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Industrial Policy
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| Saccharin
Banned in Baby Food (Last update: 09/13/2000) |
| Recently State Economic
and Trading Committee,Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Foreign Trade Cooperation
, Ministry of Health ,State Quality and Technology Supervision Bureau ,State
Industrial & Commercial Administration and State Customs issued announcement
to strengthen the management on the production, sales and application of
saccharin. It is forbidden to add saccharin or other synthetic sweetener
in the baby food. For food allowing saccharin or other synthetic sweeteners,
it is required that the food manufacturers add them in accordance to the
food standard, controlling the dosage and label the name and quantity of
sweeteners. The future aim is to limit the application of synthetic sweeteners
in food, narrowing the scope and decrease the dosage. (Source: People's
Health News) |
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| Regulation
on New Feed & New Feed Additive (Last update: Oct 2000) |
| Ministry of Agriculture
published a regulation (No.37) on the Management of New Feed and New Feed
Additive. There are total 17 clauses in this regulation. New feed refer
to the feed that has just been researched but has not been used before,
including single component feed developed within China and single component
feed used in other areas instead of feed industry before. New feed additives
refer to those feed additives that developed in China but have not been
approved in the past. According to this regulation, the central government
encourage the research on new feed and new feed additives, on condition
of safety, efficiency, free of pollution. Before production, the researchers/producers
must submit application to Ministry of Agriculture. During the trial production
period, the producer and researchers have obligation to test the safety,
efficiency and stability of feed and feed additive. Any researchers can
not transfer the technology during the trial production. (Source: China
Chemical Industry News) |
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| Management
Method on the Registration of Import Feed and Feed Additives (Last update:
October 2000) |
| Ministry of Agriculture
published a regulation (No.38) on the Registration of Import Feed and Import
Feed Additive. There are total 23 clauses in this regulation. According
to this regulation, any foreign enterprise who want to sell feed or feed
additive must apply the license from Ministry of Agriculture. The valid
period for license is 5 years. Before registration, the applicant must provide
feed test result and safety test result. Those feed and feed additives that
are allowed to sell in China but are proved to be harmful to human health,
feed animal or environment will be canceled from the registration. The foreign
manufacturers must pay the lost consequently. (Source: China Chemical Industry
News) |
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| II.
News Collection |
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| Soybean Protein
Active Peptide by Biological Method (Last update: Dec 2000) |
| Heilongjiang Light
Industry Research Institute cooperates with Heilongjiang Jianglong Hongyuan
Co. Ltd. to extract active peptide from soybean by fermentation method.
The production line of 5,000MT/year of soybean protein active peptide has
been set up at the same time and the commercial production began recently.
(Chemical Technology Market) |
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| Nucleic Acid Production
Base in Putian (Last update: Dec 2000) |
| Fujian Zhen'ao Nucleic
Acid Co. Ltd. has been set up in Fujian Putian. The commercial production
began recently. It is expected that the production of nucleic acid in the
first year will be 200MT/year. In the future, this company will further
invest RMB 410 million to the nucleic acid project. The commercial product
is expected to supply the southern China and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
(Source: Chemical Technology Market) |
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| Nucleic
Acid Facility in Zibo (Last update: Dec 2000) |
| The production line
of nucleic acid with capacity of 3,000MT/year has been set up in Shandong
Zibo Baoding Biological Engineering Co. Ltd. The commercial product is qualified.
(Source: Chemical Technology Market) |
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| Food
Grade Carbon Dioxide Project in Tianjin (Last update: 11/22/2000) |
| The largest production
line of food grade carbon dioxide, with capacity of 30,000MT/year, has been
set up in Tianjin United Chemical Co. Ltd. They use the waste gas from production
of glycol to make food grade CO2. It is estimated that the production cost
is only 70% that from oversea manufacturers. (Source: China Chemical Industry
News) |
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| State Dairy
Engineering Technology Center in Harbin (Last update: 11/10/2000) |
| The State Dairy Engineering
Technology Center was set up in Harbin recently. It is based on Heilongjiang
Dairy Engineering Technology Center and Heilongjiang Dairy Industry Group.
