Jiangsu takes a global view to expand agricultural development, fully develops an open economy, seizes the opportunity of "Belt and Road" construction, and adheres to the combination of "going out" and "bringing in" to build a new pattern of open agricultural development.
In order to speed up the development and improve the quality of open agriculture, Jiangsu supports the orderly expansion of existing export enterprises, and strives to cultivate a number of leading enterprises in the import and export of agricultural products to support the development of open agriculture.
Jiangsu is a province with small per capita resources, but also a province with large processing, trade and consumption of agricultural products. It is urgent to expand new space for agricultural development through open cooperation. In recent years, Jiangsu has given full play to the location advantages of an open economy, seized the opportunity of "One Belt, One Road" construction, adhered to the combination of "going out" and "bringing in", made overall use of two international and domestic markets, two resources and two types of rules, vigorously promoted the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, accelerated the construction of a new pattern of open agricultural development, and expanded agricultural development with a global view, and frequently played "open cards".
Last year, the total import and export volume of agricultural products in Jiangsu reached 19.66 billion US dollars, of which the export volume exceeded 4 billion US dollars for the first time.
Cultivate new advantages of open agriculture
Recently, into the production workshop of Jiangsu Xingye Food Co., Ltd., 12 FD vacuum freeze-drying production lines and 46 AD production ovens are running intensively. The freeze-dried food production workshop covering an area of 20,000 square meters is the largest in Jiangsu. "In order to do a good job in quality control and brand cultivation, we have specially established a raw material planting base of more than 10,000 mu and passed a number of international and domestic quality certifications." Zhang Hongxiao, general manager of Jiangsu Xingye Food Co., Ltd. said that the export volume of dehydrated vegetables of enterprises has remained the first in Jiangsu for many years. From January to May this year, it exported 13 million US dollars, and it is estimated that the annual export will reach more than 25 million US dollars, with an increase of more than 34%.
"Every two packages of instant noodles have a package of vegetables made in Xinghua." Xinghua city, where Jiangsu Xingye Food Co., Ltd. is located, is the largest production, processing and export base of dehydrated vegetables and the distribution center of finished products in China and even in Asia. Li Weiguo, secretary of Xinghua Municipal Party Committee, said that the city’s dehydrated vegetables, a pillar industry, exported 120 million US dollars last year, accounting for more than 40% of the national and provincial dehydrated vegetables exports.
"The products of Xinghua dehydrated vegetable industry have developed from a single traditional AD (dried food) product to a series of FD (freeze-dried food) and IQF (quick-frozen food) products. From ingredients to end products, from food accessories to health care products, the types of export products have expanded from the past three varieties of shallots, cabbages and carrots to more than 10 kinds of green peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes and tomatoes." Li Weiguo said that in recent years, xinghua city has taken the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure as one of the main graspers, focused on attracting talents and attracting investment, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of enterprises. In the next step, xinghua city will make great efforts to promote the health food industry to climb in the direction of intensive processing, terminal food and brand food, and transform from simple product production to design, research and development, brand and service.
In Jiangsu, despite the rapid development of open agriculture, there are still some problems, such as relatively small total international trade of agricultural products, high land labor costs and obvious restrictions on resource shortage. Therefore, Yang Shiyun, director of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that Jiangsu will make great efforts to adjust the "three structures" and cultivate new advantages of open agriculture. Optimize the export industrial structure, and consolidate and upgrade the characteristic industries around the four export pillar industries; Optimize the structure of high-end products, develop characteristic agricultural products and deeply processed agricultural products, and increase the added value of export agricultural products; Optimize the diversified market structure, seize the opportunity of the "Belt and Road" and jointly develop multi-level agricultural cooperation with relevant countries.
Using the platform skillfully to expand new achievements
At the 20th Jiangsu Agricultural International Cooperation Fair held in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Guanyun Huanong Development Company set its sights on the countries related to the Belt and Road Initiative for the first time. Fu Lei, general manager of the company, told the reporter that the Lianyungang Comprehensive Bonded Zone was successfully approved, and the completion of a number of bases and ports, such as the Sino-Kazakhstan (Lianyungang) logistics cooperation base, the first physical project of the "Belt and Road", has built a broad platform for local enterprises to "go global", hoping to push the company’s edible roses abroad and to the "Belt and Road" national market.
In the process of seizing the opportunity of "One Belt, One Road" construction, Lianyungang actively guides enterprises with comparative advantages to make full use of two resources and two markets, encourages enterprises to invest in foreign countries to build bases and run enterprises, and the agricultural "going out" team continues to grow.
