Signed! Signed! 2.5 trillion days of large orders!
Who is the greatest salesman of all time?
The answer is: Putin!
As the head of one of the world's few powerful countries, Putin is naturally accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, but he did not expect that a trip to China would make him happy to fly, and when he left the hall, even his expression was difficult to control, and he was extremely excited.
So the question is, why do we have to sign such a super big order at one time?
01. China is not short of food
China is a big agricultural country, although we often humbly say that we are not an agricultural power, and this is not false. After all, when we say this, we are targeting agricultural powerhouses such as the United States, Japan, and Israel, and we are indeed a little worse than them.
Needless to say, on the one hand, the United States has the world's most fertile vast arable land, on the other hand, it also has the world's top biotechnology, the two superimposed BUFF, the United States has become the world's largest grain exporter, the world is unrivaled. Even we import trillions of tons of grain from the United States every year.
Japan and Israel have little arable land, but their agricultural technology is very developed. Needless to say, Israel has always been the target country for us to study agriculture. He built a large number of modern agricultural factories in the desert, and a large number of vegetables and fruits on the European market turned out to be supplied by Israel, dare you believe it?
But we're actually not bad. Hybrid rice, hybrid corn, hybrid wheat, etc., are also very famous all over the world. It's just that because of our large population, we rarely export these grains. As far as our current food stocks are concerned, even if we do not harvest grains for three years, we do not have to worry about going hungry.
02. Why does China buy Russian grain
In recent years, China and Russia have become closer and closer.
Especially after the Russian-Ukrainian war, only China and India are the only countries in the world that can conduct all-round trade with Russia. But the two are completely different, China, as the country with the most complete industrial chain in the world, can provide Russia with everything it needs. India simply cannot do this.
But the problem is, Russia has a huge demand for us, and almost all manufactured goods have to be imported from us. All that can be provided to us is some raw materials and energy. Obviously, the former is worth much more than the latter. So, we have a lot of rubles in our hands.
If there is money, it is not spent, and it is put for nothing.
But Russia's oil and gas and other minerals are almost saturated and transported to our country, and we buy almost everything we can.
So, in the end, we set our sights on Russian grain.
The large grain order signed by China and Russia this time has reached 2.5 trillion rubles, which is equivalent to about 180 billion yuan, which is a super large order for Russia.
Under the grain contract, Russia will supply China with a total of 70 million tons of grains, beans and oilseeds over a 12-year period, which means that Russia will supply China with an average of 5.833 million tons of grain per year in the future.
Russia is a global grain production country, but also a large grain exporter, in 2022, Russia's grain production reached 150.7 million tons, but Russia's population is only 130 million people, food can not only be self-sufficient, but also can be exported in large quantities, in 2022 Russian grain exports reached more than 70 million tons.
Although the mainland is the world's largest grain country, its grain output reached 686.5 million tons in 2022, which is enough for the mainland people to eat. However, the mainland will also import some grain appropriately every year to meet the more diversified needs of the people, and in 2022, China imported a total of 146.87 million tons of grain, of which soybeans accounted for the largest proportion, reaching 91.081 million tons.
After China and Russia sign a large grain order of 70 million tons, Russia will provide China with about 5.83 million tons or more of grain supply every year in the future, and it may continue to increase, which is not only conducive to a new level of Sino-Russian trade, but also conducive to the better development of China and Russia.
03. Balancing the U.S. factor
As we all know, there was a food war between us and Eagle Sauce at the beginning of this century, and the protagonist was soybeans. In the end, we failed.
More importantly, every year we import a lot of soybeans and corn from the United States, the former for oil and feed, the latter for making wine and biodiesel, and so on.
Obviously, although there is no fighting between the two sides, the competition is intensifying. In the future, no one can guarantee that the United States will use soy weapons to contain us.
To avoid a repeat of similar tragedies, importing food crops such as soybeans from Russia has become an important option.
Of course, this deal is definitely a blessing for Russia. But for us, it's just drizzle. After all, we buy hundreds of billions of dollars of American grain every year. Da Mao's economy is already at the end of the crossbow, which explains why Putin is so happy after receiving this big deal. After all, the value of tens of billions of dollars is already a great surprise for him!