The total investment for this center is RMB28.73 million. This is the unique
dairy research center in China that focus on research, test, training, engineering
technology, equipment installation and dairy manufacturing. (Source: China
Chemical Industry News) |
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| Angel
Enlarges Yeast Production (Last update: Oct 2000) |
| Being a listed company
in Shanghai Stock, Angel Yeast Co. Ltd. decides to invest RMB180 million
to build production line of ban yeast (10,000MT/year), active dry yeast
(3,000MT/year) and special yeast (2,000MT/year). After enlargement, the
total yeast capacity in Angel company will be 25,000MT/year. It is reported
that the construction already began. (Source: Domestic Medicine News Collection) |
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| A Bight
Prospect for Canned Foods Industry (Last update: 10/17/2000) |
| With the improvement
on the living standard of Chinese people and the ever fasting life rhythm,
the consumption of the instant foods will increase in the future.It is estimated
that by 2005 the consumption on canned food will be 2kg per capita per year.
But at present the Chinese consumption is only 1kg per capita per year.
Now there are 500 large enterprises in China to produce canned food. The
annual production is nearly 3 million MT, 0.8 million MT of them are exported.
(Source: China Food Quality News) |
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| Domestic Beverage
Manufacturers Catch Over Half of Chinese Market (Last update: 09/27/2000) |
| News from Xinhua shows
that the production of beverage from the top ten manufacturers is 3.4 million
MT per year, accounting to 45.18% of the total production in China. In 1999,
the profit from the top ten manufacturer amounts to 65.09% of the total
profit of beverage industry. It signifies that these big Chinese manufacturers
have occupied more and more market in China. The top ten manufacturers include
Guangdong Roburst Group, Hangzhou Wahaha Group, etc. (Source: International
Economic & Trading News) |
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| The
Adjust of Saccharin Industry Speed Up (Last update: October 2000) |
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The China government
has a strong decision to close down some saccharin factories. China decides
to adjust the saccharin industry within one year, 2 years ahead of the
schedule. State Petroleum and Chemical Bureau held meeting recently, calling
the 14 saccharin manufacturers in China(9 of them are required to stop
the production), in order to make plan for the future of saccharin industry.
The industrial adjustment
will follow in three stages:1) To control the production to within 24,000Mt
in 2000; 2) To figure out the stretagy to close 10 saccharin factories;
3) To figure out the management method for industry and market of saccharin.
All the saccharin exported must get permission from MEHECO Commerce Committee
and Custom. All the rest saccharin are regarded as for domestic application.
Note: Why China
takes strong steps toward saccharin production? To close a factory
with saccharin capacity of 3,000Mt/year means the following: 1) about
1,000 employees in the saccharin factory will lost job; 2) about RMB70
million of asset is idled; 3) About 1.35 million Mt sugar market will
be resumed;4)about 56 sugar factories will survive (each with cane processing
capacity of 2,000Mt/day; 5)about 56,000 working position is offered; 6)
about 670,000 peasant will favorite from the cane plantation; 7) total
output value will increase RMB4 billions; 8) total profit will increase
by RMB430 millions. (Source: State Economy & Trading Committee, cnchemicals.com)
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| Sugar
Price Comes to Reasonable (Last update: October 2000) |
| After the roaring price
in the first half year, the price of sugar come to be stable recently. Now
the price of sugar in production areas is around RMB3,600-3,650/Mt. The
price in sales areas is abont RMB3,850-3,900/Mt. The main reasons for the
roaring price in the first half year is that the sugar output in the spring
season is less than 6.8 million Mt. The China once released the state stock
of sugar to calm the roar. It is expected that the price will further decrease
to RMB3,400-3,500/Mt in the near future. The China government decides to
closed about 150 sugar manufacturers in the next seasons, cutting about
2.735 million Mt of sugar out of capacity. In the future, the main sugar
production areas cover Guangxi, Yunan, Guangdong, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia
and Heilongjiang (Source: China Food Quality News). |
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| Sugar
Enterprises in Gansu Province will Close Down (Last update: Sept 2000)
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| News from State Light
Industry Bureau says that all the sugar enterprises in Gansu Provinces will
stop production this year. The State Light Industry Bureau made this decision
on the balance of the overall sugar supply in China. So far the production
capacity of sugar is estimated to be over 11 million Mt per year. The Chinese
government will control the actual production of sugar to within 8 million
Mt per year. After the close down, the demanded 0.12 million Mt of sugar
from Gansu province can be satisfied by the sugar from other provinces.
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