Harbin City Relying on Advantageous Resources to Make Food Industry Bigger and Stronger

Our reporter Gao Wei

Standing at the historical node of the "14th Five-Year Plan", Harbin, as an important national commercial grain and green food base, is striving to set sail again, focusing on high-end, intelligent, green and service-oriented, and focusing on industrial revitalization.

The characteristics of the food industry agglomeration area are further revealed

Located in the golden belt of high-quality agricultural products at 45 degrees north latitude, it has more than 30 million mu of high-quality cold black soil arable land, and the grain output has remained above 30 billion kilograms for 7 consecutive years.

The food industry has always been one of the pillar industries in Harbin's industrial economy

Harbin has a number of well-known time-honored enterprises and well-known brands.

Northeast Agricultural University, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin Institute of Technology and other scientific research institutions have strong food research strength and fruitful scientific and technological achievements

Innovative measures to promote cluster development

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Harbin promoted the development and growth of key industrial clusters, focusing on the development of "1+3+3" industrial clusters

Modern grain and oil processing relies on high-quality rice planting, accelerates the concentration of rice processing, improves rice processing technology and brand value

High-quality beverage processing relies on high-quality raw materials such as grain, milk, green fruits and vegetables, and actively develops regional specialty beverages and high-quality alcohol processing

The processing of high-end animal husbandry products relies on modern animal husbandry technology, promotes the industrialized business model of "company + farmers", promotes automation, intelligence and comprehensive utilization of slaughtering and processing, deepens highly specialized division of labor and social cooperation, and realizes the digitalization of high-end agricultural and animal husbandry products.

Build a green food industry cluster with international influence.

Promote deep processing to increase the added value of products, guide enterprises to change from grain export to food export, and accelerate the development of various deep-processed convenience foods, functional foods, snack foods and tourist foods

Enhance the innovation capability of enterprises Relying on innovative resources such as the National Corn Engineering Laboratory of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Provincial Enterprise Technology Center of Gushi Group, the focus is on accelerating the process of corn food industrialization

Expand new sales channels to closely track domestic and foreign food consumption demand and changes, guide and support enterprises to increase new product development efforts, and gradually form new food products with different qualities, different tastes, different specifications, and different packaging, and enrich the market supply

"China Food News" (07 edition on August 13, 2021)

(Editor in charge: Gao Na)