Guiding opinions of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other eleven departments on cultivating traditional superior food producing areas and local characteristic food industries

Departments in charge of industry and informatization, development and reform, science and technology, finance, ecological environment, transportation, agriculture and rural areas, commerce, culture and tourism, market supervision and banking supervision of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:

Traditional superior food producing areas and local characteristic food industries are important development carriers and key growth engines of China’s food industry. In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, implement the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Outline of the Long-term Goals for 2035, accelerate the development of traditional superior food producing areas and local specialty food industries, foster the formation of new kinetic energy for economic development, and help rural revitalization and common prosperity, this guidance is formulated.　

Guided by the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era, we will fully implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, adhere to the general tone of striving for progress while maintaining stability, implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, adhere to the people-centered development idea, carry out in-depth supply-side structural reforms, fully release the industrial development potential and promote comprehensive rural revitalization and common prosperity based on regional resource endowments and unique food culture.

According to local conditions, highlight the characteristics. Dig deep into the superior resources in various places, clarify the development direction and cultivation priority, build a food industry system with regional characteristics, and form a diversified and differentiated industrial competition pattern.

Market-led, overall promotion. Optimize the development environment of traditional superior food producing areas and local characteristic food industries, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, and help enterprises and industries grow and develop.

Leading by producing areas, gathering and developing. Guide the traditional superior food producing areas to further exert the agglomeration effect, strengthen the construction of public service platform, promote the creation and promotion of regional brands, and promote the development of large, medium and small enterprises.

Ensure safety and serve the people. Strengthen the main responsibility of quality and safety of food enterprises, improve the quality and safety risk management and control ability of the whole industry chain, and ensure the "safety on the tip of the tongue" while meeting the diverse food consumption needs of the people.

By 2025, the scale of traditional superior food producing areas will continue to grow, the geographical coverage will be further expanded, the quality and efficiency of local specialty food industry will continue to improve, the supply chain support capacity will be significantly improved, the integration level of primary, secondary and tertiary industries will continue to be optimized, and the modernization level of industrial chain will be greatly improved. The development pattern of local specialty food with "10 billion leading enterprises, 100 billion clusters and 1 trillion industries" will basically take shape. Cultivate more than five traditional superior food producing areas with annual revenue exceeding 100 billion yuan, and more than 25 leading enterprises with annual revenue exceeding 10 billion yuan, and create a number of well-known national brands of local specialty food products and typical cases of industrialization of local specialty snacks.

Strengthen the protection and utilization of raw material varieties of high-quality edible agricultural products, strengthen the expansion and breeding of special and rare agricultural products, and provide strong support for the development of local specialty food industry. Strengthen the cultivation of varieties of raw materials suitable for processing, support universities, scientific research institutes and seed enterprises to vigorously carry out the introduction, testing, evaluation and innovative utilization of special varieties of processing resources around the development needs of local food industry, optimize the quality and processing performance of raw materials, and expand the scope of application.

Encourage enterprises to focus on the advantage areas of China’s characteristic agricultural products and tilt to the border areas appropriately, establish a long-term and stable supply base for agricultural raw materials, and develop large-scale breeding. Carry out investigation and monitoring of agricultural non-point source pollution, implement measures to prevent and control agricultural non-point source pollution, standardize the use of agricultural inputs such as agricultural and veterinary drugs, fertilizers and feeds, promote the recycling of agricultural wastes, strictly control the source of heavy metal pollution such as cadmium in soil, and protect the ecological environment. Encourage the declaration to create a national organic food production base.

Encourage local specialty food production enterprises to form a stable cooperative relationship with farmers’ professional cooperatives, family farms and other new agricultural business entities in the form of order farming, or establish a variety of cooperation modes such as contract, dividend and equity with farmers of agricultural raw materials, organize specialized institutions or professionals to carry out targeted technical guidance on breeding, form a long-term and stable source of high-quality raw materials supply, and let farmers share the value-added benefits of the whole industry chain.

?#xa0; (B) to promote the construction of characteristic industrial clusters

Support governments at all levels to base themselves on local characteristic food industry resources, strengthen high-level planning and layout, guide enterprises to concentrate in traditional superior food producing areas, and amplify the industrial cluster effect. Aiming at the upstream and downstream supporting requirements of the industry, we will introduce enterprises such as agricultural product pretreatment, cold chain logistics, packaging and printing, and e-commerce to promote the optimization and upgrading of production factors and form a number of competitive advanced manufacturing clusters.

