Source: The Great Wall Network
The agricultural industrialization operation rate has ranked top in Hebei province for 15 consecutive years! The agricultural product processing industry in Qinhuangdao city is developing rapidly. At present, there are 268 key leading agricultural industrialization enterprises above the municipal level, including 56 provincial enterprises and 7 national ones. There are 39 agricultural products processing enterprises with annual sales income of more than 100 million yuan and 8 with more than 1 billion yuan.
Shuanghesheng Ecological Agricultural Products Co., Ltd., located in Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County, boasts automated production equipment of wheat grinding, dough kneading, cutting, leavening and steaming. Workers are not allowed to enter the workshop without strict disinfection, and they wear white gowns, headgear, and water shoes to ensure food safety in the production process.
This company, which was registered and officially put into production in 2013, has an annual production capacity of 35,000 tons, consuming 20,000 tons of raw materials each year, with an annual output value of 300 million yuan. The company’s products are sold well in the market such as Zaiqi sticky bean buns, yellow glutinous rice sweet dumplings, chopped chestnut red date wotou(steamed bread of corn), and chopped chestnut brown sugar and jujube steamed buns, they are all favored by consumers.
The production workshop of Shuanghesheng Ecological Agricultural Products Co., Ltd.
As an agricultural product processing enterprise rooted in Qinglong, Shuanghesheng Ecological Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. actively participates in poverty alleviation, and has established a poverty alleviation team to raise funds, help employment and sell agricultural products. Up to now, they have helped more than 500 people from poverty-stricken households to work, and brought along over 4,600 impoverished households. It was rated as a provincial-level poverty alleviation leading enterprise in 2018.
Zhang Minghui, production manager of Shuanghesheng Ecological Agricultural Products Co., Ltd., said, “We cooperated with Qinhuangdao Port Group in poverty alleviation with the model of “poverty alleviation leading enterprises + assistance units + poverty-stricken villages, and signed a pumpkin planting and purchase agreement with Shimenzi Village, which not only meets our need for raw materials, and has increased the employment opportunities and income of impoverished households. Now we highlight the refined miscellaneous grain products, focusing on the research and development of new products, closely integrating the planting of impoverished households with enterprise development, doing a good job in poverty alleviation, upholding correct road, consolidating product foundation, and increasing market competitiveness.”
Obvious characteristic advantages
Shuanghesheng is just one of the highlights of the agricultural product processing industry in Qinhuangdao City.
Qinhuangdao’s agricultural product processing industry has obvious advantages, there are 20 staple food processing enterprises, including 7 central kitchen enterprises with an output value of more than 100 million yuan. New catering models such as staple food processing, pre-made dish, and instant dish have developed and expanded. Agricultural production, processing industry, and service industry have deeply converged.
Zhengda Foods Enterprise has built the world’s largest unmanned dumpling factory, becoming a food processing enterprise with the largest investment, the most advanced equipment and the highest degree of automation in China and even Asia. It has become the world’s leading “central kitchen”. More than 30 staple food products of miscellaneous grains produced by Shuanghesheng Ecological Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. are the first in China.
The total investment of the Qinjiawei Central Kitchen Project is 120 million yuan, with the annual production of of 80,000 boxes, and an output value of more than 600 million yuan.
In addition, “Changli Wine” is the first national product of geographical indication in the national wine industry. Qinhuangdao has the same latitude, climate, and soil as Bordeaux in France. The grapes here are sweet and the wines are mellow. Since the birth of China’s first bottle of dry red wine in Qinhuangdao City, many famous enterprises have emerged such as the Great Wall Huaxia, Moutai, and Langes, driving the wine grapes planting of more than 60,000 mu across the city, 51 wine processing companies with the annual processing capacity of 210,000 tons, accounting for 26% of the domestic dry wine market.
Qinhuangdao has an annual pig slaughtering capacity of nearly 4 million and an annual output value of 2.5 billion yuan. Funing District is a “National Livestock County” and “National Demonstration Zone for Pig Breeding Standardization”, and has been rated as “National County of Pig Selling” for 13 consecutive years.
Hebei Hongdu Industrial Group Co., Ltd. takes pig slaughter as the core, and strives to build a complete industrial chain integrating pig breeding, slaughtering, pork cutting, cooked food processing, frozen storage, cold chain logistics, and online e-commerce. It has gradually developed into a modern industrial group.
