China will continue to improve its grain trading mechanism and reform the country's State-owned grain firms to ensure grain security and protect the legitimate interests of grain growers, Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said in Beijing on Sunday.

Addressing a national conference attended by leading officials of grain bureaux at the central and provincial levels, the vice premier said it is of great significance for the government grain departments to do a good job in maintaining stable and relatively fast economic growth.

China will continue to improve its grain circulation system, step up construction of a grain market system, and improve supervision over grain markets and safeguard grain circulation, said the vice premier.