Chinanews.com, August 3, in response to the online news about China Grain's Zhaozhou depot "prohibiting foreigners from bringing mobile phones and other audio and video equipment into the reservoir area", China Grain Reserves Heilongjiang Branch issued a release on the evening of August 2 through the official Weibo of China Grain Storage Group The statement stated that, in response to the incident, the company has severely criticized the Zhaozhou library and ordered a correction.
Screenshot of China Grain Reserve Group's official Weibo
The fact sheet pointed out that since the beginning of this year, Heilongjiang Province’s policy-oriented grain auction sales have continued to increase. As of the end of July, the sales volume exceeded 30 million tons, which was twice that of last year. Due to large-scale grain auction transactions and centralized delivery, there are many on-site machinery and equipment during the operation, and frequent vehicles passing through them. In addition, the pick-up personnel are relatively unfamiliar with the warehouse environment. The use of mobile phones and other electronic equipment in the operation area has caused personnel safety hazards. At the same time, in response to the behavior of individual customers in the process of exporting grain sales and affecting public opinion, the Heilongjiang Branch of China Grain Reserves put forward relevant work requirements for strengthening the on-site management of the directly affiliated warehouses during the export period. However, due to insufficient guidance to directly affiliated enterprises and inadequate work considerations, Zhaozhou’s directly affiliated warehouse issued an announcement that simple mechanical regulations prohibit mobile phones from entering the warehouse area, which to a certain extent created the impression of concealing and avoiding grain out of the warehouse.
"We fully understand the reasonable doubts of the public, and deeply reflect on the lessons of the society's concerns about the safety of grain storage due to the simplification of work methods. In response to this incident, our company has severely criticized the Zhaozhou directly-owned library, ordered corrections, and reported to the jurisdiction All directly affiliated companies have made a report, asking to learn lessons, take warning, concentrate on the organization and management of grain outbound operations, and proactively serve grain customers.” The situation statement mentioned.
The statement also pointed out that in order to better accept the supervision of all sectors of society, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of China National Grain Reserves Corporation and the Discipline Inspection Commission of Heilongjiang Branch have announced the telephone number for reporting to the public (Group Company Tel: 010-68776954; Heilongjiang Branch Tel: 0451-87116544), Earnestly accept all reports and complaints.
According to The Paper, following the fact that the Heilongjiang branch of China Grain Reserves has been exposed to the quality of corn reserves by online videos, the Heilongjiang branch of China Grain Reserves has recently asked outsiders to prohibit mobile phones and other video and audio equipment from entering the reservoir area. The online announcement was signed by China Grain Reserves Zhaozhou Depot Co., Ltd., and the release time is July 28, 2020.
In early July, a netizen posted a video saying that there was a quality problem with the corn reserves in the Zhaodong branch of Heilongjiang branch. Subsequently, online video transmission caused widespread concern.
On July 12, the official Weibo of China Grain Reserves Group stated that the investigation team had been quickly dispatched to the local area to conduct investigations.
Two days later, the Weibo clarified that after preliminary verification, there were certain points in the corn reserves in Zhaodong’s direct warehouse that had not been cleaned up in time, but said that the “sieve” would not affect the quality and quality of the whole warehouse. Quantity, if the impurity content exceeds the standard when leaving the warehouse, it will be deducted according to regulations. In addition, there is no such thing as "bubble grain" mentioned in the video. The third-party testing organization showed that the quality indicators of color, odor, moisture, impurities, and imperfect grains were up to standard.