China News, Liuzhou, June 26th, Zhu Liurong reports “China Sugar Industry Investment Development Forum” is held in Liuzhou, Guangxi, more than 400 officials, experts and professionals took part and analyzed issues regarding sugar industry development.
This forum is jointly sponsored by Guangxi sugar wholesale market Co., Ltd, China Sugar Association, China Federation of logistics and purchasing as well as Zhongnongwang. Sugar industry investment keynote speech, “Industry Talk” sugar industry salon, “Summit meeting” Dialogue Salon were held during the event.
Guangxi sugar wholesale market Co., Ltd chairman Hu Shike suggested in his keynote speech“collaborative construction, financial innovation in future, relying on the industry chain vertical electric business to upgrade sugar ecosystem“ that due to small-scale peasant economy, extensive production, disappearance of demographic dividend, low degree of mechanization and automation conditions, planting, cutting, pressing, management, marketing, circulation costs kept high, products and the week competitiveness of enterprises, high cost, low profit, financing difficulties and other pain points emerged, which “doubled the pain” under impart of sugar import and smuggling.
Hu Shike said, the pain which sugar industry came across, after all is the imbalance of industrial structure and ecology. Fundamentally defeat depends on industry coordination and upgrading of sugar industry ecosystem. Relying on the industry chain vertical e-commerce, establish “integrated, collaborative, open, sharing” interoperable and integration development relationship, and revert the separated situation to a “competition and cooperation, independent and open” positive ecological pattern.
Louis Vosges Geneva global sugar Department general manager Antoine made the speech “global sugar market changes caused by supply pattern conversion”, he analyzed in detail the factor of latter part market changes from international sugar production, consumption, China′s state reserve situation.Deputy director of Guangxi sugar industry development office Qiu Dong suggested in his speech that sugar is an important strategic material related to the national economy and people′s livelihood, China is the world′s second largest sugar importer and consumer with the greatest potential. Guangxi sugar production accounts for more than 60% of the total output of China, about 200 million people are involved in sugar farmers, industrial workers count for more than 100 thousand people. Sugar cane planting income becomes an important income source for sugar farmer, during "Twelfth Five Year Plan" period, Guangxi sugarcane farmers annual income reached 282.7 million yuan, accounting for about 40% of total planting revenue, Guangxi can′t afford to lose sugar industry and its associated advantage.
Qiu Dong said that at present, Guangxi has promulgated the “Views on promoting sustainable sugar industry development in our region", “Guangxi sugar industry second entrepreneurship scheme (2015, 2020) “ and a series of policy. By the end of "Thirteenth Five Year Plan”, Guangxi sugar industry will further enhance the comprehensive competitiveness and utilization level, sugar cycle economy will be basically formed, 500 acres of "high production and high sugar level”sugar base will be built; 3-5 200 million tons sugar producing company will be set up; China Sugar Industry Cultural Industry Park will be formed, China′s largest sugar spot trading platform will be built.
According to reports, due to oversupply, from 2011 to 2014 Chinese sugar prices experienced a wave of a bear market, spot price were sagging, sugar manufacturing industry experienced great losses. As prices rebound since September 2014, the state sugar industry implemented various preferential policies, the domestic sugar market is gradually warming up, the spot price rises from close to 4000 yuan / ton to the current 5700 yuan / ton.