Study On Grain And Food Safety And Government's Responsibilities

As a matter concerning national security, grain and food are listed by all states in the world as important strategic materials parallel to energies and freshwaters that influence the planning of national development and people's living standards. At the end of 2003, however, there were 38 countries or areas facing crucial shortage of foods in the world, and amounted to 840 million people were struggling against starvation. Since China holds 1.3 billion population, its' importance exceeds out and away any nation in the world. Since National Day in 2003,the price of grain and food has been swinging up twice in China, which had exposed in full the potential risks and hidden dangers of grain and food safety system in the country.This article try to trace back the situation of grain and food safety in the past 26 years since the reform and opening up policy, and predict probable out comings in 30 years, compare and analyze the government's responsibilities and measures of grain and food safety among the prime states in the world, then explicit minutely theories and reasons of government's responsibilities in grain and food safety, in terms of China government's concrete responsibilities of crisis control and conventional regulation in grain and food safety.This article point out,"Grain and food are typical private goods, but the grain and food safety system as an invisible product belongs to absolute public goods". Since 1990's, China state structure reform in grain and food currency had undergone twinges and turns, resulting an uncertain solution on grain and food as well as their safety system, mistake of cognition leads to teeter of practice. Then,separate the government's responsibility in grain and food safety of the obligation of crisis control and duty from conventional regulate, and define their different stresses and degrees of responsibilities. The government has to fulfill its obligation of crisis control in full, and by means of conventional regulation, conduct and intervene in due course based on market-oriented accommodation.