Zhangzhou News Network News (reporter Liao Yuting correspondent Huang Xiaomin Lin Bingjie) The epidemic has hit, and catering, passenger transport, tourism and other industries have been impacted. In Zhangzhou, China's "canning capital", the canning industry has shown a good trend of rising against the trend. The latest data from a set of Zhangzhou customs statistics shows that from March 1 to April 1 this year, Zhangzhou Customs District exported a total of 57.13 million US dollars worth of canned goods and weighed 43,527 tons, an increase of 9.8% and 11.3% respectively in the same period.
In the cold winter of the epidemic, why did the export of canned food not decrease but increase? According to the analysis of the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Canned Food Chamber of Commerce, the industrial foundation of the canned food industry in Zhangzhou is solid, the cluster effect is evident, the whole industrial chain is perfect, and there is a certain elasticity and resilience in the face of the impact of the epidemic. At the same time, the surge in demand for overseas canned food is also the reason for the rise of canned food in Zhangzhou, and at present, overseas people have been isolated at home, and canned food has become a good food reserve because of its long shelf life, convenient storage and eating habits, etc. Many cans in supermarkets have been snapped up.
The balance between supply and demand of foreign canned food is tight, and for Zhangzhou canning enterprises, the most direct performance lies in the increase in the number of orders and output.
In The Purple Mountain Group, the company currently produces more than 30,000 convenience foods and 70 to 80 tons of canned food per day, and export orders have not been affected but have increased. "None of the employees could be laid off, and the decision was made at that time." Hong Shuihe, president of Purple Mountain Group, said that now is the time when manpower is needed, and the company is producing at full capacity. Lin Dayong, general manager of Dongshan Huachang Food Co., Ltd., also brought good news, "At present, the company mainly produces canned crab meat, with a daily output of 6 tons, ready to be sold to the United States." ”
While the city's export canning enterprises have increased their production with full horsepower, Zhangzhou Customs has also made sufficient efforts to stabilize the basic foreign trade. Zhangzhou Customs collected and published temporary restrictive measures taken by other countries (regions) to export food to China due to the epidemic, strengthened analysis and judgment, provided support for services in advance, and guided enterprises to respond in advance. For export canned food enterprises that have resumed work and production, timely follow-up guidance, targeted help enterprises to improve the level of self-inspection and self-control capabilities. At the same time, the quality supervision and sampling of export cans was carried out, and a total of 18 export canned samples and 25 testing items were monitored and spot checked in the first quarter to ensure the quality of export cans.
All along, Zhangzhou production of mushrooms, lychees, sweet corn, hemp shoots, aquatic products and other canned food is deeply loved by foreign consumers, exported to Japan, Europe and the United States, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, Russia and other more than 160 countries and regions, in recent years, canned exports ranked first in the country.

Recently, on the Dongdong Dongxing aquatic products assembly line, workers are processing canned seafood. As a major agricultural product processing and export county in the country, Dongshan County has actively done a good job in the resumption of work and production of enterprises while doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, so as to ensure that epidemic prevention and resumption of work are not wrong. Photo by Lin Huayi and Yin Qi
Source: Minnan Daily - Zhangzhou News Network
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