Chapter 924 [Crazy buying tide of food and other daily necessities]
Yesterday, the microwave oven was snatched away, and today people started to buy food and began to stock up on a large amount of daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil and salt.
With Blue Star Technology, Luo Sheng from the Coast of the Blue Sky can see the big data information of the whole people, and through payment product payment list and other data information, you can intuitively see what current citizens are buying.
The most food and drinks are sold.
At this time, everyone is most concerned about the big problem of eating. The first thing they think of is the food shortage crisis. Without electricity, life is not easy to live without mobile phones, but they will not be unable to survive.
But once food shortage is a survival problem.
People living in cities are most anxious, and the phenomenon of storing grains has been staged. Rice, salt and other commodities in supermarkets have been emptied, including canned food, instant instant foods that have been stored for a long time are being swept crazily.
I have always wanted to stimulate public consumption but I don’t know what to do. Everyone is unwilling to spend money. Those who want to spend money don’t have enough money, and those who have some money try to save as much as possible to get in need from time to time. The consumption limit for rich people is there, and it is impossible to eat thirty meals a day.
The solar storm was exposed, which greatly stimulated consumption. Those who saved money for emergencies were not stingy at this time.
Consumption has increased instead!
The country actually has an emergency plan in this regard, that is, when the solar storm occurs in advance, how to deal with it, how to avoid negative impacts, and how to use it to play a positive role.
There is no doubt that stimulating consumption is a positive role played by the solar storm.
After being revealed by dozens of scientists from Europe and the United States, the emergency response team immediately launched the emergency plan. All the food essentials stored in the past were opened at this time, and the developed logistics system in the country also quickly started to operate.
A large amount of daily necessities, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, oil, salt and other essential products are delivered quickly to major supermarkets to ensure sufficient supply and ensure that prices will not be driven to a brutal surge in the short-term and stable prices due to the rush to buy.
This is all the result of precautions in advance. At this time, the purpose of opening a "granary" is to stimulate consumption and stimulate rapid economic development, because it is still early before the solar storm arrives.
Now is the time for the whole nation to get into trouble. When the craze is over, everyone will not be so impulsive to spend.
So I saw that the shelves of large supermarkets in some cities were emptied yesterday. Today, they were full again, and today they were emptied again. There was a large amount of supply in the warehouse. When the store closed at night, it would be put on the shelves soon. Tomorrow consumers will find that the shelves are full again.
The advantage of being prevented in advance is that it can effectively utilize the expectations of solar storms to play an active role, and bad things can become good things. Companies get more orders, and the squeezed inventory is also digested. Even if consumers rob, they will not be able to sweep the goods at a much higher value than the actual value of the goods.
For example, if you buy ten bags of rice and save it, as long as you don’t buy it at a price of ten times or at a reasonable market price, it is actually fine, and consumers will not regret it and jump into anger.
When consumption increases, employment increases, and the economy begins to cycle.
So I also saw that the whole people are buying and buying wildly, and the relevant departments have not yet intervened, because the prices of food and daily necessities are very stable, and they are all expected, and the buying wave will fade in a few days.
As for the price of some products, for example, the price of microwave ovens has risen by 80% every day, this is not bad, and it will not affect the stability of the overall situation. Appropriate speculation is the lubricant of the economy. Just like the capital market also needs the existence of hot money. Without hot money market, the market will not be active and a stagnant pool.
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"Master, the video conference is still five minutes away."
Xiaona responded with the voice of reminder, and Luo Sheng also ended the discussion with Qin Weimu on the issue of the financial capital market. This video conference was held by the storm prevention team on food issues and economic stability issues. Luo Sheng mostly listened.
In the private office, after Luo Sheng came in, the big screen had already lit up, and the video images of the participants were successfully connected.
The meeting was held on time.
"The problem of solar storm may not be all bad things. Instead, it has a great promoting effect on the strategy of revitalizing the rural economic strategy. The biggest impact of the storm is the metropolis. Food shortages have to be transported from all over the country and transported daily necessities to the city. The transportation costs will be pushed up, including other costs, including unemployment problems, urban security, etc. will eventually be reflected in the significant increase in the cost of maintaining urban operation."
