Recently, the “Outline for the Development of the Green Food Industry in Heilongjiang Province” formulated by the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province was officially promulgated and implemented. The Outline discusses the foundation, advantages, and development potential of Heilongjiang Province's green industry, as well as the layout and development priorities of the industry. In particular, it formulates eight major promotion measures. The measures are appropriate and unprecedented in intensity nationwide, setting a demonstration for promoting the development of organic and green industries across the country and providing a reference for all regions nationwide, especially county-level organic product certification demonstration zones. The Outline proposes that the green food industry is the industry with the best growth potential and the greatest development potential among Heilongjiang Province's "ten key industries." It is estimated that by 2015, the output value of Heilongjiang Province's food industry can reach about 550 billion yuan, and the added value of Heilongjiang Province's food industry is expected to reach about 120 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of more than 20%, and its share of the national food industry's added value increasing from 3% to more than 4%.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Hold a “Green Expo” in Harbin once a year.”文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
The Outline stipulates that starting in 2013, using a market-oriented approach, the provincial government will hold a “Heilongjiang Province Green Food Industry Expo” in Harbin once a year to comprehensively display the advantages and development potential of Heilongjiang Province's food industry. At the same time, a Heilongjiang Province Green Food Trading Center will be established in Harbin, with supporting construction of a trading network system, quality monitoring system, electronic settlement system, inspection and testing system, and logistics distribution system, operating all year round without holidays. The permanent trading center will focus on spot trading of green food and, at the same time, in accordance with relevant national regulations, carry out medium- and long-term contract trading of agricultural and forestry products in which Heilongjiang Province has advantages. Products traded in the center shall all adopt the system of requiring certificates and invoices and the system of commodity quality traceability.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Food enterprises in the province that go public can receive a maximum award of 10 million yuan.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
The Outline proposes that in 2013, Heilongjiang Province will concentrate 800 million to 1 billion yuan in funds to support the development of the green food industry, and will appropriately adjust this year by year according to development needs. For registered food enterprises in the province that are listed for the first time, if the raised funds are invested within the province, a one-time award of no more than 10 million yuan will be given.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Support the building of local food brands represented by Wandashan, Feihe, Dazhuangyuan, Qiulin, Beidahuang, Xiangshui, Wuchang, Jiusan, and Heisen, and support “China Time-honored Brand” food enterprises in becoming bigger and stronger.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Heilongjiang Province proposes to introduce capable domestic enterprises and well-known overseas food enterprises such as those from the European Union to invest in and build major food industry projects, provide financial support through methods such as loan interest subsidies and equity investment, and at the same time encourage capable enterprises to participate in building specialty food industrial parks.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Invest 50 million yuan annually to promote local food brands.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
The Outline proposes that the provincial government will uniformly organize food enterprises every year to carry out brand promotion in large and medium-sized cities across the country. The provincial government will invest 50 million yuan annually, concentrated on packaged publicity for local food brands, and broadcast public service advertisements for Heilongjiang Province's green food year-round on mainstream television and online media.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Support leading enterprises in carrying out brand marketing and channel marketing. For expenditures on market development and brand cultivation aimed at increasing market share, subsidies will be given according to market sales growth, with the maximum subsidy amount not exceeding 10 million yuan. Support leading enterprises in establishing food distribution centers in regional central cities nationwide and in establishing directly operated or franchise outlets in large and medium-sized cities nationwide. For enterprises whose out-of-province sales outlets rank in the top 10 by annual turnover, awards of 500,000 to 1 million yuan will be given.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Starting in 2013, appropriate awards will be given to food enterprises newly recognized as “China Well-known Trademarks” and those that receive the “China Quality Award,” “China Quality Nomination Award,” and the title of “China Time-honored Brand.” Heilongjiang Province will also organize a nationwide selection activity for “My Favorite Longjiang Food Brand (Product)” and make authoritative announcements in mainstream media.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Encourage food enterprises to establish traceability management systems.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
The Outline proposes that Heilongjiang Province will build a provincial food industry database and food industry information platform to provide product and technical information support for enterprises and specialized cooperatives.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
At the same time, establish a standard system for green and organic food agricultural production and implement quality standard control throughout the entire food production process. It will also build a food safety informatization regulatory traceability and quality safety risk assessment system, encourage enterprises to establish traceability management systems, and strive to make all food achieve “traceable origin, traceable flow, controllable quality, and checkable responsibility” within five years.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Heilongjiang Province will also incorporate all production bases and food enterprises into credit archive information management and regularly release to society a “blacklist” of enterprises and individuals that violate laws and regulations.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
