China Foresees Bumper Grain Harvest This Year

China can expect a record-high grain output of 525 billion kilograms this year, sustaining a rising grain harvest momentum for five straight years.

Deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, Du Ying, says that an increasing grain output helps reinforce people's confidence in China's economy.

Since the market grain price is lower than the government's purchase price, farmers in major agricultural areas like Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces in China's northeast have chosen to sell their crops for state grain reserve.

Zhao Yukuo is a worker on the Nong Jiang Farm in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

"The government's price is ten cents higher than the market price. My annual food output is more than 300 tons, so I can earn over 60,000 yuan more than before.It's a considerable amount of money for me."