Where is the rich place of sugarcane?

Guangxi's sugar output 1 1 year ranks first in the country.

Source: People's Daily-South China News Date 2003-07-09

Our reporter Gu Zhongyi

In the development of the western region, how to transform resource advantages into industrial advantages is a common task facing the western region. Only by realizing this transformation can the western region get real development. Guangxi belongs to the western region, and its geographical environment is suitable for planting sugarcane. Twenty years ago, the annual output of sugar was 400,000 tons, but now it is 5.4 million tons, accounting for more than half of the sugar market in China. There is a saying that "Guangxi is sweet in sugar and China is sweet". The development of its sugar industry is a process of constantly transforming resource advantages into market advantages, and has formed relatively mature experience. Exploring and popularizing the experience of developing sugar industry in Guangxi is very beneficial for the western region to understand how to transform resource advantages into industrial advantages. To this end, our reporter wrote a series of comments on Guangxi sugar industry, which have been published one after another since today.

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Guangxi has a great economic impact on the whole country, which is an industry, namely sugar industry. Guangxi's sugar production has been ranked first in China for 1 1 year, and it is the largest sugar-producing country in China regardless of horizontal or vertical ratio.

The sugar industry in Guangxi has a population of more than 10 million, including more than 0/20,000 sugarcane growers and 654.38+10,000 employees. On average, one out of every four people in Guangxi participates in the "sugar army", and the team is huge. The total output of sugar in Guangxi accounted for 53% and 55% of the total output in the previous and current cropping seasons respectively, accounting for half of the total profit of the national sugar industry, and the profit accounted for 96% of the total profit of the national sugar industry.

China has 2 1 province to produce sugar. Before 1992, the sugar industry pattern in China was always the first in Guangdong, the second in Guangxi and the third in Heilongjiang. Starting from 1993, Guangxi ranks first in the country. Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian, Yunnan and other provinces in the south are the main sugar producing areas, and they all have excellent performances in history. Today, the annual output of Guangdong and Yunnan is about 6.5438+0.5 million tons and 6.5438+0.8 million tons respectively, and that of Guangxi is 5 million tons. From prosperity to decline, there are both active and passive reasons.

Located in the Tropic of Cancer, Guangxi is the most suitable area for sugarcane development in the world. Among the areas suitable for planting sugarcane in China, Guangxi has the best planting conditions. The status of sugar industry in Guangxi is very prominent: Party committees and governments at all levels put sugar industry in a prominent position in development, and attach importance to leading bodies, institutions and professionals; Trade, agriculture, finance, poverty alleviation office, transportation, scientific research and other departments give strong support to the development of sugar industry; Farmers actively participate in the development of sugar industry; Sugar enterprises have set up a strong sugar team; We have explored a set of effective policies and measures to develop the sugar industry. Sugar industry has become a pillar industry in Guangxi and a national advantageous producing area. Twenty years ago, Guangxi produced more than 400,000 tons of sugar, and now it has increased by 12 times.

Throughout the past 20 years, the development track of sugar industry in Guangxi is the "leading" and "pushing" of the government, which started in the planned economy period and matured in the improvement of marketization. There are ups and downs in going forward, and there are joys and sorrows. Happiness is self-evident. Worry is nothing more than selling at a low price when there is high income. When selling at a low price, farmers will be given "white bars", and when they get more than a dozen "white bars", they will petition the government. Since the 1999/2000 crop season, the sugar industry in Guangxi has gone well all the way. This harvest season ushered in the biggest harvest year in history, with the total output of sugar reaching more than 5.4 million tons. The market sales are tepid, and the price is stable at more than 2300 yuan/ton. The old market of bumper harvest or big sale did not appear, and the enterprise was still profitable. Sugar-making enterprises paid farmers the payment for sugarcane this season in time, and some even paid some "white bars" left in farmers' hands in previous years, which increased farmers' income. The government's agricultural specialty tax has increased and its finance has been enriched. Farmers, enterprises and the government are all happy, thinking that sugar in Guangxi is sweeter than before this year.

During the planned economy period, the development of sugar industry in Guangxi was based on counties, and almost every sugarcane planting county had sugar factories, with a total of more than 100 in the whole region. At present, Guangxi has set up a 15 enterprise group according to its resource advantages, which has realized the interaction of sugar planting and processing across cities and counties, the two-step processing of crude saccharin and sugar is complementary, the county economy has changed to a regional economy, and the development pattern of sugar industry has undergone major changes. Sugar enterprises are connected to the market at one end and the fields at the other, and their awareness and ability to operate independently are getting stronger and stronger. The chairman of a large group bluntly said that according to the thinking of previous leaders, Guangxi will integrate the sugar industry into one or two state-owned holding groups by administrative means. Today's actual pattern is that 15 large sugar enterprise groups have been established one after another, and state-owned holding enterprises, foreign holding enterprises and private holding enterprises compete for hegemony. The way the government grasps the development of sugar industry is changing, and its will is gradually realized through the market, including both realizing its own will and revising its own will. The chairman further said that the government realized that today's situation is to correct its own will, which is a great progress and truly reflects the government's use of market economy laws to control the development of sugar industry in Guangxi.

In addition, the contradictions that often appear in the production and operation of sugar industry, such as the planting contradiction of sugarcane farmers, the contradiction between "not being able to eat" and "not having enough to eat" when the sugar factory squeezes, and the contradiction of "difficult to sell sugar" after a bumper harvest, have been puzzling the government, enterprises and farmers. They gradually learned to solve these contradictions by means of market economy, and formed a set of effective methods to overcome these contradictions. When solving these contradictions, the two words they use the most are "win-win" and "win-win".

Nowadays, people inside and outside the industry generally agree with the conclusion that sugar in Guangxi is getting sweeter and sweeter because Guangxi people have grasped the "pulse" of sugar industry development ideologically.