According to Red Meal Network, on April 23, the signing ceremony of the 50,000-ton prefabricated vegetable smart factory project of Sanxuan Supply Chain was successfully held in Wenjiang. Wang Jun, Deputy Secretary of Wenjiang District Party Committee and District Mayor of Chengdu, Dong Yong, Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Chengdu Cross-Strait Science and Technology Industry Development Park, Lu Hongxing, Member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Lu Dadong, Deputy Mayor of the District Government, Li Zhenhua, Director of the Management Committee of Chengdu Cross-Strait Science and Technology Industry Development Park, Li Pingxi, founder and CEO of Sanxuan Supply Chain, Tan Bo, co-founder of Sanxuan Supply Chain, Li Yang, founding partner of Zhu Guangyu Hot Pot Restaurant, Mou Jian, founder of Mao Jiao Hot Pot and Hou Hot Pot, and Cui Chen, partner of Zhongding Capital, attended the signing ceremony. The founders of more than 30 leading catering brands and the heads of more than 40 banks and financial systems from all over the country were invited to attend and witness.
The new factory project is located in Chengdu Cross-Strait Science and Technology Industry Development Park, including 50,000 tons of prefabricated vegetable smart factory, cold chain three-dimensional cold storage base two functional subjects, the project is positioned as a leading smart factory and black light factory in the domestic prefabricated food manufacturing industry, is expected to start construction in the third quarter of 2024, mass production in the fourth quarter of 2025, and the estimated annual output value can reach 20-3 billion yuan after completion.
Wang Jun, deputy secretary of the Wenjiang District Party Committee and head of the district, pointed out in his speech that the green food industry, as one of the three landmark industries in Wenjiang, is the source industry of Wenjiang District's industry, creating the first 10-billion-level manufacturing cluster in the district, ranking third in the city in terms of industrial scale, and 152 green food enterprises As a leading enterprise in the hot pot prefabricated food subdivision industry, the implementation of the 50,000-ton prefabricated food intelligent factory project will surely inject strong momentum into the vigorous development of Wenjiang's green food industry.
"Today's signing is the beginning of the project, is an important milestone in the development of the second entrepreneurship of the three spin enterprises", the founder of the three spin supply chain Li Pingxi said, from 2017 in Chengdu to start an enterprise, taking advantage of the spring breeze of the great development of China's prefabricated food industry, less than 7 years, the three spins have successfully ranked among the first echelon of China's catering supply chain enterprises, the company's product innovation, customer service by the majority of catering brands unanimously recognized; The steady growth of the hot pot industry and the huge growth space of China's restaurant chain rate also provide endless opportunities for the sustainable development of Sanxuan in the future. Sanxuan is firmly optimistic about the track of hot pot prefabricated dishes, and the investment cooperation with Chengdu Cross-Strait Science and Technology Industry Development Park will also add strong momentum to the rapid development of Sanxuan, and continue to bring more possibilities for the development of China's prefabricated food industry.
"The prefabricated food industry is a rare sunrise industry for China's economic development in the future", Cui Chen, a partner of Bell Capital, said in his speech that from the perspective of the development history of the international community and major economies, the industrialization and standardization of food represented by prefabricated ingredients is an important path to improve the efficiency of the catering industry; Zhong Ding deeply agrees with the development strategy and corporate culture of Sanxuan, and firmly believes that with the help and support of the Wenjiang government in the future, the company will have a better future.
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the China Cuisine Association, and the Red Meal Data Research Institute, China's catering industry has developed steadily in the past 10 years, with an overall scale of more than 5,000 billion yuan in 2023 and is expected to exceed 5,500 billion yuan in 2025. Since 2019, the market size of China's hot pot industry has exceeded 500 billion yuan, and it has achieved a strong rebound after the epidemic, and is expected to exceed 850 billion yuan by 2025, steadily moving towards a trillion market. At the same time, the chain rate of restaurants in China is only 21%, which is huge compared with the 50% level of developed countries such as Japan and the United States, which provides a double momentum for the development of upstream prefabricated ingredients.
From 2015 to 2024, from the national to local governments, a total of more than 150 policies such as food manufacturing and prefabricated food support were issued, and on March 21, 2024, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, and the National Health Commission jointly issued the Notice on Strengthening the Food Safety Supervision of Prefabricated Dishes and Promoting the High-quality Development of the Industry, standardizing and leading the accelerated development of the industry at the national level.
The prefabricated food industry has become one of the current domestic industries from the national to the local, from the industry to the investment field. At present, Sichuan has formed a prefabricated food industry layout with hot pot and Sichuan cuisine as the core, and has become one of the three major prefabricated food R&D and production bases in China. In 2022, the leading prefabricated food enterprises represented by Sanxuan will all obtain well-known domestic capital investment, and in the next 3 to 5 years, 1 billion and 10 billion catering supply chain enterprises will emerge rapidly with the blessing of capital power.
After nearly 7 years of rapid development, Sanxuan has formed a product matrix and large-scale R&D model with beef, claw and pig by-meat protein as the core; through co-research and co-creation with more than 100 domestic catering head chain brands, it has successfully built a "leading large-scale customized service model" integrating demand insight, food ingredient definition, process research and innovation, and stable production; The international leading and domestic first-class prefabricated food comprehensive service enterprise".
Wenjiang District Government, Chengdu Cross-Strait Science and Technology Industry Development Park Management Committee relevant leaders, Wenjiang District Market Supervision Bureau, Economic and Information Bureau, Agriculture and Rural Bureau, Commerce Bureau, Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, Federation of Industry and Commerce, Jinma Street and other district-level department heads, Sichuan Food Research Institute, Sichuan Food Inspection and Research Institute, Sichuan Prefabricated Vegetable Industry Alliance, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu University, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other professional institutions and scientific research institutions, Sanxuan, Sheng'en, Mingyang and other supply chain enterprises, as well as representatives of catering enterprises such as Zhu Guangyu Hot Pot Restaurant, Roadside, Hou Hot Pot, Da Qianjin Hot Pot Skewers, Luoer Hot Pot, etc., conducted in-depth communication and discussion on the formulation of industry standards, regional policy support, infrastructure construction, transformation of market consumer demand, supply chain capacity building, and technological innovation of prefabricated food in the hot pot prefabricated industry, so as to provide suggestions and suggestions for promoting the high-quality development of the industry.
At the meeting, Sanxuan, Sheng'en and Jinma Street, Wenjiang District jointly signed a co-construction agreement, and the three parties will give full play to their respective advantages in products, technologies and services to promote the construction of Wenjiang Hot Pot Prefabricated Cuisine Experience Center, and build it into an important display window for the prefabricated food industry in Sichuan Province.
(Author: Red Meal Editorial Department)