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 the organic and green industry 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 approximately 550 billion yuan, and the added value of Heilongjiang Province's food industry is expected to reach approximately 120 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of more than 20%, and its proportion of the national food industry's added value will increase from 3% to more than 4%.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Hold a “Green Expo” in Harbin once a year.”Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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 year-round without holidays. The permanent trading center will focus on spot transactions of green food and, at the same time, in accordance with relevant national regulations, carry out medium- and long-term contract transactions for agricultural and forestry products in which Heilongjiang Province has advantages. Products traded within the center shall all adopt the system of requiring certificates and invoices and the commodity quality traceability system.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Food enterprises in the province that go public can receive up to 10 million yuan in awards.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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 thereafter appropriately adjust the amount year by year according to development needs. For food enterprises registered in the province that are initially listed, if the raised funds are invested within the province, a one-time award of no more than 10 million yuan will be given.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Support the construction of local food brands represented by Wondersun, Feihe, Grand Farm, Qiulin, Beidahuang, Xiangshui, Wuchang, Jiusan, and Heisen, and support “China Time-honored Brand” food enterprises in becoming larger and stronger.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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 special food industry parks.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Invest 50 million yuan annually to promote local food brands.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
The Outline proposes that the provincial government will uniformly organize food enterprises every year to conduct 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 green food year-round on mainstream television and online media.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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 based on 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 across the country and establishing directly operated or franchised outlets in large and medium-sized cities nationwide. Enterprises whose out-of-province sales outlets rank in the top 10 in annual turnover will be awarded 500,000 to 1 million yuan.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Starting in 2013, appropriate awards will be given to food enterprises newly recognized as “China Well-known Trademarks” and those that obtain the “China Quality Award,” “China Quality Nomination Award,” and “China Time-honored Brand” titles. Heilongjiang Province will also organize a nationwide selection activity for “My Favorite Longjiang Food Brand (Product)” and make authoritative announcements in mainstream media.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Encourage food enterprises to establish traceability management systems.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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 informatized regulatory traceability and quality safety risk assessment system, encourage enterprises to establish traceability management systems, and strive to achieve within 5 years that all food is “traceable in origin, traceable in flow, controllable in quality, and accountable in responsibility.”Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Heilongjiang Province will also incorporate all production bases and food enterprises into credit file information management and regularly publish to society a “blacklist” of enterprises and individuals that violate laws and regulations.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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 personnel will be organized to investigate and handle them at the place where rights are being safeguarded.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Green food will focus on developing 8 major industries.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Rice processing industry.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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 comprehensive whole-industry-chain projects for deep processing and comprehensive utilization of rice with annual processing capacity of more than 300,000 tons and processing industrial parks with annual rice processing capacity of more than 300,000 tons, with emphasis on developing refined rice, deep processing of rice bran, refined rice bran oil, and deep processing of broken rice.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Corn processing industry.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Around the high-quality high-starch corn production belt formed by 41 counties (cities, districts) in the central-western and eastern parts 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.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Soybean processing industry.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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 central-northern parts and 5 management bureaus of the agricultural reclamation system, build new small-package edible oil production lines and soybean products and deep-processed product projects, with emphasis on developing small-package edible oil, plant milk, snack foods, functional protein products, oligosaccharides, vitamin E, and traditional soybean products.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Potato processing industry.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Promote the construction of the potato processing industry belt in the central-northern 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, with emphasis on developing starch, modified starch series, traditional vermicelli series, and nutritional snack series products.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Dairy processing industry.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Around the dairy cattle industry 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 new 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 new and expand a number of fresh milk deep processing projects of more than 300,000 tons, focus on developing high-end infant formula powder, accelerate the development of middle-aged and elderly formula powder, milk beverages, yogurt, sterilized fresh milk, milk essence, cream, cheese, functional milk powder, and concentrated milk protein powder and other products.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Meat processing industry.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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, with emphasis on developing cooked foods, instant meat products, sausage products, catering meat products, and cut chilled fresh meat and other products.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Mountain specialty products processing industry.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Focus on building 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 industry 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.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Beet sugar industry.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/
Relying on Heilongjiang Province's resources and industrial foundation, consolidate and develop the beet sugar industry.Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/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. Artikel berasal dariFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/ms/11444/