In recent years, China's dairy industry has achieved rapid development, and various indicators such as output, quality, and equipment level have been steadily improved. The leading dairy enterprises represented by Yili have laid out the innovation chain around the industrial chain, solved the technical bottleneck of the whole industrial chain, promoted the upgrading of "digital intelligence", and continuously enhanced the core competitiveness of China's dairy industry.
At present, China is integrating scientific and technological innovation resources and accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces. Standing at a new starting point and facing new opportunities, Yili is accelerating the realization of a new leap in productivity, promoting China's dairy industry to a more innovative, efficient and sustainable development path, and injecting strong new momentum into China's dairy industry, which is "growing from big to strong".
"Full-chain" innovation enhances the core competitiveness of the dairy industry
Recently, Yili Co., Ltd. released the third quarter report for 2023. During the reporting period, the company's innovation achievements were accelerated, a number of new health products were listed, and positive feedback from the market was received, and the company's revenue and net profit also hit a record high, with a total operating income of 974 in the first three quarters0.4 billion yuan, net profit of 1636% growth, core operating capabilities continue to improve.
Behind the impressive report card, it is inseparable from the accumulation of Yili Group in taking innovation as an important development strategy for many years. Relying on the world's leading innovation system, Yili lays out the innovation chain around the industrial chain, forms an innovation link of "from a grass to a cup of milk", solves the technical bottleneck of the whole industrial chain, accelerates the transformation and application of technological achievements, and continuously enhances the core competitiveness of China's dairy industry.
Yili has built the world's leading core dairy breeding farm, successfully cultivated the top breeding bulls in China, created a historic breakthrough in the international stage of Chinese breeding cattle, and 5 breeding bulls, including the champion breeding bulls, entered the top 10 in China.
At the same time, Yili took the lead in developing the wrapping silage technology in China, so that all the alfalfa indicators in the first crop of 2023 will reach the excellent grade and above. Yili cultivates high-quality, high-yield, and high-conversion forage varieties, driving the cultivation of more than 4.2 million mu of forage across the country, and providing high-quality forage guarantee for dairy farming.
In the field of product research and development, Yili's scientific research team continues to explore advanced technologies to meet the diversified nutritional needs of consumers and escort health.
Industry insiders said that active lactoferrin, as an active nutrient in milk, has a high technical threshold and difficult process, which is a difficult problem in the industry. Through 16 years of research and accumulation, Yili has realized the world's innovative lactoferrin directional extraction and protection technology, and increased the retention rate of pure milk lactoferrin at room temperature from 10% to over 90%. Yili's lactoferrin plant in New Zealand has started construction this year, and after it is completed and put into operation, it will promote Yili to rank among the top three lactoferrin production capacity in the world.
Years of accumulation and continuous innovation at the level of technology research and development have not only allowed the company to form a technology-led competitive advantage, but also created new technological productivity for the high-quality development of the industry.
"Digital intelligence" upgrade to create a new engine for the high-quality development of the dairy industry.
In addition to the comprehensive innovation of technology and products, as a leading dairy enterprise in Asia, Yili's full-chain digital intelligence is enabling the dairy industry to get rid of the traditional growth path and accelerate its high-quality development.
In the upstream, Yili has created a sustainable development model of organic recycling, and has continuously extended its practical experience to more pastures across the country, providing a solid "backing" for the green and low-carbon development of the dairy industry.
Among them, the Eilechuan Ecological Smart Ranch, located in Yili's Modern Smart Health Valley, is a modern ranch that represents the world's leading technological level. As one of the ranches built to support the production capacity of Yili's modern smart health valley, this ranch with a total investment of 700 million yuan and a total area of about 11,250 acres is not only a world-leading ranch with a leading degree of intelligence and low-carbon environmental protection technology, but also a high-yield ranch built with the world's leading embryonic technology, as well as a world-class green ecological sightseeing ranch.
In the midstream, Yili has realized the intelligent layout of all factories in the country, and has comprehensively improved productivity and doubled production efficiency through digital and intelligent empowerment.
In the global intelligent manufacturing benchmark base of Yili Health Valley liquid milk, the palletizing robotic arm rotates flexibly, the A** unmanned car intelligently avoids obstacles and travels smoothly, and the world's first-class warehousing system intelligently manages ......The base can process 6,500 tons of raw milk per day, and is the first factory in the global dairy industry to introduce the world's faster, filling 40,000 bags per hour, and the milk produced every day can fully meet the daily milk demand of cities with a population of 10 million. With an annual production capacity of 60,000 tons, Yili Milk Powder Global Intelligent Manufacturing Benchmark Base is currently the world's leading high-end infant formula milk powder production base with first-class technology and advanced digital intelligence, and has become the vanguard leading the revitalization of the dairy industry.
