As a historically agrarian society, China attaches overwhelming significance to food security.

Despite recent suggestions that it is financially feasible, even more cost-effective, for China to rely more on the international market for grain supplies, the government considers it too risky to abandon self-sufficiency.

As the popular saying goes, "grain in the hand, no panic in the heart". So we come to China Grain Reserves Corporation, or Sinograin, whose mission, according to itself, is to "safeguard national food security".