Comply with the trend, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, the rapid development of agricultural products processing industry

Since the beginning of the new century, China's agricultural product processing industry has developed rapidly. In 2014, the main business income of the national large-scale agricultural products processing industry exceeded 23 trillion yuan, and the agricultural products processing industry has become an important pillar industry and livelihood industry. At present, China's economic development has entered a new normal, and the agricultural product processing industry presents some new characteristics. We should grasp these trend changes, conform to the trend, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, further strengthen industry management and policy support, and constantly improve the development level and quality of agricultural products processing industry.

The growth rate of operating income shifts, and the industry has great potential for development. From 2000 to 2013, the main business income of agricultural products processing enterprises above the national scale maintained double-digit growth. The growth rate has slowed down in the past two years, 13.8% in 2013 and 8.2% in 2014, which is in line with the law of industry development and changes in the macro situation. China has entered the middle stage of industrialization, the urbanization rate has reached 54.77%, and there is a strong demand for processed agricultural products, but there is a big gap between the ratio of the output value of processing industry and agricultural output value, and the conversion rate of agricultural products processing, especially the conversion rate of intensive processing, compared with developed countries. It shows that there is still great potential for the development of China's agricultural products processing industry.

The total amount of investment has increased against the trend, and the rise of backbone enterprises has accelerated. In recent years, the growth rate of fixed assets investment in China's agricultural products processing industry is higher than that of the whole society and large-scale industrial fixed assets investment, and some backbone agricultural products processing enterprises are on the rise. At present, there are more than 50 agricultural products processing enterprises with an annual sales income of more than 10 billion yuan. To comply with this situation, while supporting small and medium-sized processing enterprises, the government should seize the opportunity to foster national processing enterprises with international competitiveness.

The spatial layout accelerates the agglomeration, and the advantages of backwardness in the central and western regions appear. China's agricultural products processing industry is concentrated in the suburbs of big cities, showing three new trends in recent years: first, agglomeration to the main producing areas of agricultural products. In 2014, the main business income of agricultural products processing industry in Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan, Guangdong and Hubei provinces accounted for 46.9% of the country's total. The second is to gather to the characteristic product processing zone. For example, Henan frozen food accounts for about 60% of the country's total. The third is to gather to the processing industry park. A number of agricultural products processing parks have been built, and enterprises are under centralized and standardized management, which not only ensures public services such as land, water and electricity, but also saves costs such as investment in infrastructure construction, but also helps to protect the environment and attracts more and more enterprises to enter. Industrial agglomeration is conducive to the production and processing subjects and logistics, monitoring, R & D and other service institutions to form a close cooperative relationship, promote professional division of labor and optimal allocation of resources. Fourth, the advantages of backwardness appear in the central and western regions. In the past 10 years, the traffic conditions in the central and western regions have been greatly improved. with the advantage of raw material resources, the agricultural products processing industry has developed rapidly, and the proportion of main business income in the whole country has increased by 13.7 and 4.5 percentage points respectively.

The transformation of business philosophy has been accelerated and the degree of integration and development has been deepened. More and more agricultural products processing enterprises attach importance to the construction of innovative capacity, take the development path of sophisticated, green and scale, and adopt the integrated management model of high-quality agricultural product base construction, scientific research and development, production and processing, marketing and services. the degree of integration and development of agricultural products processing industry and related industries has been deepened. This is prominently shown in three aspects: first, it is integrated with raw material production. Most of the agricultural products processing enterprises above scale have established production bases of raw materials for agricultural products processing to control the safety of agricultural products from the source. The second is to integrate with scientific research institutions. Most of the agricultural products processing enterprises above scale have established close cooperative relations with scientific research institutes, and the investment in R & D has increased year by year. The third is to integrate with e-commerce. The network sales mode of agricultural products has triggered e-commerce to compete to seize the market, and new marketing methods continue to emerge. The integration of traditional supply chain and Internet reduces the intermediate cost, expands the market radius, and improves the operation efficiency.

Emerging industries and traditional industries have developed together, and new growth points have emerged. With the change of food consumption, a new growth point has emerged in the agricultural product processing industry. First, the development speed of staple food processing industry (convenience food manufacturing) is obviously higher than the average level of processing industry. Second, the processing industry of nutritious snack foods such as baking and confectionery is developing rapidly. Third, the processing industry of healthy functional food such as edible fungi has become a new hot spot of consumption. Fourth, the income of agricultural products processing sub-industries is growing rapidly. In 2014, the main business income of egg processing, nutrition and health food manufacturing, quick-frozen food manufacturing and rice noodle products increased by more than 15%. The new growth points in emerging industries and traditional industries inject strong impetus into the development of the processing industry, and it is an important field to tap the potential in the future.

Its status in economic and social development has been enhanced, and the role of stable growth in benefiting the people's livelihood has been highlighted. Agricultural products processing industry connects agriculture and farmers at one end, industry and citizens at the other, with high industrial relevance, wide industry coverage and great value-added potential. it is the basic, pillar and strategic industry of the national economy. In the past 10 years, the share of the total output value of China's agricultural products processing industry in the industry has basically stabilized at about 16 percent, and the contribution of tax revenue to financial revenue has basically stabilized at about 10 percent, which has made an important contribution to the country's economic development and meeting the needs of people's daily life. The ratio of agricultural products processing to agricultural output value in China has increased from 1.7 ∶ 1 in 2010 to 2.1 ∶ 1 in 2014, which has effectively promoted the development of agriculture and promoted the construction of modern agriculture. The raw material grain consumed by the processing industry every year is more than twice the national grain policy reserves, alleviating the pressure on the sale of agricultural products. As a labor-intensive industry, agricultural products processing industry has made outstanding contributions to employment and farmers' income. Since 2012, in addition to a large number of seasonal employment, the annual employment of the national scale agricultural products processing industry has remained at more than 25 million, with an average annual increase of 4.4 per cent in the past 10 years.

The pace of foreign investment has been accelerated, and ethnic processing enterprises have been hit. The strong domestic market demand is not only the fundamental reason for the sustained and rapid development of China's agricultural product processing industry, but also the inducement to accelerate the pace of foreign investment. At present, in China's grain and oil, animal products, food and beverages and other fields, foreign capital controls the voice of the domestic market to varying degrees. The entry of foreign capital not only promotes the development of related industries, but also has a great impact on national agricultural products processing enterprises. The processing of agricultural products involves the national economy and the people's livelihood, so we should formulate and improve the catalogue of encouragement and restrictions on the entry of foreign capital in accordance with international rules, strengthen dynamic tracking and monitoring, encourage national enterprises to become bigger and stronger, and prevent foreign capital monopoly. ensure the safety of agricultural products processing industry and food safety.