On September 22nd, 2004, corn futures varieties were listed on Dalian Commodity Exchange, which was the re-launch of corn futures since the rectification of China Futures Market 1998. At present, corn futures are the largest spot agricultural futures in China. In the first half of 2006 alone, 72,725,800 lots were sold, with the amount of 1, 2835438+0 billion yuan, accounting for 2 1% and 32.6% of all agricultural futures transactions in the same period.