What is the main function of supply and marketing cooperatives now?

First, the nature of supply and marketing cooperatives

"Supply and marketing cooperatives are cooperative economic organizations of farmers." "The Central Committee believes that the general idea of deepening the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives is: starting from the needs of rural economic development, the requirements of establishing a socialist market economic system, and the urgent needs of the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives themselves, closely focusing on the goal of truly turning supply and marketing cooperatives into cooperative economic organizations for farmers, grasping five links, such as rationalizing organizational system, strengthening service functions, improving operating mechanism, strengthening supervision and management, and giving protection and support, focusing on grass-roots cooperatives. Take effective policies and measures to make supply and marketing cooperatives truly reflect the nature of farmers' cooperative economic organizations, truly realize the purpose of providing comprehensive services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and truly become a bridge and link to strengthen the close ties between the party and the government and farmers. "

"under the leadership of the party and the government, it is the fundamental goal of deepening the reform and the key to the success of the reform to truly turn the supply and marketing cooperatives into farmers' cooperative economic organizations. To achieve this goal, the most important thing is to achieve three adherences: we must adhere to the nature of collective ownership of supply and marketing cooperatives. We must adhere to the purpose of providing comprehensive services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers. We must adhere to the principle of voluntary, mutually beneficial, democratic and equal cooperation. " "In accordance with the principle of voluntariness, strive for a wider range of peasant masses to join the cooperative, and fully reflect its mass nature." "According to the principle of democracy, straighten out the internal management system of supply and marketing cooperatives." "Leading members are democratically elected, employees are recruited by contract system, major decisions are democratically negotiated, and management is democratically supervised, fully embodying democracy." "Democratic management and supervision shall be implemented to ensure farmers' due rights in the activities of supply and marketing cooperatives." "Supply and marketing cooperatives are farmers' cooperative economic organizations, and they also undertake some economic and social tasks entrusted by the state. In practical work, we must handle the interests between the state and farmers."

"Document No.5 of the Central Committee puts forward that the supply and marketing cooperatives should be turned into cooperative economic organizations of farmers, which points out the direction of the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives. In this regard, we must be firm. But achieving this goal is a long-term process and needs to be gradually promoted. " (The above materials are selected from the documents of the State Council [1995] and [1999] No.5 of the Central Committee) II. Functions of supply and marketing cooperatives

1. "Publicize and implement the principles and policies of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on rural economic work";

2. "Undertake some economic and social tasks entrusted by the state" and "Complete the business and social service tasks entrusted by the state with good quality and quantity";

3. "To undertake the tasks entrusted by the government and exercise some functions authorized by the government";

4. "Organize, coordinate and manage important agricultural means of production and management of agricultural and sideline products as authorized by the government";

5. "To undertake the task of national reserve of important agricultural products and agricultural means of production";

6. "Promote the exchange of materials between urban and rural areas";

7. "To study and formulate the development strategy and planning of the national supply and marketing cooperatives, and guide the development and reform of the national supply and marketing cooperatives";

8. "Coordinate relations with relevant departments, guide the business activities of supply and marketing cooperatives nationwide" and "safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels";

9. "Represent China cooperatives in various activities of the International Cooperative Alliance". (The above materials are all selected from Document No.5 of the State Council [1995] and [1999] of the Central Committee)

III. Work tasks of supply and marketing cooperatives

(1) "Focusing on establishing and improving agricultural socialized service system" and "providing comprehensive services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers"

"Establishing and improving agricultural socialized service system is to promote rural economy. All agriculture-related departments and various rural service organizations should follow the principles of encouraging competition, opposing monopoly, advocating alliance and strengthening services, support each other and cooperate closely. " "As a cooperative economic organization of farmers, the main task of supply and marketing cooperatives is to establish and improve the agricultural socialized service system and do a good job in serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers." "Supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels should give priority to serving agriculture, and all activities should focus on establishing and improving the agricultural socialized service system and doing a good job in serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers." "We must adhere to the purpose of running a cooperative to provide comprehensive services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers." "Supply and marketing cooperatives shoulder the important task of providing systematic social services for rural economy, agricultural production and farmers' lives", "We should further change from a simple buying and selling organization to a comprehensive service organization for rural economy and actively provide comprehensive and serialized economic and technical services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers." "Broaden the service field and enhance the service function for agriculture". "The state encourages supply and marketing cooperatives to develop various forms of socialized services before, during and after agricultural production."

(2) "guide farmers to enter the market in an organized way", "solve the problem of farmers' difficulty in buying and selling"

"deepen the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives and give play to their role in driving farmers to enter the market." "At present, China's agriculture and rural economy are developing towards a socialist market economy", "Hundreds of millions of farmers are in urgent need of strong organization and correct guidance", "The vast number of farmers are in urgent need of providing various economic, technological and information services and joining forces to enter the market, and the state also needs to strengthen guidance and regulation of the rural economy. Supply and marketing cooperatives should play a role and take responsibility in these aspects, "guide farmers to enter the market in an organized way", "do things that one household can't or can't do well, and connect the decentralized operation of thousands of households with the big market", "drive thousands of households to set up agricultural commodity bases and non-staple food bases serving cities in succession", "lead thousands of farmers to the market" and "open up markets, expand operations and solve the problem that farmers are difficult to buy and sell" "The state encourages supply and marketing cooperatives and other agricultural production and operation organizations engaged in the purchase and sale of agricultural products to provide market information, open up circulation channels of agricultural products and serve the sales of agricultural products."

