On September 26th, the 24th China Agricultural Products Processing Industry Investment and Trade Fair opened at the Zhumadian Convention and Exhibition Center. Governor Wang Kai attended and announced the opening, and Liu Huanxin, deputy director of the Central Agricultural Office and vice minister of agriculture and rural affairs, made a keynote speech.
Vice Governor Wu Guoding and Deputy Representative of the United Nations World Food Programme in China, Maha Ahmed, delivered speeches at the opening ceremony, and Li Yingjie, vice chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the ceremony.
Before the opening ceremony, Wang Kai and Liu Huanxin held talks, and visited the domestic, provincial, "Internet +" agricultural products processing and other exhibition areas, and communicated with representatives of exhibitors to understand production, research and development, and sales.
Wang Kai pointed out that Henan is a large agricultural province and a large province for the processing of agricultural products, and the scale of the food processing industry has exceeded one trillion yuan, becoming an important pillar industry in the province. At present, the whole province is deeply implementing the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on inspecting Henan, anchoring the "two guarantees" goal, implementing the important deployment of the "Ten Strategies", coordinating and promoting post-disaster recovery and reconstruction and economic and social development, and striving to build a modern Henan. The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government officially inaugurated the Shennong Seed Industry Laboratory three days ago, taking an important step towards building a national innovation highland and building a first-class innovation platform, and will continue to exert efforts on this basis, continuously seek breakthroughs in key technologies in the seed industry, and strive to ensure national food security more steadily and firmly, laying a solid foundation for the Central Plains to be more brilliant. It is hoped that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will continue to care for henan's "three rural areas" work and give more support and assistance in the development of agricultural industrialization, personnel training, and the construction of core areas of grain production.
Liu Huanxin said that Henan is an important grain, meat and oilseed production base in the country, and in recent years, on the basis of ensuring national food security, it has promoted the continuous development and growth of the agricultural product processing industry, and has embarked on a virtuous circle road, and its achievements are amazing. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will actively provide assistance for Henan's post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, support Henan to strengthen the construction of grain production core areas, further enhance the comprehensive production and processing capacity of grain, make the agricultural product processing industry bigger and stronger, continuously improve the entire agricultural industrial chain, and accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
With the theme of "upgrading the agricultural product processing industry and building the whole agricultural industry chain", this agricultural fair adopts the interactive integration mode of "online + offline", and will hold a series of activities such as the high-quality development forum of the agricultural product processing industry, the display and promotion of characteristic agricultural products in poverty alleviation areas, and the signing ceremony of key projects, attracting more than 220 agricultural product processing enterprises from 51 countries and regions such as the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom to participate in the exhibition, with more than 170 domestic delegations, more than 4,000 enterprises and more than 34,000 merchants. (Reporter Guixin)