Zhu was in power as prime minister from 1998 to 2003. At that time, he had a plan to exempt public grain rations, but because the conditions were not yet mature, it was not implemented until 2006. But the foundation was laid when Zhu was in power.

In 2006, when Wen came to power, the country exempted all agricultural taxes, announcing the end of an era of agricultural taxation and the end of the era of more than 2,300 years of "systematic public grain transfer". The state spends money to buy grain reserves, and farmers do not have to hand over the grain to the state as public food. They can store and buy and sell freely. The era of public grain and "paying public grain" has become a memory and a nostalgia. In memory and nostalgia, we savor and savor the ups and downs of that era.