The transformation of the private rice shop into the commission agent in 1953 is the first step to establish the Government-controlled Food Supply System in Shanghai.Under the guidelines of maintenance and transformation,the city government has brought the private rice shop into the track of state-controlled by taking measures such as: forbidding businessman to run privately,formulating the conditions of permitted sale and the procedures,taking up the deposits and so on,which have imposed effective insurance to carry out the system of food planned supply smoothly.