Kedong County focuses on the natural soda industry

Qiqihar News Network, May 30, 2016 At the foot of the beautiful Jingshan Mountain, the only natural soda in the country flows.

In May, when spring was in full bloom, the reporter and his party came to Qingquan Village, Baoquan Town, Kedong County. In a secluded village, the babbling water is constantly whispering in your ears. Following the footsteps of the sound of water, an antique pavilion gradually comes into view. Under the pavilion, the spring water gushes out, forming a clear pool of water. This is the famous self-gushing spring, which is endless in winter and summer. According to legend, during the reign of the fourth emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Guanyan Liang, the stubborn disease was not cured for a long time, and after the imperial doctor diagnosed and treated it, saying that drinking holy water could cure this disease, the emperor sent people around to find holy water. After finding several water sources to drink for several months, he found more than 20 miles north of ErkeShan, and finally found holy water, drank it for several days, and recovered as before. After Yan Liang finished Yan Liang, he named this spring "Baoquan" and "Holy Spring", and baoquan Town in Kedong County was also named after it. In the territory of Kedong County, more than 30 self-gushing springs like this have been found.

Is the spring really as magical as the legend goes? Science gives reliable answers. After scientific testing by a number of domestic authoritative institutions, it was finally concluded that the mineral water in Kedong belongs to the weak alkaline natural airless soda, which contains a variety of ingredients beneficial to the human body, and some indicators are better than the natural airless soda standards of other countries, which is a rare treasure in the natural airless soda water in the world. This major discovery has made Kedong County the only underground natural airless soda belt found in China so far, and China has thus become the fifth area in the world where natural airless soda water resources have been discovered.

The generous nature has given this magical land special grace, and the industrious and wise Kedong people know how to turn this hidden treasure for thousands of years into the source of living water for the Rich People in Fuxian County.

From the first bottle of natural airless soda to Haichang, Shihanquan, Shudayuan, Shuiyifang and other 9 enterprises have been built, in the past 10 years, the thriving natural soda industry in Kedong County has grown from scratch, from weak to strong, and has embarked on an extraordinary road from blossoming everywhere, disorderly production to standardized rectification, selection of business and capital, and then to building brands and cultivating backbones.

Today, kedong county's natural soda industry generates an annual tax of nearly 10 million yuan. Beijing Junhao, the United States Yuefeng, Hong Kong Yuanzi 3 well-known enterprises also came to settle in Kedong, of which Junhao Group total investment reached 2 billion yuan, the project investment scale is large, the planning starting point is high, the construction speed is fast, creating the most kedong aquaculture project. The Huiyuan project under construction has also entered the equipment installation and commissioning stage. It can be said that the natural soda water industry in Kedong County has embarked on the road of scientific, healthy and sustainable development, and has become one of the important pillar industries for the development of the county economy.

If you don't experience wind and rain, how can you see a rainbow. At a time when the development of the natural soda water industry in Kedong County is booming, the introduction of the new "Bottled Drinking Water Standard" has brought new "challenges" to the development of the industry.

"The promulgation of the new standard has brought great challenges to the development of the natural soda industry in our county, directly affecting the use of the name 'Kedong natural soda', which will directly affect the survival and industrial development of production enterprises." Jing Hongwei, deputy county magistrate of Kedong County, told reporters that although the new national standard has a certain impact on industrial development, this is both a challenge and an opportunity.

In the face of the new national standard, Kedong County did not wait to rely on, not only reformulated the industrial development plan, successfully obtained the national geographical indication protection product certification, but also hired national water experts and provincial quality supervision bureau and other relevant departments to Kedong County for review, so that the "Geographical Indication Products Kedong Natural Soda Local Standards" was successfully filed with the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, which not only saved water enterprises to re-enter the supermarket bar code fee of more than 100 million yuan, indirectly reduced the loss of several hundred million yuan in the delisting of aquatic enterprises, and created intangible assets worth billions of yuan. It has created a source of living water for industrial development. This year, Kedong County strives to further increase the output of soda water, achieving sales income of 150 million yuan and tax of 15 million yuan; by 2020, it will achieve the production of 1.5 million tons of soda water, sales income of 3 billion yuan, and tax of 300 million yuan.

"This is our company's airless natural soda production line, with an annual output of up to 100,000 tons." Walking into Heilongjiang Haichang Biotechnology Co., Ltd., the reporter saw a long assembly line, filling, testing, capping, packing, each production link is orderly, and the workers and masters seem to be injecting new vitality into the "spring water". "We are mainly grabbing orders from January to March now, so the pressure on production is a bit large." The company's production leader told reporters that due to the impact of the "new national standard", the company had a large backlog of orders from January to March. "Now, with the help of the Kedong County Party Committee and County Government, Kedong has achieved local standards for soda water, and it is now in full production." At the beginning of April, products with geographical indications were already available. This year, our company plans to achieve sales of 60 million yuan, annual profit and tax of 4 million yuan. ”

At the same time that Kedong County Natural Soda Water obtained the geographical indication, the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce officially accepted the registration of the collective trademark "Kedong Natural Soda Water", and the water enterprises in the county realized the group to break into the market with the help of the association. Jiang Kui, chairman of the Kedong County Natural Soda Association, introduced to reporters that today, Kedong Natural Soda has gained popularity and attracted the attention of more strategic investors, from the original Cinderella to Snow White. At the end of March, the local standard of Kedong natural soda was successfully filed with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China, making Kedong the only natural soda aquatic production area in the country that can use the "special mark for geographical indication products". Moreover, in the near future, the county's enterprise Water Yifang will be successfully listed on the New Third Board, which also opens a precedent for cross-border financing of natural soda enterprises in Kedong County.

"When we first chose to invest and build a factory here, we were optimistic about Kedong's unique resources and the development prospects of the natural soda industry." In the large factory building of the Huiyuan project, the reporter saw that a number of large equipment had been installed in place, and the workers were busy with the installation and commissioning of the equipment. The project leader told reporters that the production equipment of the project is all imported from Germany, which can produce 81,000 bottles per hour, the highest speed in Asia, and the annual output can reach 300,000 tons. After all the equipment is installed, it will become the largest natural soda production line in the country. "This year, we will give full play to our mature sales network, promote Kedong natural soda water to the whole country, and occupy a certain share in the high-end drinking water market."

From being named "China's Natural Soda Water Town" to the Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Soda Water Inspection and Testing Center settled in Kedong; from the national certification of geographical indication product protection of Kedong Natural Soda Water, to the Kedong County "Natural Soda Association Standard" passed the national certification and was identified as the main natural soda water production area in China; from the planning and construction of the Uyur Natural Soda Water Industry Development Belt, to the construction of a second water source for the protection of natural soda water resources; from the first batch of 6 enterprises in Kedong County were approved for use" Geographical indication protection product special mark", to kedong natural soda association application for "kedong natural soda water" collective trademark acceptance, and then to the "geographical indication products: kedong natural soda water local standards" successfully filed with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. After countless efforts, Kedong people have made Kedong natural soda water have a number of "golden signboards", and more natural soda water has become bigger and stronger, breaking a new road, making its position as one of the three leading industries in the county more stable, and truly becoming a new engine driving the economic development of the county.