and led to continued robust grain prices while driving strong demand and growth for Syngenta Group's products and services, the company said.
China Railway 20th Bureau Group Corp, or CR20G, a Xi'an, Shaanxi province-based CRCC unit, has helped farmers in its markets in Mozambique and other African nations achieve stable and high yields by introducing China's practical agricultural technologies, conducting related services and applying modern machinery to assist them in ensuring grain security.
As many countries are building economic development zones and service hubs amid the global fight against the resurgence of COVID-19, building sound infrastructure and agriculture-related projects such as ports, power stations and grain processing plants will help host countries in Africa create jobs and commercial opportunities while also improving people's living standards, said Wei Xiaoquan, a researcher specializing in regional economic development at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.
As the government pledged that it will actively cultivate and in a timely manner establish new centrally administered SOEs in industries such as power transmission and distribution equipment manufacturing, grain reserves and offshore engineering to deepen the country's supply-side structural reform and support innovation-based growth earlier this year, Zhu Yue, China Chengtong's vice-president, said, adding the group has actively participated in the reform of equity diversification to assist the implementation of major reforms of central SOEs.
In addition to securing grain security and tackling environmental issues in the area of agriculture, China has to feed a growing and increasingly wealthy population demanding better and more nutritious food, said Wang Xiaobing, director of the information center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Drawing on the experiences of building national reserve mechanisms for crude oil, cotton and grain, and learning from the international practices on agricultural emergency security systems, it should be a normal, intensive, systematic and digitalized "national agricultural security" system, said Feng Mingwei, vice-president of Syngenta Group China.
In addition to building railroads, schools and water-conservancy projects, CR20G, a subsidiary of State-owned China Railway Construction Corp Ltd, has helped farmers in its markets in Mozambique and other African nations achieve stable and high yields by introducing China's practical agricultural technologies, conducting related services and applying modern machinery to assist them in ensuring grain security.
The grain yield per mu has increased from about 200 kilograms to more than 400 kg.
Apart from securing grain security and tackling environmental issues in the area of agriculture, China has to feed a growing and increasingly wealthy population demanding better and more nutritious food, said Ding Lixin, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing.
Researchers will also study the impact of soil structure, efficiency of agricultural machinery, farmland ecology and grain yield in the next three years.
Corteva Agriscience, a US-based agricultural chemical and seed company, said it would strengthen its efforts in China to help boost agricultural seed breeding sector and maintain national grain security.
Jim Collins, CEO of Corteva, said during the China Development Forum last week that the country has made substantial progress in ensuring grain security.
In 2021, COFCO will focus on the businesses of agriculture and grain production, food production, financial services and real estate, and push forward the implementation of its three-year reform plan, according to Lyu.
Archer Daniels Midland Co, or ADM, a United States-based grain trader and processor, is setting up a raw-food material plant in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, next year to supply raw materials and other products to the Asia-Pacific market, according to a senior executive.
Apart from ensuring grain security and tackling environmental issues in the area of agriculture, China has to feed a growing and increasingly wealthy population who demand better and more nutritious food, he said.
This is the 17th consecutive year in which the document, issued annually by the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, has focused on grain production and rural issues.
China Grain Reserves Group Ltd (Sinograin), the country's largest grain storage and transportation company, pledged to apply more digital technologies and enhance cross-industry cooperation during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period to help ensure national food security, said its top executive.
It now runs the world's largest internet of things network in the global grain storage sector.
The company will continue to carry out standardized and technology-based warehousing management to guarantee the authenticity and high quality of all kinds of grain storage, Deng said.
The Beijing-based group currently operates more than 960 grain, oil and cotton storage facilities, with a combined storage capacity of nearly 100 million metric tons.
Even though emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic have had an impact on the country's economic growth as well as changes in grain supply and demand in certain provinces, Sinograin has actively worked with grain processing companies across China to cumulatively put more than 100 million tons of grain and oil into the market, thus ensuring sufficient and reliable grain supply and helping stabilize food prices.
