A planned food industrial park broke ground on April 12 in Jingjiang city – a county-level city of Taizhou city, in East China's Jiangsu province – that is projected to cost 600 million yuan ($82.9 million).
The groundbreaking ceremony for the planned food industrial park is held in Jingjiang. [Photo/WeChat account: jingjiangfabu]
The industrial park is being funded by a Beijing-based network technology company and Jiyang Food Co Ltd, a local backbone enterprise based in Jingjiang's Xilai town.
On a site covering an area of about 100 mu (6.67 hectares), the floorspace of the buildings will total 82,000 square meters and the park will feature automated production lines whose equipment is powered by intelligent technology.
The goal is for the complex to become a standardized healthy snack production base that also offers distribution and logistics services. The other aim is for it to be a benchmark food industrial park in Jiangsu and even the country.
At full capacity, the park will produce 60,000 tons of snack food, generating annual sales of 1.2 billion yuan and annual profit.
According to a statement made at the groundbreaking ceremony, the development zone and the town will join hands to help establish a source area for high-end foods – as well as a cluster of noted brands and new products with more follow-up services and supervision.