Shanxi Jinzhong has drawn up a roadmap for high-quality agriculture during the “15th Five-Year Plan” to create a pioneer area, agglomeration area and a demonstration area

China News Service, Jinzhong, November 6 (Gao Yuqing) "During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we will adhere to the path of developing superior agriculture, focusing on scale agglomeration, leading leadership, technological research, intensive processing, brand cultivation, industrial integration and other aspects, and strive to build Jinzhong into a pioneer area, agglomeration area, and demonstration site for modern superior agriculture in the province." Duan Yanrui, Party Secretary and Director of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Bureau of Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, introduced on the 6th.

On the same day, the Propaganda Department of the Jinzhong Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Information Office of the Jinzhong Municipal People's Government held a special press conference on rural revitalization "Starting a new journey in Jinzhong - Jinzhong City's '15th Five-Year Plan' series of themed press conferences".

The 13th Party Congress of Shanxi Province and the 6th Party Congress of Jinzhong City both clearly stated that “we must deeply implement the premium strategy and vigorously develop premium agriculture.” Duan Yanrui said that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Jinzhong City will use strong industrial towns, characteristic professional towns, and industrial parks as the starting point to continue to strive for provincial-level high-quality agricultural quality and efficiency improvement projects, focusing on the development of large-scale and standardized vegetable, fruit, livestock and poultry production bases to form an industrial cluster effect.

The vegetable industry will promote the scale of bulk vegetables and strive to increase the city's vegetable planting area from 480,000 acres to 530,000 acres by the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and the total vegetable output from 2.2 million tons to more than 2.45 million tons. At the same time, it will create a well-known tomato industry distribution center in the province. In terms of the fruit industry, on the basis of stabilizing Qixian Suli and Yuci Red Star apples, we will focus on supporting the construction of the 4,000-acre golden Venus apple base in Yuci, striving to make it a well-known industry and premium product in Jinzhong and even the entire province.

In terms of the livestock industry, on the basis of stabilizing pig production capacity, beef cattle and broiler chickens will be highlighted. We strive to increase the number of beef cattle sold in the city from the current 200,000 to 250,000 by the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan". Accelerate the promotion of the provincial-level premium agricultural project of Pingyao's 50 million chick industrial park, and strive to achieve the annual hatching capacity of more than 50 million chicks by the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan", and the annual slaughter and slaughtering capacity to 36 million, creating a benchmark area for chicks in the province.

In terms of leading, Jinzhong will promote more than 14 leading agricultural enterprises with foundation and strength to be promoted to the national and provincial echelons. Among them, the focus is on promoting 2 to 4 companies to apply for national leading agricultural enterprises. By the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan", the operating income of leading enterprises at or above the county level will increase from 34.6 billion yuan to 43 billion yuan. At the same time, leading agricultural enterprises are guided to deeply explore the export potential of agricultural products such as staple foods and cakes, and strive to achieve an export volume of agricultural products of the city of 150 million yuan this year, with an average annual growth rate of more than 5% during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

In terms of technological research, the technical needs of agricultural market entities are collected around dominant industries to form a "one industry, one list", which is promptly pushed to scientific research platforms such as Shanxi Agricultural University and Jinzhong Agricultural High-tech Zone to accurately match scientific and technological achievements and achieve a two-way connection between "enterprises looking for technology" and "technology looking for scenarios"; focusing on grain In key areas such as high oil production, fruit and vegetable processing, handmade vinegar brewing, agricultural machinery and equipment, and specialty breeding, we will carry out technical research and promotion of results in the form of joint efforts between government departments and scientific research teams, and joint scientific research teams and enterprises, striving to innovate and shine in organic dry farming, cereal staple food cakes, and agricultural machinery manufacturing.

In terms of intensive processing, we promote the transformation of primary processing into high value-added products, extend the industrial chain, enhance the value chain, and allow good products to be sold at good prices. Strive to increase the sales revenue of the city's agricultural product processing industry from 50 billion yuan to 60 billion yuan by the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan".

In terms of brand cultivation, we will accelerate the construction of two major regional public brand physical products and operation systems, "Agricultural Products from High Quality Products" and "Taixing Mountain Products from Taihang Mountains". We will select the best from the best and gather famous products to form representatives of regional characteristics and comprehensively enhance the recognition, popularity and influence of Jinzhong's agricultural products. At present, it has connected with a number of third parties and is stepping up efforts to promote specific matters such as brand identity, access standards, packaging design, and operating models, striving to officially launch it in 2027.

In terms of industrial integration, Duan Yanrui said that Jinzhong City will rely on the characteristic brand of "Yiran Jinzhong·Sweet City" and the city's 9 national, 21 provincial and 22 municipal beautiful leisure villages to promote one industry after another and develop new models and new business formats such as agriculture + cultural tourism and + health care according to local conditions, create and promote a number of rural tourism boutique routes, make rural areas an attractive place, let agricultural products become a profitable trade, allow farmers to find jobs nearby, steadily increase income, and share development dividends.