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Food Valley of China integrates three industries

2017/4/25 15:03:41   source:sdchina.com

The Food Valley of China, a new brand of Weifang’s agriculture has come into existence. The media tour of major projects in Shandong arrived here on the afternoon of April 24.

The food valley, known for its integration of the three industries and modern agriculture, plays an important role in the industrial transformation and upgrading of Weifang city.

Started in 2012, the Food Valley of China is a key project of Weifang aiming to improve the core competitiveness of the city’s food industry.

In the center of the food valley lies China-US food and agriculture innovation center. It was jointly established by the University of California and Weifang municipal government, intending to build a high-level international exchange and cooperation platform in the fields of food safety, nutrition and sustainable agriculture.

In addition to American universities, the food valley also cooperates with Holland’s Wageningen University, Israel’s Tel Aviv University and Beijing University.

The East Asia Livestock Products Exchange is another masterpiece of industrial aggregation, which is also located in the food valley. As the largest trading platform of livestock in China and the east Asian area, products traded here contain living and segmented livestock as well as fresh meat and frozen meat. It is also China’s only trading platform for east Asia.

As of now, the exchange center has reached the intention of cooperation with over 800 enterprises and signed in 365 member enterprises. Among them, 46 are multinational enterprises and 4 are world top 500 companies.

The Food Valley of China gathers not only food but also an entire industrial chain or a platform and incubator, which appeals to and cultivates new industrial formats and patterns. The integration of the three industries is greatly promoted here and a complete industrial ecology has set up.

In Zhongbai Kitchen, one of the earliest projects joined Food Valley of China, electric forklift trucks are carrying crates of agricultural products, which will be shipped to stores after a series of processing and packaging. It has established a direct distribution system from field to table.

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