On this day, 70 years ago, March 3, 1955 (February 10, 1955, the lunar calendar), there were urgent instructions on quickly arranging grain purchase and sales to calm farmers 'production mood. On November 23, 1953, the State Council officially promulgated the "Order on Implementing Planned Purchase and Planned Sales of Grain" and the "Interim Measures for Grain Market Management." Grain market circulation that lasted for thousands of years was abolished. On March 3, 1955, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Emergency Instructions on Rapidly arranging Grain Purchase and Sales to Stabilize Farmers 'Production Moods", emphasizing that measures must be taken to "fix production, order, and fix sales" for grain. In April 1955, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Instructions on Accelerating the Rectification of Unified Grain Marketing Work" and sent hundreds of thousands of cadres to various places to rectify the unified marketing work. In August 1955, the State Council issued the "Interim Measures for the Unified Purchase and Marketing of Rural Grain", formally implementing the "three-fixed" policy of "fixed production, ordering, and fixed sales"; issued the "Interim Measures for the Quantitative Supply of Grain in Cities and Towns", stipulating that all non-agricultural population will be subject to a graded and quantitative supply of residents 'rations, grain for industrial and commercial use will be subject to a quantitative supply by households, and grain for livestock feed will be subject to a classified and quantitative supply.