There are 75,700 agricultural product processing enterprises above designated size nationwide, and it has already become a sunrise industry
Zhumadian, Sept 7 (China News Service) (Wu Yang, Cao Chunqiang) - Reporters learned from the organizing committee of the currently convening 18th ChinaAgricultural Product Processing Industry Investment and Trade Fair that by the end of 2014, there were 75,700 agricultural product processing enterprises above designated size nationwide, completing main business revenue of 1.848 billion yuan.
According to Zong Jinyao, Director of the Agricultural Product Processing Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, in recent years, the domestic agricultural product processing industry has developed into a sunrise industry with tremendous growth potential, and a large number of large-scale enterprises have rapidly grown and expanded. The development of the agricultural product processing industry has driven agricultural quality improvement and efficiency enhancement as well as farmers' employment and income growth. In aligning with international standards, the agricultural product processing industry has shown some directional trends.
Zong Jinyao pointed out that the Chinese government attaches great importance to the agricultural product processing industry and to international exchange and cooperation in the agricultural product processing industry. China adheres to taking the transformation of the development mode, adjustment and optimization of the structure, and improvement of quality and efficiency as the main line, and takes agricultural quality improvement and efficiency enhancement and farmers' employment and income growth as the goals, promoting the shift from scale expansion to transformation and upgrading, from factor-driven to innovation-driven, and from scattered layout to industrial clusters, paying more attention to institutional innovation, quality and safety, resources and environment, and intensive development, and vigorously advancing the accelerated development of key areas such as primary processing, deep and fine processing, comprehensive utilization, staple food processing, new business forms and new models, technical equipment, leading enterprises, brand strategy, processing parks, and processing industries in main production areas, and actively building support systems for policy support, technological innovation, talent support, public services, and organizational management, so as to create favorable conditions for agricultural product processing enterprises to participate in international economic and technological cooperation and exchange.