"Strengthening scientific and technological innovation is an inevitable requirement for us to respond to the new situation of international competition and implementing an innovation-driven development strategy," he said, adding that it is an inevitable requirement for implementing the new national food security strategy, and promoting the transformation and upgrading of the grain industry.
Based on its role in implementing macroeconomic regulatory policy, Sinograin－supported by more than 40,000 employees and 30 subsidiaries－undertakes the tasks of grain and oil procurement, sales, allocation and storage.
Guided by government policies such as the country's first policy document of the year, the company ensures that: farmers can sell their grain at reasonable prices; domestic grain supply meets market demand; grain prices are basically stable, and farmers' economic interests and national grain security are guaranteed.
It also sells central grain and oil reserves that are nearing expiration dates, and purchases grain and oil up to certain quality standards in accordance with government plans each year.
This is the 17th consecutive year in which the document－issued annually by the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council－has focused on grain production and rural issues.
China's summer grain output reached a historic high of 142.8 million tons this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, said the National Bureau of Statistics.
Switzerland-based food and beverage giant Nestle SA said on Thursday that it would invest an additional 400 million yuan ($58.48 million) in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang to enhance its grain cultivation and dairy farming capacities in the country.
"Some of the investment will be used to promote the development of local grain cultivation in Heilongjiang province, with an initial focus on organic grains.
This will be done through the new Nestle Grain Competence Center, Nestle's first such facility worldwide.
COFCO Corp, China's largest foodstuff producer and grain trader by sales revenue, mobilized its global and domestic resources to deliver urgently needed medical, food and other materials on time to ensure people's livelihoods were protected during the outbreak, said Yu Xubo, president of the Beijing-headquartered group.
All parts of the beer brewing process — grain malting, brewing, bottling and canning, packaging design, production, logistics and yeast deep processing — will all be handled within the industrial park in the near future.
COFCO Group, China's leading foodstuff producer and grain trader, will consolidate its partnerships with other centrally-administrated State-owned enterprises to deliver urgently needed materials on time to fight the novel coronavirus, a senior executive said.
Assigned by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, COFCO has partnered with other central SOEs such as China COSCO Shipping Group, China Grain Reserves Group and China National Machinery Industry Corp to transport the goods to Hubei province and other parts of the country.
In addition to increasing the supply of rice, vegetables and edible oil in Hubei province and other parts of China, COFCO Group, China Resources Group and China Grain Reserves Group have also tightened supervision on retailers to prevent speculation.
Since entering the Chinese market, Quaker has grown in popularity to become the leading grain brand in China.
Farm products giant COFCO bolsters BRI economies, in the process ensuring China's grain securityCOFCO Group, China's biggest agricultural products supplier by sales revenue, will continue investing in economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative to ensure grain security for China while bringing shared prosperity to others in the long run.
The center is scheduled to start operations this month and will create up to 400 new jobs across information technology, procurement, human resources and finance, providing unified, professional services to COFCO's international businesses globally, ranging from trade, warehousing, and logistics to processing of grain, oils, cotton and sugar.
Lyu Jun, COFCO's chairman, said the group's next step would be to speed up its expansion in major grain producing regions such as the Americas, Central Asia, and the Black Sea area.
"We will also step up strategic investments in ports, warehouses, logistics, and processing facilities to participate in mutually beneficial international grain production via various means, including agricultural services, storage, transportation and processing, and trade and procurement," he said.
"We will give priority to areas that matter, like China's grain security, as well as increase investment in grain, oil, sugar and cotton to gain more global market share," said Lyu.
Since then, the group has been running a new grain terminal at the Mykolaiv seaport in Ukraine, which is able to transport 2.5 million tons of agricultural products and store 136,000 tons of grain.