(3) "continuously meet the practical needs of farmers in many aspects of production and life", "promote the development of rural economy and improve farmers' income level"

"Supply and marketing cooperatives are an important force to prosper rural economy". According to the needs of farmers' production and life, we should be anxious about farmers' needs, think about farmers' thoughts and meet farmers' needs, constantly meet farmers' practical needs in many aspects of production and life, make agricultural production more in line with market demand and make farmers get more benefits, and supply and marketing cooperatives should actively do it according to law as long as it is conducive to meeting the needs of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and promote the development of rural economy and the improvement of farmers' income level.

(4) "form a unity of interests with farmers" and "truly become a bridge and link to strengthen the close ties between the party and the government and farmers"

"Supply and marketing cooperatives are cooperative economic organizations of farmers and undertake certain economic and social tasks entrusted by the state. In practical work, we should properly handle the interests between the country and farmers", "closely link the party and the government with farmers" and "truly strengthen the party and the government" "The management mechanism of supply and marketing cooperatives must be based on the principle of not making profits for the members", "forming the same body with the farmers", "enjoying the benefits, bearing the risks" and "linking the benefits and jointly promoting agriculture". "The state guides and supports enterprises, scientific research institutions and other organizations engaged in the production, processing and circulation services of agricultural products, and forms a * * * body of benefits and risks by signing contracts with farmers or farmers' specialized cooperative economic organizations or establishing various enterprises, so as to promote agricultural industrialization and promote agricultural development."

(5) "accelerate the construction of modern business network", "give full play to the advantages in rural circulation"

"attach importance to the role of supply and marketing cooperatives in the circulation of agricultural products and the supply of means of production." "Supply and marketing cooperatives should innovate service methods, extensively carry out joint and cooperative operations, speed up the construction of modern business networks, and provide services for the circulation of agricultural products and the supply of farmers' production and living materials." "We should give full play to our advantages in the field of rural circulation" and "We should actively organize and operate all the goods and services that farmers need." "Vigorously develop the contract system, joint venture system, agency system and profit return system in the purchase and sale of agricultural products, and establish a stable purchase and sale relationship with farmers." "We will extensively carry out the" joint purchase and joint sale "of agricultural products and the" joint purchase and distribution "of industrial products to improve economies of scale." "Vigorously develop the integration of trade, industry and agriculture with processing and sales enterprises as the leading enterprises, and the one-stop operation of production, supply and marketing", "integrate production, processing and sales around the leading industries and backbone products of agricultural production" and "realize the integration of production, supply and marketing, trade, industry and agriculture." "Develop agricultural products processing, storage, transportation and other secondary and tertiary industries, develop professional cooperatives", "actively set up agricultural cooperatives", "do a good job in pre-natal, mid-natal and post-natal services, run village-level comprehensive service stations and crop hospitals, do a good job in the supply of production materials in a timely manner with good quality and quantity, help farmers develop specialized production" and "develop leading enterprises serving agricultural industrialization".

(6) "linking the urban and rural markets" and "promoting the exchange of materials between urban and rural areas"

"Supply and marketing cooperatives should give full play to the advantages of linking the urban and rural markets and make use of the existing urban network facilities to run consumer cooperatives well." "Strive to open up urban and rural markets", "promote urban and rural material exchanges, ensure market supply" and "promote urban and rural economic development". "To actively expand the service field and expand the business scope, as long as it is conducive to meeting the needs of agriculture, rural areas and farmers and prospering the urban and rural economy, supply and marketing cooperatives should actively do it according to law, and relevant departments should give active support." "For decades, the supply and marketing cooperatives have established a huge workforce. Generally speaking, this team is good and has made great efforts and achieved remarkable results in promoting urban and rural economic development."

(7) "opening wider to the outside world" and "developing union and cooperation"

"Supply and marketing cooperatives should promote the opening of cooperatives, develop union and cooperation, improve their operational vitality and market competitiveness", "continuously enhance their awareness of market competition" and "improve their economic benefits and continuously enhance their service strength for agriculture". "The state encourages farmers, farmers' professional cooperative economic organizations, supply and marketing cooperatives, enterprises and institutions to participate in agricultural technology popularization." "We should actively open wider to the outside world, develop foreign economic, trade and technical cooperation, introduce foreign capital, technology and advanced management experience, and constantly increase export to earn foreign exchange. The relevant government departments should give active support to the supply and marketing cooperatives to carry out foreign economic and trade activities and manage them according to law. " "Encourage supply and marketing cooperatives to contract agricultural development projects and poverty alleviation projects to the government."

