What is the nature of supply and marketing cooperatives?

On June 365438+1October 3 1 day, Hubei Daily published the report "Hubei grass-roots supply and marketing cooperatives resumed and rebuilt to 1373 covering all towns and villages in the province". After several days of fermentation, it boarded the hot search in Weibo. Misguided by some media who don't know all the truth, many netizens worry that this is going back to the era of "unified purchase and marketing".

That's not true. Supply and marketing cooperatives have always existed in China, and its history can be traced back to/kloc-0 "Anyuan Road Miners' Consumer Cooperative" established in July, 1922. After years of reform, supply and marketing cooperatives are now distributed all over the country. In the current market economy, the grass-roots cooperatives of supply and marketing cooperatives have gradually developed into comprehensive centers with the functions of material circulation, technical services, farmland custody and so on, in addition to ensuring rural material supply and stabilizing prices at the initial stage.

Supply and marketing cooperatives are divided into different levels from the central government to provinces, cities, counties and villages. The supply and marketing cooperative was originally a canteen with green signs in most people's memory, which was mainly based on rural commercial circulation. Later, under the guidance of national policies, a new rural network project was built, and four systems were established, namely, agricultural production materials, modern management network of daily consumer goods, modern purchase and sale network of agricultural and sideline products, and recycling of renewable resources. Later, agricultural socialization services were added, that is, while farmers went out to work, supply and marketing cooperatives worked for farmers, carried out agricultural socialization services, and provided services such as farming, warehousing, drying, sales and land circulation.