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In the evening, the orange sunlight sprinkled on the neatly arranged wheat grains. Deng Haisheng, a 56 year old farmer from northern Shandong, stopped his work of flipping through the sun and discussed with his three-year-old granddaughter, "Let's go home?"

"No," the granddaughter sat on a pile of wheat, focusing on "husking" the wheat grains.

Deng Haisheng and his granddaughter are drying wheat in the courtyard of the New City Community Party and Mass Service Center in Lingcheng District, Dezhou City.

This is the scene that the reporter saw recently when entering the courtyard of the New City Community Party and Mass Service Center in Lingcheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong Province. In addition to Deng Haisheng with his granddaughter, four or five villagers are taking care of their newly harvested wheat in the courtyard. A courtyard of over 2400 square meters has been occupied by wheat grains, leaving only a few narrow paths for passage.

Xincheng Community is a new rural community within the jurisdiction of Zhengjiazhai Town, where most residents grow several acres of grain fields. "During the grain harvest season, the roads within the community became a 'temporary drying ground'. In the first few years, there were not many cars, which was not a problem; later on, life improved and there were more cars, but drying grain became a problem," said Zhang Xiumei, a villager from Dongcai Village in Xincheng Community.

Zhang Xiumei is drying wheat in the courtyard of the Party and Mass Service Center in Xincheng Community, Lingcheng District, Dezhou City.

Now, Zhang Xiumei's problem has a new solution. According to the notice issued by the Organization Department of Lingcheng District Committee on the comprehensive opening of public areas at the township and village levels to support the production of "three summers", starting from June 7th, a total of 1297 public areas in 13 townships, including government courtyards, village level organizational activity venues, and cultural squares, will be fully opened to the public, with priority given to people drying wheat.

Ren Xiaomin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhengjiazhai Town, said that since the 7th, they have communicated the news through the township WeChat official account and village level loudspeaker broadcast, and notified the district secretary and village branch secretary to make every villager know. "Villagers not only bask in wheat in the courtyard, but also take their children with them like Deng Haisheng. They can temporarily take care of their children in the children's playground in the Party and Mass Service Center. Everyone says' things can be done, children can watch '."

Linyi County in Dezhou City has also fully opened 1525 public areas for the public to dry their food. In addition, in Linpan Street, the reporter also saw the "Grain Drying Map" specially drawn by them.

"A map is worth a thousand words. We hope that the map can help farmers in need to go to the hospital nearby and on-site for free drying, so as not to miss the farming season," said Zhang Wanli, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Linpan Street.

On June 13th, farmers sun dried grain in the government courtyard of Linpan Street, Linyi County, Dezhou City.

In the map, there are not only government agencies, convenience service centers, as well as village level party building activity venues and open grain drying places provided by cultural and sports squares, but also seven jurisdictional enterprises such as Lubei Chuanhua Logistics Industrial Park, Momo Furniture, and Xinyu Plastic Weaving that provide free "shared wheat drying fields".

Don't laugh in the field, it's only when you receive it that you can be secure. "The grain grown by small farmers can be dried and stored well, but the grain of our new type of agricultural management entity is different. We also need to rely on 'big guys' such as drying towers and granaries," said Yu Guangyou, Secretary of the Party Branch of Houzhu Village in Huantai County, Zibo City.

Huantai County became the first ton grain county in Jiangbei in the 1990s. In 2020, Yu Guangyou led the party branch of Houzhu Village to establish a cooperative, which uniformly planted and managed over 2000 acres of arable land in the village. Growing more grain brings troubles: if we rely on air drying, we have to spread it for thousands of kilometers. Moreover, the drying time takes about 20 days, and if it rains, it can easily cause losses.

"This year, our cooperative has revitalized 35 acres of idle land and built a grain drying tower with an annual drying capacity of 5000 tons, as well as supporting granaries and drying farms. Finally, we can safely retrieve the grain!" Yu Guangyou said happily. At present, the grain drying equipment is operating at full capacity 24 hours a day and night, providing drying services to cooperatives and surrounding grain growers.

The Party Building Consortium Storage Center in Dukouyi Township, Xiajin County, Dezhou City can provide grain drying and storage services.

In order to improve the post production service level of grain and promote grain conservation and loss reduction, Shandong has built 280 post production service centers, achieving full coverage of major grain producing counties. These grain postpartum service centers will actively carry out the "Five Generations" service with the main content of cleaning, drying, storage, processing, and sales, implement various policies and measures to reduce grain losses and increase income for farmers.

The reporter learned from the Shandong Provincial Grain and Material Reserve Bureau that currently, the purchase of summer grain in Shandong is gradually underway, and it is expected that the purchase volume during this year's centralized purchase period will be about 20 billion kilograms. To this end, Shandong strengthens personnel, funds, warehouse capacity, equipment and other guarantees to ensure that "there are people to collect grain, money to collect grain, warehouses to collect grain, and vehicles to transport grain". At present, the province has prepared to acquire a capital of 34.4 billion yuan, acquire a storage capacity of 24 billion pounds, and establish a credit guarantee fund for grain purchase loans at the provincial, municipal, and county levels with a scale of about 600 million yuan, which can meet the acquisition needs.