During the 8th Silk Expo, on September 21, the high-quality development and investment promotion conference of rice fat millet was held in Xi'an. Zhang Xiaoguang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Chang Jiang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xi'an Shiyou University, Ren Buxue, Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Wen Jiangcheng, Deputy Director of the Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau, Zhang Zhehao, Director of the Shaanxi Reporter Station of Guangming Daily, Bai Guangliang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Xi'an National Version Museum, Liang Wei, Vice President of Shaanxi Daily, and municipal leaders Xu Gang, Chang Shaohai, Shen Xiaogong, Gao Huaihe, etc. attended the meeting.
Zhang Xiaoguang said in his speech that Yulin is located in the gold planting belt of small grains at 38 degrees north latitude and is one of the core producing areas of high-quality millet in China. In recent years, the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have issued a series of policies and measures to support the high-quality development of the millet industry, and coordinated the promotion of improved breeding, base construction, product research and development, deep processing, warehousing and logistics. Up to now, the city's millet planting area is close to 1 million mu, with an annual output of more than 130,000 tons, and 2 parks above the provincial level and 42 leading enterprises have been built to integrate millet planting, processing, sales and research and development, forming an industrial cluster with an annual output value of more than 1 billion yuan. He sincerely welcomes entrepreneurs and friends to come to Yulin for investigation and research, investment and business, share opportunities, start a new journey of innovation and entrepreneurship, and create a better future of mutual benefit and win-win.
At the meeting, experts and scholars such as Diao Xianmin, researcher of the Institute of Crop Science of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, chief scientist of the National Millet Sorghum Industrial Technology System, and director of the National Millet Variety Identification Committee, made exchange speeches on the high-quality development of rice fat millet; Three companies including Mizhi County Agricultural Ecological Poverty Alleviation Investment Co., Ltd. signed a rice fat millet supply and marketing agreement with five companies including COFCO Rice Industry (Ningxia) Co., Ltd.; Mizhi County signed investment promotion cooperation projects with 17 companies including Guoneng Shaanxi Hydropower Co., Ltd., with a total investment of 3.418 billion yuan.
It is understood that since the release of the regional public brand of "rice fat millet" in 2023, the premium rate of the "rice fat millet" brand has reached 66.67%, becoming the most influential regional public brand of millet cereals in Yulin City, driving the planting area of millet cereals in the city to reach 3.5 million mu, and developing into a 10 billion yuan millet cereal industry. In the next step, Mizhi County will anchor the high-quality development goal of the whole industrial chain of rice and millet (coarse grains), and make every effort to build a demonstration county for the development of the whole chain of the national coarse grain industry and the largest millet (coarse grains) distribution center in the country.
