4月中旬,有关部门宣布,国家决定适度调低棉花收购价格,并将棉花价格由政府统一定价改为政府指导价;4月底,国务院召开的粮食流通体制改革工作会议决定,今年的粮食定购价格由各省级政府参照去年水平自行决定,之后,各地先后出台了粮食定购价与保护价,各地定价高低不一,但无一例外都比去年价格有所调低。 In mid-April, the authorities announced that the state decided to moderately lower the cotton purchase price and change the price of cotton from a government uniform price to a government guide price. At the end of April, the State Council held a meeting on the reform of the grain circulation system and decided that this year’s grain ordering price The provincial governments made their own decisions on the basis of last year’s level of reference. Afterwards, various localities successively issued the purchase price and the protection price of grain, varying in price all over the country but without any exception, the prices were somewhat lower than last year’s prices.