Salt national franchise system will break ice

According to informed sources, the monthly basic salary of ordinary employees of salt industry companies is only five or six hundred dollars. Other income is earned by tying other goods, and only when the task is completed can the full wages be paid.

Ding Yang, the director of the marketing department of Xiangfan Salt Industry Company, did not deny that salt companies are providing laundry products, liquor and other daily necessities. On the business card that he handed over, he printed his post on the front and printed the business project on the back, including the words "Management of the Qiqiang Daily Chemical Series".

"We started to explore the use of existing sales networks for some other products since June. The daily necessities are operating entirely in accordance with the marketization. Customers do or don't want to, and we don't force them to do so. The main thing is to let employees learn through agency services. Customers communicate and exercise the team,” said Ding Yang.

Some dealers have questioned that the salt industry companies rely on their daily necessities to sell their salt and their monopoly. In this regard, Ding Yang said, "We have set up a non-salt department specializing in non-salt product agents. This department is separated from salt. The identity of non-salt department agents is an ordinary marketer, who sells exactly according to the market economy. law."

According to Ding Yang's introduction, Xiangfan City Salt Industry Co., Ltd. is currently the main agent of daily necessities of detergent and rice wine, "everyone wants to eat, the company requires survival and development, ah, the country is brewing edible salt market to open up, in the future we face a lot Challenges must be transformed in advance."

According to a survey by the reporter, some salt companies in Hubei Province are also exploring similar "transformation." In June of this year, Wuchang Salt Branch negotiated with “Vigor 28” detergent manufacturer and Dao Hua Xiang Group to return 1,200 pieces of “Vibrant 28” detergent and 1,600 pieces of rice wine, which was priced at 28 yuan/bottle, and handed it to Qingshan Company. Hejinggang has two sales offices and the Castle Peak Sales Office and its secondary wholesale outlets sell laundry detergent and liquor by “forced tying” with ordinary iodized salt. Chen Bangyong, manager of Wuchang Salt Industry Branch, said in an interview that the agent washing powder and liquor are "in order to deal with China's salt industry reform."

Since China’s Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the salt industry has implemented state-owned monopoly operations. In 1996, the State Council issued the "Special Measures on Salt" and also specified the national franchise system for salt.

However, in the past two years, the signs of reform have become increasingly apparent. In 2009, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly announced the "Several Opinions on Promoting the Reform of the Salt Industry System (Draft for Soliciting Opinions)" and proposed that from 2010, two-year transitional period should be implemented to implement the salt industry reform throughout the country. On May 27, 2010, the State Council approved and issued the “Opinions on the Key Work of Deepening the Economic System Reform in 2010” and proposed: “Promote the reform of the salt industry management system, issue opinions on the reform of the salt industry management system and related supporting measures, and promote the formation of New salt supply system and salt industry management system".

He Hairen, an associate researcher at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who has been engaged in research on the reform of the salt industry system, said that “the franchise will certainly break. I am optimistic about this. Not optimistic, the disguised franchise will exist. Although it is apparently let go, State-owned enterprises can purchase salt fields in large quantities. Other companies do not have such strength."

Chen Guowei, supervisor of the Supervisory Board of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, also stated at a seminar held at the end of 2009 that “the reform of China’s salt industry franchise should be accelerated and the state-owned enterprises’ monopoly operations must be resolved”.

All indications indicate that the eradication of monopoly is the trend of the times. The speech made by the general manager of China National Salt Company at the National Salt Planning Conference held in November 2009 stated that “the maintenance should be done when the franchise is not released, and preparations must be made for release”.