Encourage local specialty food leading enterprises to play the role of the main engine of the industrial chain, strengthen scientific and technological innovation, vigorously carry out brand and channel construction, give play to the collective radiation effect, drive the development of upstream and downstream small and medium-sized enterprises, and improve the efficiency of resource allocation. Strengthen the cultivation of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of local specialty foods, guide all kinds of growth enterprises to deepen market segments, strengthen division of labor and cooperation, enlarge and strengthen products and brands in professional fields, and create a good industrial ecology for the development of large, medium and small enterprises.

Support traditional superior food producing areas to build characteristic leading product trading centers and wholesale markets, and encourage the establishment of intermediary organizations such as industry associations and industry alliances to expand the influence of local specialty foods. Strengthen the construction of a public service platform integrating process technology research and development, testing and certification, and personnel training, improve the infrastructure such as power supply, water supply, gas supply, solid waste and sewage treatment in producing areas, and support the high-quality development of traditional advantageous producing areas. Strengthen the construction of cold chain logistics facilities for agricultural products such as pre-cooling, storage and preservation, and fill in the shortcomings of "the first mile" of food raw materials.

With the help of national key R&D plans and other scientific and technological resources, we will carry out research on the mechanism of nutritional components, physiological functions and component structure changes in local specialty foods, and accelerate the research and development of common key technologies such as nutritional targeting design, flavor quality modification, efficient extraction and separation of functional components, and adaptive transformation of processing technology. Strengthen the popularization and application of practical technologies such as ultra-fine grinding, rapid enzyme inactivation, energy-saving quick freezing and modified atmosphere preservation. Deeply practice the "big food concept" and increase the development of new food resources.

促进全自动高速无菌灌装、智能温控蒸煮、数控高密度发酵、微波灭菌、超高压非热杀菌等现代食品加工工艺装备推广应用。整合地方特色食品企业、装备制造企业和科研院所力量，构建关键技术装备创新应用联合体，逐步提升重要装备供给能力。支持企业大力开展技术改造，积极应用首台（套）重大技术装备等，不断提升工艺装备水平。

3. Promotion and application of industrial design

Give full play to the role of industrial design in empowering the local specialty food industry, accelerate the penetration into product research and development, processing and manufacturing, design and other aspects, promote the deep integration of product design with Chinese traditional craft culture, and effectively enhance the added value, competitiveness and brand influence of products. In-depth implementation of the relevant standards and requirements to limit excessive packaging of goods, and practice the concept of simple, moderate and green development of food packaging design.

Support local specialty food production enterprises to establish and improve the food safety management system, equip with food safety management personnel, strictly manage suppliers, check incoming goods, control production process, and conduct factory inspection, and regularly carry out food safety self-inspection. Encourage enterprises to meet the requirements of good production practices, implement GB/T 19000 series quality management system, ISO22000 food safety management system, hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) system certification, strengthen the training of advanced quality management standards, and establish a whole chain quality and safety risk prevention system. Encourage enterprises to implement the national standard of credit management system and establish the whole life cycle traceability system of local specialty foods.

Encourage local specialty food enterprises to strengthen the application of quality and safety control technologies, instruments and equipment such as raw material pretreatment, processing and manufacturing, packaging and sterilization, accurate identification and elimination of foreign bodies, and automatic quality perception, so as to improve the ability and level of inspection and quality and safety risk prevention. Encourage the establishment of local specialty food manufacturing innovation centers, national industrial measurement and testing centers, national market supervision key laboratories and technological innovation centers.

Establish a whole-process supervision system from the breeding, production and processing of agricultural raw materials to circulation and consumption. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of local specialty food production enterprises, urge enterprises to strictly implement the main responsibility of food safety, and prevent food safety risks such as raw material pollution. Strengthen daily supervision and sampling monitoring, and intensify supervision and rectification of enterprises whose quality and safety are not up to standard. Strengthen the food safety emergency response capacity of traditional superior food producing areas, improve the emergency response mechanism, and establish and improve the product quality and food safety information release system.

Promote the innovation and development of time-honored brands in the food field, promote the integration of intangible cultural heritage, historical culture, festival culture, folk culture and other elements into local specialty food brands, and encourage enterprises to reasonably combine Chinese traditional food production techniques with modern food production technologies. Excavate the historical origin of local specialty foods, tell the stories of local specialty foods well and show the unique "taste" of local specialty foods by means of short videos, micro-movies, series of books, museums and archives construction.

Support the registration of collective trademarks in traditional superior food producing areas, accelerate the cultivation of regional public brands, guide enterprises in producing areas to actively use them, and enhance the brand image of producing areas. Encourage local specialty food production enterprises to develop green, organic and geographical indication agricultural products, implement the certificate system for edible agricultural products, and enhance brand influence. Encourage traditional superior food producing areas to establish professional service institutions for brand operation, strengthen the publicity of brand cultivation management system standards, improve the brand value evaluation system, and provide strong support for local specialty food brand building.