(The above materials are all selected from documents No.5 [1995] and No.5 [1999] of Central the State Council, No.1 [24] ~ [27] and Agricultural Law of the People's Republic of China. Iv. self-construction of supply and marketing cooperatives

"The Central Committee believes that the general idea of deepening the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives is to proceed from the needs of rural economic development, the requirements of establishing a socialist market economic system, and the urgent needs of the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives themselves, closely focusing on the goal of truly turning supply and marketing cooperatives into cooperative economic organizations of farmers. Grasping the five links of rationalizing organizational system, strengthening service function, perfecting management mechanism, strengthening supervision and management, and giving protection and support, focusing on grass-roots cooperatives, and adopting practical and effective policies and measures to make supply and marketing cooperatives truly reflect the nature of farmers' cooperative economic organizations, truly realize the purpose of providing comprehensive services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and truly become a bridge and link to strengthen the close ties between the party and the government and farmers. "

"due to various reasons, the current supply and marketing cooperatives are not smooth in system, lack of operational vitality, weak concept of serving agriculture, weakened service work, and serious difficulties in grass-roots cooperatives' operation, which has not played its due role. This situation is very incompatible with the development of rural economy and the requirements of farmers, and with the goal of establishing a socialist market economic system. If it is not changed as soon as possible, the supply and marketing cooperatives will be separated from the broad masses of peasants, their nature will change, their functions will shrink and their organizations will die. "

(I) Organizational system of supply and marketing cooperatives

"Supply and marketing cooperatives are divided into grass-roots cooperatives, county and city cooperatives, provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government cooperatives and the National Head Office. The relationship between supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels is a bottom-up economic alliance, and the principle that cooperatives at all levels serve the member cooperatives and grassroots cooperatives is implemented internally. The United Society has the responsibility of guiding, coordinating, supervising and educating and training personnel for its member societies. " "A certain proportion of the operating income of the United Society should be returned to the grass-roots society in order to strengthen the construction of the grass-roots society and enhance its function of serving agriculture."

"Supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels are mass economic organizations that operate independently, are responsible for their own profits and losses, conduct independent accounting, pay taxes according to regulations, and are democratically managed by their members. They have the status of independent legal persons and enjoy the autonomy to independently carry out economic and social activities according to law." "Associations at all levels are financially responsible independently. Except for the policy business tasks entrusted by the state, the higher-level associations do not issue business tasks to the lower-level associations."

(II) Management System of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives

"The supply and marketing cooperatives implement the representative meeting system and set up a board of directors and a board of supervisors. The board of directors and the board of supervisors shall have a certain proportion of members' representatives to participate. Leading members shall be democratically elected, employees shall be recruited by contract system, major decisions shall be made through democratic consultation, and management shall be subject to democratic supervision, which fully embodies democracy. Supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels shall be responsible for the daily work of the board of directors. The main functions of the Council are to provide business guidance to member clubs, coordinate relations with government departments and social organizations, exercise the functions of representatives of the owners of assets at the corresponding level, supervise the maintenance and appreciation of assets of the clubs, and enjoy the owners' rights to benefit from assets, make major decisions and choose managers according to the capital contribution. "

"The councils of supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels are the ownership representatives and managers of the collective property of the cooperatives (including the property of their enterprises and institutions), and have the right to appoint and dismiss the principal responsible persons of their enterprises, the right to examine and approve the major business and investment activities of enterprises, the right to supervise and inspect the business management of enterprises, and the right to benefit from the property, but they do not interfere in the specific business activities of enterprises."

"Supply and marketing cooperatives should establish a board of supervisors, whose members are composed of heads of relevant government economic departments, members' representatives and experts, and combine internal supervision with external supervision. The main functions of the board of supervisors are to supervise and inspect the implementation of the relevant principles and policies of the party and the state, the completion of various economic and social tasks entrusted by the state, and the implementation of resolutions of representative meetings, so as to ensure that supply and marketing cooperatives adhere to the correct direction of running cooperatives and preserve and increase the value of collective property. "

(3) the relationship between supply and marketing cooperatives and farmers' members

"We must adhere to the principle of voluntary, mutual benefit, democracy and equality." "In accordance with the principle of voluntariness, strive for a wider range of peasant masses to join the cooperative, and fully reflect its mass nature. We must adhere to the freedom of farmers to join the society voluntarily and quit the society, and we must never engage in coercive orders. " "We should respect the wishes of farmers, adhere to voluntary association, mutual benefit and reciprocity, implement democratic management and supervision, and ensure farmers' due rights in the activities of supply and marketing cooperatives." "It is necessary to truly reflect the status of the owner in law, system and policy, and protect the rights and interests of the owner."

(IV) Internal management and operation mechanism of supply and marketing cooperatives

"Supply and marketing cooperatives should implement various forms of management responsibility system, constantly enhance market competition awareness, invigorate enterprise management, strengthen enterprise management and improve economic benefits. No matter what kind of economy is implemented,