What Is the Sugar Industry?

The sugar industry is the basic industry of the food industry, and it is also a raw material industry for various products such as papermaking, chemical industry, fermentation, medicine, building materials, furniture, etc., and plays an important role in the national economy.

Sugar industry

The sugar industry is a highly mechanized, continuous modern production industry, and its raw product is what we usually call sugar . Its production process includes almost all major chemical units. It is a food production enterprise with a comprehensive chemical unit production process, but its production scale is incomparable to other food production and processing enterprises. The sugar plant uses it for daily production. Raw materials, materials, and products and by-products are calculated in kilotons.

In 1802, Germany established the world's first beet sugar factory in Kunene and created the beet sugar industry. After more than 200 years of development, with the increasing technological and technological requirements of the sugar industry, the requirements for sugar manufacturing equipment have become higher and higher. Due to the weak foundation of the sugar industry in China and insufficient technological input, there is still a certain gap between the level of production technology and equipment compared with developed countries, especially in terms of large-scale production, equipment development and automation.

The sugar industry is one of the industries with severe organic pollution in the light industry.

The "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period is the golden period for the development of China's sugar industry. The state has adopted a series of policies and measures to promote the adjustment of the industry structure, ensure the effective supply of the sugar market, and increase the income of farmers in the main sugar producing areas. The data show that in five years, the total sugar output was 58.81 million tons, an increase of 14.29 million tons and an increase of 32% over the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period. 10,000 tons, an increase of 31.6%. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, China's net sugar imports were 5.68 million tons, an increase of 990,000 tons over the previous five years. From the perspective of sales revenue, during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the industry market size showed a volatile upward trend, and the overall scale continued to expand. In 2010, industry sales reached 66.363 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.57%.

However, China's sugar production has been reduced for three consecutive years in 2008/2009, 2009/2010, and 2011/2012. This coincides with the global sugar reduction cycle. As one of the world's largest sugar producing and consuming countries, China faces greater supply and demand pressures, resulting in The price of sugar has skyrocketed. Starting from a low of 3,000 yuan / ton in 2008, the price has increased by 2.5 times in three years. The skyrocketing sugar prices have had a significant impact on the upstream planting industry, the intermediate processing industry, and the downstream food and beverage industry. More and more strong sugar demand has encountered a bottleneck in sugar production; in order to meet domestic demand, the country has imported a considerable amount of foreign sugar to make up gap.

In addition, the regional layout of the industry's sugar industry has been further optimized. The trend of sugar production shifting to the western region has been obvious, and the concentration of production has continued to increase. From the perspective of regional structure, sugar production in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan, Heilongjiang, and Xinjiang in the main sugar-producing areas accounted for 98% of the total national output. Through regional structural adjustments, first, some regions that are not suitable for the development of sugar production will gradually withdraw from the sugar industry, such as Ningxia, Jilin, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Hubei and other provinces; second, some old production areas such as Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Some sugar factories with high asset-liability ratios and severe losses in Hebei, Fujian, Jiangxi, Sichuan and other provinces have closed down and bankrupted.The third is the small scale of bankruptcy and closed bankruptcy in key sugar-producing provinces such as Guangxi, Yunnan, Zhanjiang City, and Xinjiang Autonomous Region Sugar factories with long-term losses and hopes to turn losses into losses and polluting seriously, while encouraging advantageous enterprises to expand their scale and improve their technological level.