Encourage traditional superior food producing areas to hold professional exhibitions, expositions and trade fairs of local specialty foods, promote featured leading products through design competitions, tasting meetings and other forms, and enhance brand influence and reputation. Guide local specialty food manufacturers to participate in activities such as "China Brand Day", "Intangible Shopping Festival", "Eating Goods Festival", "National Tour" and "Entering Famous Stores", and intensify publicity and promotion. Support local specialty foods to explore the international market.

1.α Green, Low Carbon and Safe Development

Support local specialty food production enterprises to create green factories, accelerate the application of water-saving, energy-saving and grain-saving processing technology and equipment, promote the application of clean and efficient manufacturing technology, and improve the processing conversion rate. Encourage the development of circular economy in traditional superior food producing areas, strengthen the secondary development of processing by-products such as fruit and vegetable skin residue, grain and oil bran meal and animal bone blood, and improve the comprehensive utilization level of resources. Strengthen the prevention and control of air, water, soil and solid waste (white garbage) pollution to ensure the safety of ecological environment and food. Strictly implement the main responsibility of enterprise safety production and improve the level of intrinsic safety.

2. Digitalization and intelligence level

Promote the deep integration of modern information technologies such as 5G, industrial internet and big data with the whole industrial chain of local specialty foods, and promote the digital development of raw material collection, production and processing, warehousing and logistics. Promote digital R&D design, promote process reengineering, forge a number of digital workshops, 5G fully connected factories and intelligent factories, realize flexible production and intelligent manufacturing, accelerate product iterative updating, and improve the adaptability between supply and demand.

Support enterprises to consolidate cooperation with traditional channels such as supermarkets, convenience stores and community fresh food, strengthen the production and marketing docking with large-scale e-commerce platforms, deepen the omni-channel layout of production, circulation, sales and service, and realize the deep integration of online and offline diversified formats. Scientifically build a digital prediction model of local specialty food consumption demand, analyze consumption preferences in different regions and future consumption trends, and guide the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to rationally allocate R&D, manufacturing and marketing resources to better meet the consumption demand of local specialty food.

Encourage traditional superior food producing areas to expand the industrial chain of local specialty foods, strengthen the deep integration of upstream and downstream, and cultivate innovative formats and models. Combined with the breeding base of characteristic agricultural products raw materials, we will develop shared farms, farming experiences, village houses and other formats. We should tap the functions of health, leisure and sightseeing, ecological protection and cultural inheritance of local specialty foods, and guide the integration and development of local specialty food industries with health care, tourism, popular science and entertainment industries. Accelerate the development of local specialty food prefabrication, promote the combination of traditional food production technology and modern food production technology, and launch a number of industrialized products such as Chinese cuisine and local snacks.

Actively create a local food consumption scene that integrates food tasting, cultural creativity, community communication and other functions, and provide diversified consumption experiences such as immersion, experience and interaction. Actively embed the consumption elements of local special foods into consumption scenes and carriers such as night economy, special catering gathering areas and large-scale commercial complexes, so as to widely gather popularity and promote the consumption of local special foods.

Establish a three-level collaborative working mechanism among the Ministry, provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and cities, strengthen the linkage between the central and local governments, and carry out in-depth cultivation of traditional superior food producing areas and local specialty food industries. Establish an inter-ministerial coordination mechanism to jointly promote industrial development. Encourage all localities to take the development of local specialty food industry as an important measure to promote comprehensive rural revitalization and common prosperity, and strengthen systematic planning and supervision and implementation.

Make full use of existing capital channels to support the technological upgrading, processing equipment transformation and digital transformation of local specialty food production enterprises. Give full play to the role of national production integration as a platform, and guide financial institutions to provide assistance for the development of local specialty food production enterprises. Encourage market-oriented funds to increase support for technological innovation and weak links in the field of local specialty foods. We will steadily push forward the pilot project of verification and deduction of input tax of value-added tax on agricultural products.

充分发挥科研院所、标准化技术组织的专业优势，开展特色食品领域国家标准和行业标准制修订工作。鼓励社会团体和企业制定高于推荐性国家标准和行业标准相关技术要求的团体标准和企业标准。支持地方特色食品生产企业参与国际标准制定与转化。

?#xa0; 完善地方特色食品产业人才培养体系，借助高校、科研院所等资源，培养产业发展亟需的专业人才。结合地方特色食品生产工艺流程特点，开展继续教育和职业培训，形成具有丰富实践经验的高素质技能型人才队伍。鼓励企业与高校联合开展企业家研修培训，培育具备研发设计、生产制造、市场营销等多方面能力的现代企业管理人才。

 

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2023年3月16日