In 2026, the government will continue to strengthen the storage of grain and ensure that farmers can sell their crops at a profitable price.

In 2026, China Grain Reserves Corporation will continue to focus on food procurement work, strengthen various types of reserve procurement coordination, and assist in stabilizing the market, stabilizing expectations, and promoting development; conscientiously implement the responsibility of the main body of the minimum purchase price policy to help ensure that farmers can sell their crops at a fair price. On January 17, China Grain Reserves Corporation held a work conference for 2026 in Beijing. Deng Yi Wu, Chairman of China Grain Reserves Corporation, introduced that the corporation has achieved full coverage of "technical defense and control" for nearly a thousand directly managed warehouses and branch warehouses, with continuously improved efficiency of informatized penetrating supervision. In 2025, China's food production overcame various natural disasters, achieving increased food production and a bumper harvest. China Grain Reserves Corporation coordinated well to increase reserves and rotate purchases, strengthen cross-regional, cross-departmental, and cross-level collaborative linkages, implement "operation on the map," improve dispatching accuracy and farming service levels, effectively promoting market stability, expectations stability, and increasing income for grain farmers. Deng Yi Wu stated that in the next step, China Grain Reserves Corporation should transition from "traditional management" to focusing more on "intelligent governance," emphasizing on innovative reserve management methods, modes, and concepts, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence to promote the intelligent operation of the entire life cycle of grain reserve management, and elevate the level of food reserve security assurance.