Drive high-quality development of the industry with technological innovation

Our reporter Yang Xiaojing

During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, China's flavor and fragrance industry maintained a healthy and sustainable development trend

During the 13th Five-Year Plan, the market size has grown steadily

During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, according to the incomplete statistics of the China Fragrance, Flavor and Cosmetics Industry Association, the domestic production of fragrances in 2020 will be about 218,000 tons, and the sales will be about 16.

At present, China's flavor and fragrance industry is in a critical period of industrial structure transformation and upgrading, transformation of development mode, and from the pursuit of speed growth to high-quality growth

The "Planning" pointed out that during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the scale of China's flavor and fragrance market has grown steadily

During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the agglomeration development of China's flavor and fragrance industry has been further strengthened, and more emphasis has been placed on green, coordinated and sustainable development, and the degree of internationalization has continued to strengthen

However, there are still some problems in the whole industry, such as weak basic research on common features, lack of core competitiveness in new product development and application; intellectual property protection, low-end disorderly competition; disorderly expansion and repeated construction of traditional advantageous varieties; heavy regulatory pressure and lack of scientific Regulatory measures; production and operation costs are rising, and corporate efficiency is declining; international competition is becoming increasingly fierce, and the impact of "double squeezing" is emerging; some emerging subdivisions and application areas have imperfect standards

At present, China's spice and flavor industry is in the shifting period of structural adjustment, and the transformation and upgrading and transformation of the development mode have become the turning point of the industry

The "14th Five-Year Plan" industry deepens the transformation and upgrading

The "Planning" clarifies that the development of the fragrance and flavor industry during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period should be based on the implementation of the overall layout of China's ecological civilization construction and green development.

Continue to improve the product structure, increase the market supply of natural flavors produced by white biotechnology, and natural flavors prepared by enzymatic hydrolysis/enzymatic reaction, and improve the market supply of natural extracts, natural flavors prepared by soft chemical processes, and natural flavor products of different specifications.

Taking the creation of the domestic cycle of the flavor and fragrance industry as the central node, combined with the "Belt and Road" initiative, optimize the structure of export flavor and fragrance products, expand the export scale of advantageous products, increase the proportion of natural flavor and fragrance exports, and improve the international trade level of the flavor and fragrance industry

The "Plan" also puts forward a series of safeguard policies and measures: attach importance to industrial safety and vigorously develop the national flavor industry; formulate reasonable and effective export tax rebate policies for some raw materials or intermediate products required for synthetic flavors; attach importance to scientific and technological innovation, and increase R&D investment support Policies; attach importance to standard construction and improve product quality; attach importance to intellectual property rights and increase innovation protection; attach importance to scientific and effective supervision and avoid "one size fits all" management; attach importance to the training of professional and skilled personnel, and speed up the reserve of high-quality talents; attach importance to the role of industry organizations and strengthen Industry platform construction

To sum up, the flavor and fragrance industry has a high degree of correlation with downstream industries, high technology content, and very distinctive industry characteristics.

　　"China Food News" (December 27, 2021 06 edition)

　　(Editor-in-charge: Yang Xiaojing)