The "technological engine" of Shandong's grain and oil industry

Shandong is a major province in grain production, circulation and consumption, and it is also a province with a strong grain industry economy. The total industrial output value exceeded 400 billion yuan in 2018 and reached 450 billion yuan in 2020. Thousands of companies are engaged in grain production. Distribution, wheat flour, edible oil and other production capacities lead the country.

Behind the high-quality development of the grain industry is Shandong Province’s emphasis on scientific and technological innovation in the grain industry. In accordance with the overall deployment of the State Administration of Grain and Material Reserves to "promote grain through science and technology" and "promote grain through talent", the Shandong Provincial Grain and Material Reserve Bureau focuses on industry needs, strengthens policy support, and accelerates technology research and development, so that the scientific and technological innovation vitality of the province's grain industry continues to increase. Accelerate the integration of industry, academia and research, and use science and technology as the driving force to promote the upgrading and development of the grain and oil industry.

The platform strengthens production and injects lasting vitality

From a new perspective, the Shandong Provincial Grain and Material Reserves Bureau integrates new concepts, new technologies, and new business formats in informatization, digitization, and networking. In-depth integration with grain production, storage, and sales. In early 2019, the Provincial Grain and Material Reserves Bureau signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Alibaba, marking the province's grain industry being equipped with a "smart brain." In the same year, the "Haoliangyouwang" smart trading platform was launched to realize full-process transactions. At present, nearly 400 companies have settled on the platform and more than 5,000 products are listed on the platform. During the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, "Haoliangyouwang" organized grain and oil processing enterprises across the province to donate a total of 45 tons of high-quality grain and oil, further increasing its social influence.

In order to promote the digital transformation of the traditional grain industry, the Shandong Provincial Grain and Material Reserves Bureau actively promotes various entities in the purchase, storage, and marketing of grain production to use the Internet for upstream and downstream collaboration. Focusing on innovative applications in the entire production and operation chain of grain enterprises, including raw grain procurement, sales ordering, quality traceability, and logistics collaboration, the first Shandong Province Grain Industry Internet Innovation Competition was organized to provide enterprises with fully digital management solutions. Taking the Dezhou Fada Flour Group as a pilot and applying the raw grain purchase module, Shandong's grain industry has realized various operations such as online publishing of corporate needs, online reservations for cargo owners to sell grain, and online delivery of orders by drivers. This function has been online for 5 months, and 600,000 tons of raw grain transactions have been completed, with a transaction volume of 1.5 billion yuan, and 30,000 logistics transportation trips, 94 of which were self-booked.

In 2021, the Shandong Grain Industry Internet Platform will use artificial intelligence applications as its innovation point to create fully digital application scenarios for the entire industry and the entire chain, providing new momentum to improve the development quality of the grain industry and better ensure food security. .

Talents promote production and cultivate new highlands for development

In 2018, the Provincial Grain and Material Reserves Bureau worked with relevant departments to formulate the "Implementation Opinions on Vigorously Promoting Science and Technology to Promote Grain and Talents to Promote Grain" , innovate talent training, improve mechanisms and systems, optimize the talent development environment, and provide scientific and technological support and talent guarantee to promote the conversion of new and old driving forces in the grain industry, promote rural revitalization, and accelerate the construction of a strong province in the grain industry. The Binzhou Municipal Government has included scientific and technological innovation work in the "Three-Year Action Plan for Building a National Grain Industry Integration Circular Economy Demonstration Zone (2018-2020)"; many leading grain and oil processing companies in the province have successively cooperated with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the National Grain and The Material Reserve Science Research Institute, China Food Fermentation Industry Research Institute, China Agricultural University, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other scientific research institutes have established long-term cooperative relationships and become a model for technology-driven industry development.

