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China's food industry continues steady profit growth

January 18, 2021


Abstract : China's major food processing companies recorded combined profits of 535.96 billion yuan (about 82.92 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 11 months of 2020, up 6.8 percent year on year, official data showed.

BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's major food processing companies recorded combined profits of 535.96 billion yuan (about 82.92 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 11 months of 2020, up 6.8 percent year on year, official data showed.

Profit growth at these enterprises, whose annual revenues exceed 20 million yuan from their main operations, was 4.4 percentage points higher than that of all industrial sectors, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

In breakdown, agricultural and sideline products processing companies reported 169.35 billion yuan in combined profits, up 8.9 percent year on year, while that of liquor, beverage and tea manufacturers rose 5.6 percent year on year to 208.02 billion yuan, MIIT data showed.

In November 2020, retail sales of beverage jumped 21.6 percent year on year, while that of grain, oil and food commodities went up 7.7 percent.

Combined profits of China's major food processing companies climbed 9.4 percent year on year to 485.26 billion yuan in the first 10 months of 2020. Enditem

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