Academicians in the food industry speak together, the future food industry urgently needs a double upgrade of "software" and "hardware" 

Our reporter Han Songyan

The food industry is a veritable pillar industry of the national economy.

At the recently held 24th China International Food Additives and Ingredients Exhibition and the 30th National Food Additives Production and Application Technology Exhibition, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Chen Junshi, Chen Jian, Sun Baoguo, Zhu Beiwei and hundreds of food industry leaders gathered At the same time, in the food industry academician series of summit forums held at the same time as the exhibition, focusing on the field of big health, fully displaying the latest changes and development trends in the food field, and interpreting the most cutting-edge international academic views and regulatory standards

software upgrade

Focus on nutrition empowerment and regulation improvement

The results of the World Health Organization (WHO) assessment of factors affecting human health show that dietary nutrition factors (13%) play a greater role in health than medical factors (8%), second only to genetic factors (15%)

Ding Gangqiang, director of the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that since the reform and opening up, the dietary structure of Chinese residents has undergone tremendous changes

In this regard, Chen Junshi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and general consultant of the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, said: "The transformation of the food industry is to turn towards nutrition and health

Sun Baoguo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Beijing Technology and Business University, believes that the food industry is a health industry, and satisfying the people's demand for nutritious, healthy and delicious food is the fundamental task of the food industry

Especially after the epidemic, people's attention to health has continued to rise, and functional foods have entered the public eye

Snack food is delicious, diverse in flavor, convenient and easy to eat, and has become an important "fourth meal" for people

In terms of scientific and technological innovation, Sun Baoguo proposed that in the field of food nutrition and health, we should focus on basic research and key technologies in the creation of nutritious and healthy food and integrated innovation in the industrial chain, and systematically study the synergy and health effects of food nutrients and functional factors and their relationship with the human body, interrelationships of the environment

Ding Gangqiang also emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen strategic research and key technology research, including research on technical bottlenecks to increase the effective supply of food, strengthen technological research on intelligent early warning technology, risk assessment, traceability detection and source control for food quality and safety, and continue to strengthen information technology.

The establishment of scientific and systematic food nutritional quality and functional evaluation standards, as well as nutritional and healthy food management regulations, is crucial to the scientific and technological development of the food industry in the new era

Chen Junshi said that food nutrition labels and health claims are important means to improve consumers' nutritional health knowledge and guide consumers to consume scientifically

　　hardware iteration

　　Promote the upgrading of traditional industries to intelligent manufacturing

　　The food industry is a high-tech industry.

　　Chen Jian analyzed that at this stage, China's food equipment and manufacturing processes coexist with mechanization, automation and intelligence

　　Even so, there are still many problems in China's food intelligent manufacturing that have not yet been solved

　　Second, the individuality of food equipment varies greatly, resulting in low production scale efficiency

　　Third, high-end food equipment is highly dependent on foreign countries
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The survey shows that the United States, Japan and the European Union and other food intelligent equipment patents account for more than 80% of the world, China's annual import of food equipment is nearly 30 billion yuan, and 80% of the high-end equipment and key components of the top 100 international food companies and the top 30 domestic companies Depends on imports
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　　Fourth, the low level of overall intelligence in the industry affects the development of food equipment
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The international intelligent manufacturing industry cluster is gradually formed, with low cost and high efficiency
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The domestic food industry has begun to intelligently transform, but it is limited to individual enterprises, lacking a system platform for technology integration, high cost, and difficult to promote and apply
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　　Chen Jian said that in the field of intelligent food manufacturing, the key elements of intelligent equipment have been fully recognized recently, and new models and new formats of shared manufacturing have been cultivated.
Finally, the "big data analysis-digital manufacturing-intelligent perception-human-computer interaction-self-reconfiguration-intelligent diagnosis" cycle system of food equipment will be realized, and the intelligent food manufacturing will be empowered through food intelligent equipment
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　　Zhu Beiwei said that in the next five years, special attention should be paid to the layout of equipment automation, system intelligence and process informatization, which will be widely used in automatic sorting of raw materials, nutritional balance, personalization of taste, prediction of flavor trends, and unmanned factories.
, unmanned kitchens, smart restaurants and other scenarios
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At the same time, China's food manufacturing equipment must break through key technologies such as precise processing, intelligent measurement, and information interconnection, and develop high-end food manufacturing equipment with independent intellectual property rights for high standards and new formats
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Sun Baoguo also proposed that it is necessary to strengthen the integration of new materials, big data, Internet + and other technologies with food processing and manufacturing, break through the common key technologies of green and intelligent that restrict industrial development, and realize the digitalization and informatization of food processing and manufacturing processes.
Food processing and manufacturing level and raw material utilization rate, and establish a precise, intelligent and green food processing and manufacturing system
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　　Especially in the field of food processing intelligent equipment, breakthroughs have been made in food digital design and manufacturing, multi-dimensional in-situ perception, food cleaning manufacturing, food industrial robots, 3D printing, adaptive intelligent and efficient food decomposition, Chinese food intelligent production, and food intelligent supply chain and other equipment key technologies
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Break through the intelligence of key equipment such as sterilization, extraction and separation, drying and freezing, forming and packaging, and traditional food industrialization
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Focus on researching key technical equipment and industrialization demonstrations such as intelligent key processes, robot replacement for key positions, and intelligent control of production processes, build a new manufacturing system for food equipment, and realize key common technologies, important technical equipment and standardization in the food intelligent manufacturing industry.
key breakthrough
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　　"In short, we will build a modern food industry system with Chinese characteristics through technological innovation in the food industry, help the food industry take on new responsibilities and new actions, and form a new development pattern in which domestic and international 'dual circulation' promotes each other, in order to build a 'healthy' China's positive contribution
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General Secretary Xi Jinping issued the 'March' and 'mobilization order' for scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement at the academician conference of the two academies.
Our food industry must strengthen original innovation, lead scientific and technological breakthroughs, and resolutely win the battle of core technologies
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" Zhu Beiwei said
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        "China Food News" (Version 01, June 22, 2021)

(Editor-in-charge: Han Songyan)