Recently, Aoyi News reporter visited Beidahuang Zhongken (Guangdong) Food Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Beidahuang Zhongken Company) located in Hengli Industrial Park, the company's soybean product production line was put into trial operation in May this year, with the flow of machines and production lines, batches of cold fresh soy products from here into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area market. It is understood that including the Beidahuang Zhongken Company, at present, a number of food-related enterprises have gathered in Hengli Industrial Park, covering all aspects of people's eating and drinking, and good grain, good vegetables, good tea, etc. gather here, and the prototype of the "central kitchen" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has appeared.
Trial operation of soybean product production workshop
Recently, in the soy product production workshop of Beidahuang Zhongken (Guangdong) Food Technology Co., Ltd., the staff was busy on the side of the production line wearing aseptic overalls. Taking tofu as an example, the machine can realize the steps of grinding beans, boiling soy milk and solidifying soy milk to make tofu, and workers only need to pay attention to the parameters of the machine and cleaning and other work. The production line in the workshop runs silently, and every day all kinds of tofu, dried tofu and other fresh soy products are made, these soy products have a short shelf life, need to be transported to all parts of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in a short time, soon reach major supermarkets, fresh stores and other places, and finally put on the residents' tables.
The soybean product production workshop of Beidahuang Zhongken (Guangdong) Food Technology Co., Ltd. Source: Liu Wei
"Nansha's geographical location and well-developed transportation are one of the reasons why we considered the Eco-City in the first place." Jiang Limin, chairman and general manager of the company, said in an interview with reporters that the Beidahuang (Greater Bay Area) Eco-Industry City is built and operated by Beidahuang Zhongken (Guangdong) Food Technology Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beidahuang Group, and is an important layout for Beidahuang's development strategy of "building modern agriculture, large bases and large industries, and striving to form an aircraft carrier in the agricultural field". "Beidahuang Group located the industrial park in Nansha District, which is due to its unique geographical advantages, convenient transportation and developed economy, which is not only the geographical geometric center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, but also the key node of the 'Belt and Road'."
Jiang Limin told reporters that the Eco-City Park covers an area of 36,000 square meters, with a total construction area of more than 60,000 square meters. At present, the company carries out production and operation activities around the operation of the Eco-City Park, takes bulk agricultural product trade as the economic growth point, takes the production and marketing of soybean products, rice processing and other deep processing of agricultural products as its main business, takes asset leasing, project cooperation, diversified operations, etc. as the guarantee, and builds a processing, warehousing, logistics and sales base of Beidahuang Group in South China through investment promotion and operation guarantee platform, agricultural product production and marketing platform, warehousing and logistics platform, incubation and innovation platform, R&D platform, trade business platform and brand display platform. Radiating the entire South China, Hong Kong and Macao markets, it is committed to the development and technological innovation of the green and healthy food industry.
The Eco-City "gears" began to turn
Walking into the Eco-City, the Aoyi News reporter saw that the main buildings of the industrial park have been completed, and buildings such as comprehensive office buildings, soybean product workshops, grain processing workshops, food workshops, freezers and refrigerators and constant temperature three-dimensional warehouses have been erected. In May this year, as the soy product workshop began trial operation, the eco-city burst into life and the "gears" began to turn.
It is reported that the soy product workshop in the Eco-City has a construction area of 15,000 square meters, an investment of more than 100 million yuan, and 8 domestic leading fully automated production equipment, which can process 40 tons of dried beans per day, and create high-quality soy products with the purpose of "safe factory, safe water source, safe formula, safe fresh-locked, and safe raw materials". At present, more than 20 products of 4 categories of self-owned brand "Yidoujun" soybean products have been fully listed.
Various products within the Eco-City. Source: Liu Wei
In the future, the grain processing workshop will also be put into use, with a construction area of 8,000 square meters, and a white rice processing and automatic packaging production line with an annual processing capacity of 30,000 tons will be built. In addition, the construction area of the food workshop in the park is 17,000 square meters, which will be built as a standard food-grade general workshop, planned as a prepared food sector, and has reached an intention with Nansha Modern Agricultural Group and Guangliang Group, planning to carry out in-depth cooperation on the construction of central kitchen prepared vegetable project and baked goods project.
The reporter learned that Beidahuang Zhongken (Guangdong) Food Technology Co., Ltd., which landed in Nansha, was established in January 2018 with a registered capital of 100 million yuan, and is a wholly state-owned enterprise integrating agricultural product processing and sales, warehousing and logistics, bulk agricultural product trade, food testing and research and development. In 2021, it was rated as the key leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization in Guangzhou.
Beidahuang Ecological Industrial City Park. Source: Liu Wei
Build a central kitchen in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
The reporter learned that the Hengli Industrial Park, where the Beidahuang Zhongken Company is located, is located on the east side of Hongqi Li Waterway, the west side of Tongxing Industrial Park, near the Hongqimen Gate of the eight major estuaries of the Pearl River, and across the river from Zhongshan City. The total planned land area of the park is about 3 square kilometers. After the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, Hengli Industrial Park will also become one of the bearing areas to undertake the overflow traffic pressure in Shenzhen.
Including the Beidahuang Zhongken Company, at present, a number of food-related enterprises have gathered in Hengli Industrial Park, including grain storage and processing enterprises such as Lingnan Sui Grain and Suifangyuan, as well as prefabricated vegetable production enterprises such as Zhenniu Guan and Gantang Mingshan, as well as tea production enterprises in Chali, and Shuangqiao Company that produces syrup, covering all aspects of people's eating and drinking, good grain, good vegetables, good tea, etc. gathered here, and the prototype of the "central kitchen" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has emerged.
Among them, Chali Company is one of the tea consumer goods companies, is a tea beverage service provider, focusing on new Chinese tea drinks, and owns the tea brand "CHALI". The company has built its own supply chain, built a tea industry research center and a finishing and deep processing production and manufacturing center, covering fully automated production center, R&D center, international tea academy, etc., and was rated as a future unicorn innovative enterprise in Guangzhou and a specialized and special new small and medium-sized enterprise in Guangdong Province. The tea produced and processed in Nansha goes from here to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and all parts of the country.
At the same time, the pre-made dishes and raw cuts produced by the real cow hall in the park have also actively explored the market, and Hong Kong customers have already ordered the "vacuum slow cooking" series of pre-made dishes, which have successfully entered the table of Hong Kong people. "Nansha's geographical and transportation advantages allow us to easily sell our products to all parts of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, so that people in more regions can eat our dishes." The relevant person in charge of the Real Cow Pavilion told reporters.
Written by: Ao Yi News trainee reporter Wang Qian