A Summary of the Development achievements of China's Dairy Industry in recent years

A cup of milk makes a nation strong. The development of the dairy industry is closely related to every countryman. however, the 2008 melamine incident dealt a major blow to China's dairy industry, and consumer confidence was seriously depressed.

Learn from the bitter experience and be reborn in the fire. After 8 years of hard work, China's dairy industry has achieved great-leap-forward development, the level of dairy quality and safety is in the best period in history, and the grand picture of the revitalization of the national dairy industry is slowly unfolding.

Top-level design comprehensively rectifies the industry

In October 2008, the first regulation of China's dairy industry, the regulations on the Supervision and Management of Dairy quality and Safety, was officially issued, which opened the prelude to strengthening the top-level design and comprehensively rectifying the dairy industry.

The outline of the Plan for the rectification and Revitalization of the Dairy Industry comprehensively rectifies the production, acquisition, processing and sale of dairy products; the measures for the Administration of fresh Milk production and acquisition standardize the production, acquisition, transportation, supervision and inspection of fresh milk; the National Dairy Cow advantage Regional layout Plan (2008-2015) seeks a layout for the macro-development of the dairy industry. The 66 new national standards for dairy safety have solved the problems of duplication, intersection, contradiction and unscientific index setting of dairy standards. A series of policies and systems have been introduced one after another, which have built a long-term mechanism for the sustained and healthy development of the dairy industry.

In the face of the problem of infant formula milk powder that consumers are most concerned about, the state has twice reviewed the production licenses of dairy products and infant formula milk powder enterprises, eliminated a number of enterprises with unguaranteed milk sources and backward production technology, and tightened the system of raw materials, production process and batch inspection of finished products for dairy enterprises.

In order to get the national dairy industry out of the trough as soon as possible, the state has also injected support funds for the dairy industry, which is specially used for subsidies for improved varieties of dairy cows, large-scale breeding of dairy cows, demonstration establishment of high-yield and high-quality alfalfa, determination of cow production performance, and so on. From 2008 to 2015, the cumulative investment of support funds reached 8.66 billion yuan.

The introduction of a series of policy "combination punches" has injected a strong driving force for the national dairy industry to regroup. By 2015, the proportion of large-scale farming of dairy cows across the country will be close to 50%, the rapid popularization of whole-plant silage, the initial formation of a production system dominated by large-scale dairy farms and medium-and high-yield dairy herds, and the comprehensive realization of mechanized milking and cold chain storage and transportation. revolutionary changes have taken place in the quality and safety of China's dairy industry.

Stick to quality and reshape the trust of Chinese people

In August this year, Jun Lebao, a domestic dairy company, announced that its infant formula would be sold in the Hong Kong market in the form of "the same product, the same quality and the same price" as the mainland. According to the test results of international authoritative organizations, this milk powder meets the relevant Hong Kong standards in terms of nutrition and food safety.

From buying milk powder in Hong Kong to selling milk powder in Hong Kong-the gorgeous turn of domestic infant formula is a true portrayal of the rise of the national dairy industry in adversity.

Since 2009, the Milk and Milk products quality Supervision, Inspection and Test Center of the Ministry of Agriculture has led 43 quality inspection institutions across the country to implement the national fresh milk quality and safety monitoring plan for eight consecutive years, focusing on the supervision of milk stations and transporters, to achieve two "full coverage" of raw milk quality and safety sampling inspection, that is, sampling inspection covers all milk stations throughout the country, testing indicators cover all prohibited additives, and the supervision system of the whole industry chain of the dairy industry is constructed.

The recently released "China Dairy quality report" shows that the qualified rate of illegal additives in fresh milk in China has been 100% for seven consecutive years. In 2015, the average percentage of milk protein and milk fat, which marked the quality of dairy products, reached 3.14% and 3.69%, respectively, which were 0.34 and 0.59 percentage points higher than the national standard of raw milk in China. The total number of colonies decreased to 467000 CFU/ml, which was much lower than the national standard of 2 million CFU/ml, and the number of somatic cells decreased to 333000 / ml. The main quality and health indexes reached the level of developed countries.

Affected by the infant milk powder incident, imported milk powder once had a 75% market share in China. The latest data show that the market share of domestic milk powder has gradually recovered to more than 50%. China's dairy industry is using its own efforts to regain consumer trust.

Transform and upgrade to modern dairy industry

Once the labor pains, but also in exchange for the acceleration of the dairy industry integration process.

Gu Cheng, vice president and secretary general of the China Dairy Association, said that only with the integration of various chains such as planting, breeding, processing, and sales, can a close interest linkage mechanism of the dairy industry be truly established. fundamentally solve the problem of "small, scattered, low and poor" in China's traditional dairy industry.

Data from the Ministry of Agriculture show that in recent years, China has achieved remarkable results in promoting the integration of the dairy industry. In 2015, the proportion of self-built and shareholding milk bases of national dairy enterprises exceeded 20%, nearly tripling that of 2008. Huishan dairy industry, modern animal husbandry and other enterprises have about 200000 dairy cows, alfalfa planting area of more than 100000 mu, milk sources are all self-sufficient.

The change is also happening quietly to dairy farmers. At present, there are 15100 dairy farmers' professional production cooperatives, an increase of 6.2 times over 2008, and the professional ability of dairy farmers has been significantly improved. Most dairy farmers have signed milk collection contracts with dairy enterprises, and the cooperative relationship is becoming more and more stable for a long time.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Agriculture, by the end of the 13th five-year Plan, the national milk output will reach 40.8 million tons, with an average annual increase of 400000 tons; the proportion of scale breeding of more than 100 dairy cows will reach 70 percent, an increase of 22 percentage points over the present, and large-scale farming will become the leading force in animal husbandry.

The magnificent relationship is as true as iron, and now we are moving forward from the beginning.

"We are confident that in five to 10 years, we will strive to reach the international advanced level of dairy quality by 2020, join the ranks of world dairy powers as a whole by 2025, achieve the goal of revitalizing and developing the dairy industry, and firmly hold the 'milk bottles' in our own hands." Han Changfu, Minister of Agriculture, said.