Analysis on Stability Factors of Grain Price in China

To make grain price stable is an important goal for the Chinese government. The paper compared the grain supply elasticity and demand elasticity to determine the grain price stability in China; used “k value” method to analyze the grain price fluctuation from 1985 to 2010; divided the grain price volatility into three stages; and analyzed the factors in each phase. On the base, it put forward some countermeasures to guarantee the stability of the grain price.