Yinan food industry gains value through smarter services

Yinan county, a major food production base in Linyi, is adding new value to its food industry through deeper processing, faster services and digital supply chains.

That shift is visible at Yinan Kaiyuan Food, where a duck-neck project has helped the company move beyond raw-material sales and build a first-phase annual capacity of 18,000 metric tons of cooked meat products.

Meanwhile, another Yinan-based food processor, Tsingoo, is turning to higher-value exports.

"The county helped us phase out lower-end capacity and focus on high-value products such as freeze-dried vegetable soup. The new production line has quadrupled our export unit price," said general manager Shi Xia.

Tsingoo ships 300 metric tons of frozen vegetables daily to 40-plus countries, while a county-backed testing center has cut inspection time from two weeks to two hours.

Stronger services and digital platforms are extending support across the chain. Local official Qiao Yuping said 62 approval items have been packaged into 20 integrated scenarios, with 34 policies covering finance, talent, taxes and fees.

A vegetable data platform, which now serves as a research center, covers more than 500 buyers and 11,000 growers, with annual trading volume of about 950,000 metric tons and turnover above 290 million yuan ($42 million).

In the first five months, green fruit and vegetable processing output rose 33.9 percent to 314 million yuan, while healthy meat products reached 15.18 billion yuan, up 13.6 percent.

Smarter services support food industry upgrades in Yinan. [Photo/Linyi Daily]

Editor：韩蒙蒙