省人民委员会于五月二十日下午举行第五次委员会议,听取国务院派到湖南来检查粮食工作的工作组的汇报和指示。政协省委会的一部分委员和省人民委员会各办公机构、各工作部门的负责人,均列席会议。国务院第五办公室副主任牛佩琮,代表工作组在会上作了汇报和指示。他首先汇报了团务院工作组本月十二日来省以后在岳阳、湘阴两县部分区、乡进行检查的情况。他们一致感到这些地区,无论是灾区或非灾区,粮食统购统销和生产救灾工作都是有成绩的,是令人满意的。许多农民羣众和基层干部向他们表示了自己对于国家实行粮食统购统销政策竭诚拥护的热情,并且列举了许多生动的事实证明实行这一政策的正确性及其种种好处。例如岳阳县九区,一九五三年春夏荒时,大米黑市牌价高出国家牌价两倍左右,缺粮农民吃了很大的亏。据不完全统计,当时全区卖地的有七百多户。农村中 The Provincial People’s Committee held its fifth committee meeting on the afternoon of May 20 to listen to reports and instructions sent by the State Council to Hunan to inspect the work of the food team. Some members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Provincial Committee and the office organs of provincial people’s committees and heads of various work departments all attended the meeting. Niu Peijie, deputy director of the Fifth Office of the State Council, on behalf of the working group made a presentation and instruction at the meeting. He first reported on the inspection carried out by the working group of the State Council in the districts and townships of Yueyang and Xiangyin counties since the 12th of this month. They all agreed that all these areas, whether they were affected areas or non-affected areas, all achieved achievements in their state procurement, marketing, and disaster relief work and were satisfied. Many peasants and grassroots cadres have expressed their enthusiasm for their dedication in implementing the State Monopoly on Monopoly under the State Monopoly of Migration and have listed many vivid facts to prove the correctness of the implementation of this policy and its benefits. For example, in nine districts of Yueyang County in spring and summer of 1953, the price of black rice in the market was twice as high as that of the state and the deficient farmers ate a great loss. According to incomplete statistics, there were over 700 households selling land in the entire district at that time. In the countryside