Its businesses in China include grain and oilseed supply chain, animal nutrition, animal protein, starches and sweeteners, edible oils solutions, texturizing solutions, structured finance, metals and shipping, beauty and personal care.
Coca-Cola's Asia-Pacific research and development center in Shanghai has in the last two years been a major catalyst in providing tailor-made products for Chinese consumers, including Authentic Tea House, grain based or plant protein beverages, ChunYue Fiber Water, Coke Plus, Sprite Plus, Schweppes Plus C, and Sprite Zero.
China's state grain stockpiler Sinograin said Saturday that it had made breakthrough in inventory reduction last year, with record high sales of 132.73 million metric tons.
Despite solid progress, the volume of the state grain inventory is still high, Deng said, noting that the company would continue to enhance risk control of reserves to safeguard food security.
The term ABCD refers to those four companies that dominate global grain trading, serving as middlemen between farmers and buyers.
China pledged earlier this year that it will intensify efforts to improve the quality of its edible oil and grain products.
The State Grain and Reserves Administration said the new measures can benefit consumers, farmers and the sector as a whole, besides strengthening the ongoing "Healthy China 2030" campaign.
This is a first in the industry, as most such products use milk from cows that are fed with a mix of grain rations and grass.
China Grain Reserves Group Ltd, or Sinograin, signed business contracts and cooperative agreements with six agricultural goods traders, including the United States-based Cargill Inc and France's Louis Dreyfus Co, to import soybeans, at the first China International Import Expo in Shanghai.
China has vowed to further reduce the number of sectors in which foreign investment is restricted from 63 to 48, especially in the service sector, infrastructure, railway passenger transportation, international shipping, grain purchases and wholesale businesses.
Cultivating the saline soil rice could both increase the country's grain yield and help farmers shake off poverty, the newspaper said.
They focus on high-efficiency agriculture, grain seed breeding, new energy vehicles, new and high technologies, finance, marine economy, tourism, special feature towns and reconstruction of shanty towns, according to Yang Sitao, Party secretary and chairman of Hainan State Farms.
He said Hainan State Farms will be given priority in developing the natural rubber, grain seed breeding and modern tropical agriculture industries, making the State Farms group a new growth point of the local economy and national demonstration zone for special feature tropical agriculture.
China's push to further expand production and consumption of bioethanol this year in order to clean up the environment, while seeking more channels to consume corn and grain stockpiles, has created a huge biofuel market that is tempting global chemical companies.
The State Administration of Grain said recently China will expand production and consumption of bioethanol fuel this year, coinciding with the country's decision to gradually phase out production and sales of fossil fuel cars to cut emissions and to reduce pollution and dependency on fossil fuels.
The administration said it would further accelerate the use of grain stockpiles this year and reform grain storage mechanisms to make them more market-oriented.
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed about 618 million tons of grain were produced in 2017, the second-highest output in history.
China is the world's largest alcohol consumer, but imported spirits are not as popular as local white grain liquor (baijiu) in the country.
In stages, it has taken full control of Nidera BV, a Dutch grain trader, and Noble Agri Ltd, the soft commodities business of Noble Group, which gave it access to grain, oilseed and sugar in Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Europe and Australia.
The term "ABCD" refers to the companies that currently dominate global grain trading, namely, ADM Co, Bunge Ltd and Cargill Inc from the United States and the Netherlands-based Louis Dreyfus SAS.
The following year, beer exports to China increased by 500 percent, and Britain began exporting barley to China for the first time after the two countries signed a 100-million-pound deal involving 750,000 tons of the grain being supplied during a five-year period.
And the first stop Monday is COFCO Excel Joy (Tianjin) Co Ltd. China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp (COFCO), the country's biggest food supplier by volume, plans to increase the proportion of State-owned capital involved in agriculture, grain and oil businesses to 80 percent by 2020.
As to the core businesses of grain, oil, sugar and cotton, their market shares are expected to account for more than 15 percent respectively, according to Wan.