How the agricultural product processing industry can rely on scientific and technological innovation to drive development
Along with the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, China's agricultural product processing industry has entered a critical period of transformation and upgrading, providing a rare historical opportunity for implementing the strategy of innovation-driven development. We must establish the concepts of big agriculture, big resources, big ecology and big food, adhere to the concepts that science and technology are the primary productive forces, talent is the primary resource and innovation is the primary competitiveness, fully recognize the public, foundational and social nature of scientific and technological innovation in the agricultural product processing industry, vigorously implement the strategy of innovation-driven development, and shift the development of the agricultural product processing industry onto a track mainly relying on scientific and technological innovation and talent support.
Scientific and technological innovation bears on industrial security and is the decisive force in the development of the agricultural product processing industry. Only through innovation-driven development can we continuously raise the industrial level and expand into technology research and development and brand building, can we obtain the right to negotiate prices, the right to set rules and the right to claim profits, can we break through international trade tariff barriers, prevent core technology and equipment from being controlled by others, and escape the situation in which some industries are controlled by foreign businesses.
Scientific and technological innovation bears on ecological security and is the inevitable choice for breaking through the resource and environmental constraints on the agricultural product processing industry. Through innovation-driven development, we must "squeeze every last drop" out of agricultural product resources, turn waste into treasure and turn harm into benefit, achieve high-quality resource utilization, clean production processes, ecological industrial chains, recycling and regeneration of waste, and green product consumption, promote the building of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, advance ecological civilization, and achieve sustainable development.
Scientific and technological innovation bears on food security and is the basic support for ensuring the effective supply of processed agricultural products. Through innovation-driven development, we must adopt advanced processing techniques and advanced technical equipment, continuously meet the people's growing needs in both quantity and quality, expand people's consumption areas in space and time, promote the in-depth development of agricultural product processing, broaden food sources, use the functional components of agricultural products, and extract and develop nutritional and health foods needed by the human body, forming a diversified food system that includes subsistence-oriented, flavor-oriented, nutrition-oriented, convenience-oriented and function-oriented types.
Scientific and technological innovation bears on quality and safety and is an important guarantee for building a standards control system for the entire process of agricultural product processing. Through innovation-driven development, we must promote a batch of high and new technologies, promote the development of processing equipment in the direction of new, efficient, energy-saving and environmentally friendly models, promote the development of processing raw material production toward specialization, achieve standardized production, advance the implementation of HACCP standards and ISO9000 family standards in processing, achieve total quality management, create processing brands, and make agricultural products and their processed products "produced" safely, "managed" strictly and "eaten" with confidence.
At present and for some time to come, the building of China's agricultural product processing technology research and development system must earnestly implement the strategies of invigorating the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talent and innovation-driven development, give play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources and better play the guiding role of the government, advance technological innovation and institutional and mechanism innovation, implement and improve support measures, give play to advantages, integrate resources, strengthen collaboration, and build an innovation system for the agricultural product processing industry that organically integrates "industry, universities, research, extension and application," promoting a faster improvement in the capabilities and quality of the workforce, faster breakthroughs in the research and development of key technologies and equipment, faster extension of advanced and applicable technologies, and comprehensively raising the level of technology and equipment in the agricultural product processing industry. We must adhere to science and technology serving economic development, promote the organic combination of "industry, universities, research, extension and application," and simultaneously advance integrated technological innovation and talent cultivation. We must accelerate the building of scientific and technological innovation capacity, improve the standardization system of the agricultural product processing industry, build a number of technology integration bases, increase the demonstration and extension of mature technologies, strengthen the self-development of the research and development system, strive to build a reliable, usable and dependable backbone force for technological innovation, push the building of the agricultural product processing technology research and development system to a new level, and provide strong support and make greater contributions to the sustained and healthy development of China's agricultural product processing industry.