"The best way to alleviate urban pressure is to divide the population into rural areas across the country to digest it. The impact of solar storms on rural areas is minimal, or even negligible. Rural families can produce and grow food by themselves, and the pace of life will not be significantly affected. At most, there are fewer entertainment activities."
"Cities are very different. The concentration of people, factories are shut down, and large-scale water and power outages have brought huge troubles to daily life. Fortunately, the city is very mobile, and many people have a hometown. At this time, we should encourage everyone to return to their hometown to develop, which can not only revitalize the rural economy, but also alleviate the cost of urban operations. Not to mention, if the urban population drops, the transportation costs of grain transportation supply can be greatly reduced."
The video conference has begun. The speaker is Yu Zhengping, a heavyweight scholar, a leading figure in the field of local culture and economics, and is also a research scholar who knows the best in rural economy and culture across the country.
Luo Sheng is basically playing the role of a participant now, and is more of an insider to listen to it. This area is not his main responsibility, but Luo Sheng obviously also plays a key role in the defense plan of the entire solar storm.
At this time, another participant said: "It is impossible to move the population in the metropolis to rural areas across the country. The key is to let everyone see the opportunity to develop in the countryside, so that everyone will spontaneously return home."
Yu Zhengping nodded in agreement and spoke again: "There are many factors that hinder the development of rural economy now. For example, the current social trend is to make you leave your hometown. Your parents work hard to support you in college to leave your hometown and gain a foothold in the city. Now everyone makes money, farming and producing grain, and it makes the least profitable, and it may even be negative. Going back to the village to develop will be considered unpromising. If you say that your parents will get angry and have high blood pressure when you develop in the village."
As he said that, Yu Zhengping spread his hands helplessly and laughed at himself. Everyone present also smiled softly. Yu Zhengping continued: "We cannot start food security alone. We must take comprehensive measures. In the past, although our productivity level is not high for a long time, we rely on organizational capabilities and a complete system to ensure food security."
"Once major rural areas receive the influx of urban population, they must confirm the responsible party for food security, and ensure localized food security at least to ensure the basic food security of their own villages. Basic food and drinking problems can be solved without relying on external procurement."
"That is to say, the real storing of grain in the village will not lead to catastrophic consequences of major food security. If a natural disaster or a major accident occurs, we will wait for the state to adjust the grain. What if the disaster is a little bigger? What if the road is blocked and blocked, it is impossible to send it? People waiting for food to be fed there. This kind of thing can no longer be said to happen at any time. The time for the solar storm is approaching."
Everyone nodded silently, Yu Zhengping finally added: "One is to mobilize the city's public to participate in agriculture. Society needs to work hard. At present, citizens in major cities are rushing to buy daily necessities, which shows that they have this awareness of food security crisis. If this is the case, why not prepare in advance? Why not keep a certain amount of food stored at home?"
"If you prepare in advance, you won't be cramming at the moment. If you spend money on rushing to buy, you may not be able to buy it. This time, the shortage of goods has caused a series of negative factors. If the country had not been prepared in advance, I would not have dared to imagine how much the prices would soar. Ordinary people spend more than ten times the usual price to buy a bag of salt and a bag of rice. The harm to the economy and the intensification of the gap between the rich and the poor will be immeasurable."
Luo Sheng, who said nothing, scratched the back of his neck silently, as if he was the richest hot person present.
The core idea of today's meeting is how to solve the impact of the solar storm on the metropolis when it comes. You must know that if a metropolis is cut off from water and electricity for a week, not to mention anything else, the paralysis of a sewage discharge system alone will make the entire city smell bad. The population concentration of a big city is always millions, tens of millions or even tens of millions.
The solution proposed to deal with solar storms now is to reduce the size of the urban population. So where can these people who leave the city go? The place where they can accept them is their hometown, and they are branches in rural areas across the country.
But the problem is that since there are not many development opportunities in rural areas, it is precisely because of this that everyone is desperately trying to squeeze into big cities.
Therefore, the core essence of the problem is to give rural areas a future of development, so that people can be attracted, especially young people who return to their hometowns to take root. Naturally, the population will flow back from big cities, thereby solving the operating costs of big cities and saving the overall operating costs of society.
When the solar storm comes, it is not worth fearing. Instead, the whole nation can calmly look up at the starry sky and see a beautiful aurora that is rare in a thousand years.
Chapter completed!