In November 2019, it was recognized by the Agricultural Industrialization Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs as a “National Key Leading Enterprise in Agricultural Industrialization”, and in December 2020, it was recognized as a “National Demonstration Factory for Pig Slaughter Standardization” by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. The output value in 2020 reached 1.5 billion yuan.
Outstanding export advantages
Outstanding export advantages are another highlight of Qinhuangdao’s agricultural product processing industry.
CPPC vermicelli processing production line.
Lulong County is the “Hometown of Sweet Potatoes in China” and one of the best areas producing high-quality sweet potato in China. The CPPC integrates sweet potato planting, concentrated processing, research and development, production and sales of sweet potatoes. Based on the technology of scientific research institutes such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Agricultural University, it has a sweet potato planting base of 50,000 with an annual processing capacity of 100,000 tons, with the one-stop model of planting, processing and selling. It has been recognized as a key leading enterprise in the industrialization of agriculture in Hebei province, and “China's standardized production base for sweet potato vermicelli”.
Qinhuangdao boasts a coastline of 162.7 kilometers, 44 aquatic product processing enterprises with an annual processing capacity of 300,000 tons, a total output value of 5 billion yuan, and export earnings of 250 million US dollars, accounting for more than 80% of Hebei’s total exports. It is the National demonstration base for aquatic product processing, and the largest export processing base in Hebei province, scallops, sea cucumbers, puffer fish, flounder and other specialty products are well-known throughout the country.
The chestnut demonstration base of Baifeng Trading Co., Ltd. in Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County. Photo by Wang Zhenjun/ The Great Wall Network
At present, there are 65 agricultural products processing and export enterprises in Qinhuangdao with the profit of 500 million US dollars, and the export of grain and oil processing industry 200 million U.S. dollars annually, accounting for more than 30% of Hebei’s total agricultural exports, and ranking the first in the province. Vermicelli and selected chestnuts have high reputation in South Korea and Japan.
Agro-processing industry has become the leading industry
After years of rapid development, the agricultural product processing industry has become one of the leading industries in Qinhuangdao City.
Yihai Jiali has started its 100-billion-level grain and oil processing industrial base, the annual output value of Jinhai Grain and Oil Industry Co., Ltd. exceeded 8 billion yuan, and the soy protein separation technology of Jinhai Food Co., Ltd. has been advanced in the world, developing the soybean circular economy model with the world’s longest industrial chain, the most advanced technical level, and the most abundant product categories...
Qinhuangdao Lihua Starch Co., Ltd. mainly uses corn as raw material for deep processing, with a corn processing capacity of 1.35 million tons per year. It can produce 900,000 tons of corn starch, 360,000 tons of glucose, 200,000 tons of maltodextrin, 100,000 tons of sorbitol, 450,000 tons of protein powder and other by-products every year.
The company’s annual output value has reached 3.9 billion yuan, with the annual tax of more than 100 million yuan, and the export profit of over 100 million US dollars for 3consecutive years. It has become one of the largest and most profitable key enterprises in the domestic starch and starch sugar industry. It has achieved an output value of 1.56 billion yuan and ax of 18.2 million yuan since January to April, 2021.
Chicken processing workshop of Qinhuangdao Zhonghong Sanrong Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. Photo by Wang Zhenjun/ The Great Wall Network
Qinhuangdao Zhonghong Sanrong Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. is a key leading enterprise in the whole industry chain and provincial-level agricultural industrialization management, integrating chicken breeding and hatching, feed production, chicken slaughter, and cooked food processing. In 2020, it has slaughtered 24.3 million chickens, produced nearly 60,000 tons of chicken meat, with total sale revenue of 970 million yuan, and total assets of 370 million yuan.
At present, the operating income of the designated-above agricultural product processing industry in Qinhuangdao City accounts for 14.2% of all the designated-above industrial operating income, the output value accounts for 15.9%, including 34 designated-above enterprises in the grain and oil processing industry, with an operating income of 28.58 billion yuan, and an annual processing of 5 million tons of grain and oil, which is 7 times the output of grain and oil crops in Qinhuangdao City. There are 4 enterprises in the chicken processing industry with more than 100 million yuan, an annual processing capacity of 100 million chickens, an output value of 4 billion yuan.
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