China's dairy industry aims at three major goals to speed up transformation and upgrading

On August 18, the D20 summit of China's dairy industry with the theme of "quality and safety development and revitalization of China's dairy industry" was held in Beijing. Twenty large dairy enterprises jointly issued the Beijing Declaration, proposing to firmly follow the development path of industrial integration, lead the transformation and upgrading of the industry, and vigorously promote the transformation from traditional dairy industry to modern dairy industry.

Standardized scale farming is dominant.

"Fat 4.1, protein 3.5." The monitoring screen in the milking hall shows the quality of the milk source for the day. Two sets of turntable milking machines are turning methodically, and the cows are listed in turn and milked automatically. This is the scene that the reporter saw in a ranch of Junlebao Dairy not long ago.

Great changes are taking place in the mode of production of dairy industry in our country. Standardized scale farming has dominated, with milk from large-scale pastures accounting for more than 60%. Han Changfu, minister of agriculture, said that in 2014, the proportion of large-scale farming of more than 100 dairy cows reached 45 percent, and the mechanized milking rate reached 90 percent, an increase of 25 and 39 percentage points respectively over 2008, and the situation of "small, scattered and low" farming has been reversed.

With the increase in scale, production efficiency is also improving. Wang Jiaqi, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that from dairy farming to fresh milk transportation to dairy processing, the application of mechanized and information-based equipment has greatly improved production efficiency. In 2014, more than 70% of the pastures across the country were equipped with fully mixed ration mixers, 84% of the farms used mechanical automatic manure removal, and more and more farms adopted information management systems.

The development of dairy enterprises is becoming more global.

"the development of the dairy industry faces many difficulties, the product quality of individual dairy enterprises is not high, consumer confidence in domestic dairy products is still insufficient, and the upside-down price of dairy products at home and abroad has increased the impact on imports. China's dairy industry must take the road of high-quality and safe development, strengthen variety improvement, quality improvement, brand creation, and promote scale, intensification and standardization. " Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said.

At present, the development of China's dairy industry is becoming more global, and the degree of dependence on imported dairy products is increasing year by year. In this regard, many dairy enterprises have chosen to develop internationally and have set up milk source bases or processing plants in New Zealand, Australia and other countries in the form of investment, acquisition and holding.

Pan Gang, chairman of Yili Group, believes that the "going global" of the dairy industry includes at least three aspects: resources, standards and research and development. On the one hand, it can supplement domestic consumption demand and stabilize the fluctuation of domestic raw milk prices; on the other hand, it can also reduce the resource pressure of domestic animal husbandry in water, grass and other aspects.

Industrial integration is accelerated.

The integration of dairy industry in China has achieved initial results. "there are 13000 dairy farmers' professional production cooperatives nationwide, an increase of 62 percent over 2008. Dairy farmers' self-service ability and dialogue ability with enterprises have improved significantly. At the same time, vigorously promote contract milk collection, most dairy farmers have signed milk collection contracts with dairy enterprises, and the cooperative relationship is tending to long-term stability. " Gu Cheng, secretary general of China Dairy Association, said.

Dairy industry covers forage planting, dairy farming, dairy processing and other industries, integration is the ideal pattern for the development of dairy industry. "in the future, we should speed up the construction of a modern dairy production system and build an integrated development model of planting, breeding and addition." Han Changfu said.

How to promote the further development of industrial integration in the future? Li Shengli, chief scientist of the national dairy industry technology system, suggested that in the breeding link, it is necessary to innovate the dairy production and management system. Dairy farmers are the main body of dairy farming, and they should actively support large dairy households, joint household operations, family farms and other operators, implement the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry, appropriate scale, and a balance of cultivation and cultivation, vigorously support the development of dairy farmers' cooperatives, and improve the degree of organization of dairy farmers. complete the transformation and upgrading of farming areas into pastures.