Since 2019, the province’s grain and oil industry has carried out more than 30 training sessions of various types, with a total of more than 10,000 people trained; it has established the country’s first brand research institute and organized high-level talent training courses with Alibaba ; Business Vocational College actively plays the role of a demonstration high-skilled talent training base in the national grain and material reserve industry, with an average annual training and appraisal of more than 5,000 people; Qingdao has formulated the "Medium and Long-term Plan for Talent Team Construction" and "Dual-Sequence Career Development Channel Management Measures" ; Dongying has built three major talent cultivation and R&D innovation platforms, including the "National Grain Industry Top Skills Talent Studio", "Municipal Chief Technician Workstation" and "Grain Quality Testing and R&D Central Laboratory". The Luliang Group Doctoral Workstation was unveiled, and talent momentum accelerated form.

In recent years, the Shandong Provincial Grain and Material Reserves Bureau has taken a number of measures to select top talents in the industry. The three major national grain processing industry technology innovation centers for wheat, corn and soybeans adopt flexible methods to introduce talents. In 2020 alone, 11 high-level talents were introduced flexibly and 11 cooperation agreements were signed. In 2019, the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions and other five departments organized the fifth provincial grain industry vocational skills competition; selected 10 outstanding contestants to participate in the fifth national grain industry professional skills competition, and won "three golds, five silvers and one The best result in history was "Bronze"; the selection of skilled talents was carried out, and 10 people were awarded the top skills in the national grain industry; the "Skills Competition Month" was set up in the Business Vocational College, and more than 60 skills competitions were held. In the future, the Shandong Provincial Grain and Material Reserves Bureau will continue to adhere to the strategy of "talents to develop grain" and cultivate and reserve more professional talents for the development of the grain industry.

Science and technology promotes industry, innovation and upgrading add vitality

Science and technology promotes industry, and the upgrading and development of Shandong's grain and oil industry illustrates this well. In recent years, Shandong has vigorously promoted the transformation of scientific research results in the grain and oil industry. In 2019, the province's grain industry obtained 55 basic results, 1 national-level scientific research result, and 2 provincial-level scientific research results. Luhua Group and Yuhuang Group won three provincial science and technology progress awards. The newly developed black peanut oil, fresh fruit peanut oil and other products have filled many gaps in the domestic oil field. The contribution rate of scientific and technological progress to peanut production reached 75%. In 2018, wheat The three major national grain processing industry technology innovation centers of corn, corn and soybeans have settled in Shandong. Up to now, the three major industrial technology innovation centers have applied for 61 patents. The province's grain industry has 84 scientific and technological innovation platforms at or above the provincial level, with annual R&D investment. More than 2 billion yuan. The Business Vocational College has obtained 211 research project approvals within 5 years, ranking among the top vocational colleges in Shandong. We have vigorously promoted the application of new scientific grain storage technologies, built 590,000 square meters of magnesite panels, 7.08 million tons of low-temperature and quasi-low temperature storage capacity, and 3.52 million tons of internal circulation application storage capacity. The level of scientific grain storage has been continuously improved.

The emphasis on scientific and technological research and development has brought real benefits to all links in the grain industry chain. In 2020, the Provincial Grain and Material Reserves Bureau and the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences reached a strategic cooperation to establish the "Qilu Grain and Oil" production and research incubation center. The establishment of the production and research incubation center gathered the elite power of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It is the first public brand production and research center in the national grain industry, creating a new model for grain industry development and brand building. Leveraging the influence and scientific research strength of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, we gathered the wisdom of 33 think tank experts to conduct research on improving the rate of high-quality grain products, construction of planting bases, quality traceability services, and terminal product research and development, offering wise words and pragmatism. The strategy is to make the industry-research incubation center more down-to-earth, use intelligence to help build the "Qilu Cereals and Oils" brand, and strive to promote industrial development, increase enterprise efficiency, and increase farmers' income.

In the next step, in accordance with the unified deployment of the National Grain and Material Reserves Bureau, Shandong Province will continue to work hard to develop scientific and technological talents to develop grain and reserve, and highlight the important use of "high-quality grain projects". Stimulate the innovation vitality of enterprises, highlight the leading role of the platform, continue to focus on scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the construction of talent teams in the province's grain and material reserve industry, highlight the cultivation of industry professionals, and drive the grain and oil industry to achieve rapid leaps with the ultimate pursuit of science and technology. (Contributed by: Party Committee of the Organ directly under the Provincial Grain and Reserves Bureau)