Peng Renyong, general manager of Lianyungang Yinfeng Edible Fungi Technology Co., Ltd. told the reporter that the enterprise is building a mushroom industrial park in Belarus, and it is expected to produce 900 tons of mushrooms this year. In addition, Jiangsu Yashi Fresh-keeping Products Co., Ltd. built a production and processing base of high-quality agricultural products in Cape Town, Guanyun Samsung Food built a deep processing base of lobster in Egypt, and Lianyungang Guo Xin Company’s edible fungus production equipment was exported to many countries and regions.
If we want to "go out", we should also "bring in". Suzhou Jinliqi Organic Agriculture Co., Ltd., which is jointly invested by longrich Group and Israeli Aurec Company, is the first to introduce micro-leaf vegetable planting technology in China, and adopt hydroponic soilless planting technology to grow green vegetables and fruits. The annual sales of flour and other products of Yihai Kerry (Kunshan) Food Industry Co., Ltd. invested by Singapore Fengyi International Co., Ltd. reached 2.8 billion yuan, driving more than 5,000 households.
Platform and carrier are not only the main position of open agriculture, but also the important starting point for agricultural transformation and upgrading driven by open agricultural radiation. At present, there are more than 150 national and provincial open agricultural carriers in Jiangsu, including 131 demonstration bases (districts) for exporting agricultural products, 14 agricultural cooperation parks between Jiangsu and Taiwan, 2 experimental zones for agricultural opening-up cooperation, 3 overseas agricultural cooperation demonstration zones, and 1 scientific and technological support and talent training base for agricultural cooperation with foreign countries.
Held 20 consecutive provincial "Agricultural Fair" and successfully co-organized the BRICS Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting, China — Major events such as the Ministerial Conference on Agricultural Innovation Cooperation in Israel have promoted a number of major agricultural foreign-funded industrial projects with large investment scale, strong driving force and excellent development quality and efficiency to land in Jiangsu.
At present, there are 110 agricultural "going out" projects registered and put on record in Jiangsu Province, with an agreed investment of US$ 1.49 billion. Compared with three years ago, both the number of projects and the agreed investment of China have increased by more than 80%. Enterprises from more than 80 countries and regions have invested in Jiangsu agriculture, and 6,624 foreign-invested agricultural projects have been approved, with the actual use of foreign capital of 21 billion US dollars.
Grasp the point and take the area to build a new pattern
Not long ago, Jiangsu Province allocated special funds for the development of modern agriculture to cities (counties). The funds were allocated in the form of "big projects+task list" management, which was mainly used to support the transformation and upgrading of open agricultural enterprises, the construction of platform carriers such as agricultural product export demonstration bases (districts), the export of advantageous agricultural products, and the "going out" of agriculture. It was not only clearly listed, but also clearly pointed out that all localities, especially key counties of open agriculture, should improve and perfect the open agriculture-related projects.
It is understood that special fund policy support is only one of the key points for Jiangsu to support the development of open agriculture. In the future, we will focus on supporting agricultural enterprises and gathering agricultural talents.
Agricultural products import and export enterprises, agricultural "going out" enterprises and other open subjects are the key to supporting the development of open agriculture and the core to determine the development speed and quality of open agriculture. Jiangsu will support the existing export enterprises to increase capital and shares and expand in an orderly manner, and strive to cultivate a number of leading enterprises in the import and export of agricultural products. Among the 836 leading agricultural enterprises above the provincial level, we will guide enterprises to participate in international trade in an orderly manner and add a number of new export business entities of agricultural products. At the same time, make full use of the Foreign Investment Law and the Special Administrative Measures for Foreign Investment Access (Negative List) (2018 Edition), and vigorously introduce "flagship", "industry leader" and "singles champion" in sub-sectors to invest in Jiangsu agriculture.
Agricultural talents are the first resource to strengthen agriculture and promote agriculture, and the development of open agriculture cannot be separated from the support of talents. Accelerating the cultivation of open talents is an urgent requirement to win the initiative in the fierce international competition. "Jiangsu takes the cultivation of agricultural talents as an important starting point and focuses on gathering new resources for open agriculture." Yang Shiyun said that Jiangsu adheres to the combination of government support and enterprise self-cultivation, focusing on cultivating practical talents, strengthening the introduction of talents at home and abroad, focusing on gathering high-end talents and scientific and technological talents, striving to cultivate a group of agricultural talents with international vision, and enhancing the development potential of open agriculture in the province. (Economic Daily China Economic Net reporter Xue Haiyan Jiang Bo)