The Outline proposes that in Heilongjiang Province, for those obtaining pollution-free, green, organic food, and agricultural product geographical indication certification, the certification fees will be fully subsidized by the government, and a certain proportion of subsidies will be given for the use fees of green and organic food labels.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Heilongjiang Province will also establish a coordinated mechanism for safeguarding the rights of food enterprises. When the lawful business rights and interests of food enterprises are infringed upon, departments such as agriculture and food and drug regulation shall promptly resolve the matter. For major rights protection cases, specialized forces will be organized to go to the place where rights are being defended to investigate and handle the matter.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
The green food industry will focus on developing 8 major industries.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Rice processing industry.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Based on the rice production belt formed by 40 counties (cities, districts) in the central-western, eastern, and southern parts of Heilongjiang Province and 6 management bureaus of the agricultural reclamation system, integrate rice processing resources, focus on building full-industry-chain projects for comprehensive utilization of deep processing of rice with an annual processing capacity of more than 300,000 tons and rice processing industrial parks with an annual processing capacity of more than 300,000 tons, and focus on developing refined rice, deep processing of rice bran, refined rice bran oil, and deep processing of broken rice.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Corn processing industry.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Around the high-quality high-starch corn production belt formed by 41 counties (cities, districts) in parts of the central-western and eastern regions and 8 management bureaus of the agricultural reclamation system, develop the corn deep processing industry, focus on supporting the construction of a number of corn deep processing projects of more than 600,000 tons, and develop healthy food series such as corn beverages, corn oil, and snack foods, as well as deep-processed products such as starch sugar, modified starch, and bio-fermentation products.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Soybean processing industry.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Around the high-yield, high-oil, and high-protein high-quality non-GMO soybean production belt formed by 30 counties (cities, districts) in the eastern and north-central regions and 5 management bureaus of the agricultural reclamation system, build new small-package edible oil production lines and projects for soybean products and deep-processed products, focusing on developing small-package edible oil, plant milk, snack foods, functional protein products, oligosaccharides, vitamin E, and traditional soybean products.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Potato processing industry.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Promote the construction of the potato processing industrial belt in the north-central and western regions, focusing on the Qiqihar area and counties (cities, districts) such as Bayan, Hulan, Nenjiang, Wangkui, and Hailun and 2 management bureaus of the agricultural reclamation system, develop the potato deep processing industry and potato snack food processing industry, and focus on developing starch, modified starch series, traditional vermicelli series, and nutritional snack series products.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Dairy processing industry.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Around the dairy cattle industrial belt formed by 31 major dairy cattle-producing counties (cities, districts) in the central-western region and 6 management bureaus of the agricultural reclamation system, build 10 modern demonstration dairy farms, form a high-yield dairy cattle core herd of 54,000 head, encourage dairy enterprises to build their own milk source bases, build, renovate, and expand a number of fresh milk deep processing projects of more than 300,000 tons, focus on developing high-end infant formula powder, and accelerate the development of products such as middle-aged and elderly formula powder, milk beverages, yogurt, sterilized fresh milk, milk cream, butter, cheese, functional milk powder, and concentrated milk protein powder.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Meat processing industry.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Around the pig production belt formed by 22 major grain-producing counties (cities, districts) and 3 management bureaus of the agricultural reclamation system, as well as the beef cattle production belt formed by 20 counties (cities, districts) mainly in the eastern and western regions and the Hongxinglong Management Bureau of the agricultural reclamation system, build or renovate a number of slaughtering and comprehensive utilization deep processing projects, focusing on developing products such as cooked food, instant meat products, sausage products, meat products for catering, and chilled segmented fresh meat.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Mountain specialty products processing industry.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Focus on building the black fungus industry bases in Dongning City, Shangzhi City, Jiayin County, and 4 forestry bureaus of the forest industry system, and build a forest edible fungus industrial cluster led by black fungus; rely on Jiamusi, Yichun, Hegang, Shuangyashan, and 4 forestry bureaus of the forest industry system to develop nut industry bases; with Harbin, Yichun, Daxing'anling, Heihe, and other places and 2 management bureaus of the agricultural reclamation system as key areas, lay out forest berry industry projects. Focus on developing wild vegetables, wild fruits, specialty dried berries, instant edible fungi, and nut processed foods.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Beet sugar industry.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Relying on Heilongjiang Province's resources and industrial foundation, consolidate and develop the beet sugar industry.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/
Original link."Notice of the General Office of the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province on Printing and Distributing the Outline for the Development of the Green Food Industry in Heilongjiang Province, Hei Zheng Ban Fa" [2013] No. 52. 文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11444/