A tip of the tongue change in a "Chinese food city"

As the first "China Food City" awarded by the China Food Industry Association, Luohe City, Henan Province has been promoting high-quality development in recent years, building a new ecosystem for the food industry through innovative development, cluster development, and integrated development.

A scene in Luohe City, Henan Province (drone file photo)

Innovation-driven advance to the high end of the value chain

Walking into the exhibition hall of Henan Zhongda Hengyuan Biotechnology Co.

R&D personnel of Henan Zhongda Hengyuan Biotechnology Co.

"We have developed and extracted natural food colorings, natural functional raw materials, natural antioxidants, and health products from agricultural products such as peppers, gardenias, turmeric, and tomatoes

As one of the earliest domestic companies engaged in plant extraction of natural pigments, Zhongda Hengyuan cooperates with well-known universities to establish a national enterprise technology center and has more than 60 independent core invention patents

"We not only add color to life, but also add 'green'

In Luohe, it is not uncommon for specialized and special new enterprises like Zhongda Hengyuan

Xiao Guoqiang, director of Luohe Science and Technology Bureau, introduced that the city has implemented a full coverage of R&D activities of industrial enterprises above designated size.

Green development, safe production

Strengthening the quality of the brand and promoting the transformation and development of the industry

From Weilong spicy strips to the Internet celebrity food konjac with a health label, Weilong Foods has continuously refreshed its "face value" in the more than 10 years since its birth: in 2021, it will pass the hearing of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and sprint the "spicy strips".

On March 15, the staff of Weilong R&D laboratory conducted food testing

Weilong Spicy Tiao is a childhood memory of many young people

"With closed and automated production, Weilong can produce the cleanest spicy strips

Emerging enterprises are not only innovating, but old and famous enterprises are also innovating themselves

Shuanghui series products were taken in the exhibition hall of Shuanghui Industrial Park on March 15

Among Shuanghui's products, there are sausages of various flavors, and different types of braised meat; there are both snack foods and pre-made meat sets.
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In 2015, Shuanghui built a western-style factory with high standards, so that consumers can enjoy pure Ham, sausage, bacon
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"We take strong brand, quality improvement and increment as the starting point to promote the extension of the food industry chain.
Leading enterprises such as Shuanghui and Weilong continue to improve quality and develop new products in the extension chain
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" Lu Liqin, director of Luohe Bureau of Industry and Information Technology Said that the third-phase project of Weilong's industrial park with an investment of 3 billion yuan is under construction, and the production and sales scale will reach 20 billion yuan after it is put into operation
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Industrial integration and expansion of food ecosystem

Luohe Linying County Nanjie Village Group has created the legend of "Beijing" brand instant noodles selling evergreen for more than 30 years
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Today, the upstream and downstream of this "noodle" has gathered into a chain, bringing together industries such as seed research and development, grain production, warehousing, and deep processing
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　　"We use more than 90,000 tons of flour a year, which is specially supplied by a consortium composed of upstream grain farmers, cooperatives, seed companies, and Nanjie Village flour mills to ensure the quality of flour and downstream instant noodles
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" Director of the instant noodle factory of Nanjie Village Group Zhang Taiyu said
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　　Thanks to the integration of the "three chains" of industrial chain, supply chain and value chain, Nanjie Village has built a step-by-step order supply chain from the field to the dining table, and has also formed a fully functional e-commerce and logistics distribution system, which has become a food for Luohe expansion.
A microcosm of the ecosystem
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　　Based on the resource endowment of "Central Plains Granary", Luohe, as a "National Staple Food Industrialization Project Demonstration City", has become an important food research and development base and food processing industry gathering place in the country.
ton, the daily output of casual noodle products is 3,500 tons, and the output of spicy noodle products, meat products, and cold fresh meat ranks first in the country
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On March 15, in the production workshop of Shuanghui Industrial Park, workers worked on the assembly line
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Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hao Yuan

　　"Luohe has formed a whole food industry chain from source to end, from production to R&D, testing, packaging, logistics, e-commerce, and exhibitions, and has become an important support for Henan's super trillion-dollar food industry cluster
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" said Qin Baoqiang, mayor of Luohe City.
, "During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, Luohe will adhere to the integration of 'production, city, chain, garden, people, and culture', focusing on 'food city', 'food +' 'food cloud' and 'food safety' to make efforts simultaneously, Build a comprehensive food industry ecology and build a national first-class and world-influential modern food city
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(Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Ding, Wang Shengzhi and Sun Qingqing)