At the same time, Yili also vigorously promotes the digital operation of consumers with "all domains, all scenarios, and all life cycles", and builds a big data radar covering more than 400 data sources. Developed with 1The intelligent insight system of 500 million consumers** collaborative and co-created products can complete market insights in an average of 3 and a half days. Yili-GPT, the industry's leading GPT application product launched by Yili, continuously provides consumers with more diversified consumption experience through machine learning Xi, operation research optimization, and intelligent interaction.
Future-proofing Accelerate the leap in dairy productivity
Yili has never stopped on the road of innovation. Standing at a new starting point and facing new opportunities, Yili is accelerating the realization of a new leap in productivity and promoting China's dairy industry to a more innovative, efficient and sustainable development path.
Industry insiders pointed out that the new quality productivity represents a kind of leap in productivity, which is a productivity that has got rid of the traditional growth path and meets the requirements of high-quality development, and is a productivity that is more integrated and reflects the new connotation in the digital era. The proposal of new quality productivity not only means to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, but also reflects the initiative to build new competitive advantages and win development with industrial upgrading.
Pan Gang, Chairman and President of Yili Group, recently said at the 2023 Yili Leadership Summit that the country proposes to "accelerate the formation of new quality productivity" and accelerate industrial upgrading and economic growth through scientific and technological innovation. The dairy industry should also accelerate a new leap in productivity and push China's dairy industry towards a more innovative, efficient and sustainable development path. This is not only a practical need, but also a future direction.
Pan Gang believes that it is necessary to seize the new opportunities brought about by the development of the digital economy, take scientific and technological innovation as the guide, and take talent development as the support to continue to promote the integration of digital intelligence and green development of the whole industry chain.
To form a new quality of productive forces, it is necessary to rely on science and technology and innovation. Over the years, Yili Group has taken innovation as an important strategy to drive the development of the enterprise, and has built 15 innovation centers in Europe, Oceania, Southeast Asia and other places. The National Dairy Technology Innovation Center, led by Yili, is headquartered in Yili Modern Smart Health Valley, Hohhot, and is home to China's leading high-end dairy think tank. Yili, together with other co-construction units, is committed to exploring a path of high-quality development of the dairy industry with Chinese characteristics through independent scientific and technological innovation, seizing the commanding heights of global industrial technological innovation, and building a dairy technology innovation hub with global influence.
While building new competitiveness, we must also build lasting momentum. At present, Yili is innovating the whole life cycle environmental management model, actively building a "zero-carbon industrial chain", striving to achieve carbon neutrality in the whole industry chain by 2050, and working with global dairy partners to build a sustainable development ecosystem.
As the first enterprise in the industry to release the "dual carbon" goal and roadmap, Yili is the first enterprise in the industry to have the ability of independent carbon inventory, and the leading "zero-carbon factory" in China's food industry, "zero-carbon milk", "zero-carbon milk powder", "zero-carbon carbonated milk" and "zero-carbon ice cream" were also born in Yili. 31 subsidiaries of Yili have obtained the "Green Factory" certification, the total number of which ranks among the top in the industry, and the coverage rate of carbon footprint accounting of the five series of products has reached 100%. At the same time, upgrade the carton materials and processes, optimize the plastic packaging structure, realize the lightweight packaging, and reduce carbon emissions.
In addition, the leap in dairy productivity also requires international exchanges and collaborative cooperation in biological breeding, forage planting, dairy farming, standardized production and other aspects of the whole chain of the industrial chain, so as to enhance the advantages of high-quality provenance in the dairy industry, improve high-quality forage, and build a high-standard and high-quality milk source base.
Thickness is better than speed, industry prosperity is better than individual brilliance, and social value is greater than commercial wealth. "Over the years, Yili has established large-scale dairy industry cluster projects in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and added new industrial investment in other provinces, continuously building and improving the functions of the industrial chain, and realizing the efficiency of industrial agglomeration. Yili also gives full play to the advantages of technology, management and capital of leading enterprises, forms a community of benefit sharing and risk sharing with farmers and herdsmen through the "interest connection mechanism", and leads farmers and herdsmen to increase their income and get rich together through the empowerment of the industrial chain and the cultivation of rural talents. As of the end of September this year, Erie was 1More than 20,000 industrial chain partners have provided financial support, with a cumulative financing amount of nearly 140 billion yuan.
From the grassland to the international reputation, Yili has become a shining business card of China's dairy industry, and while its own development and growth, it is also sparing no effort to promote the comprehensive development of economy and society, directly and indirectly driving the linkage development of dozens of related industries, and creating millions of jobs for the society.
At present, Yili is providing consumers with higher quality products and services, creating new momentum for the high-quality development of the industry, and cultivating new advantages for China's dairy industry in global competition. In the future, Yili will continue to adhere to the guidance of "scientific and technological innovation", improve the level of digital intelligence of the whole chain, accelerate the green transformation, realize the continuous inheritance of talents and the integrated development of the industry, lead the industry to promote a new leap in productivity, and provide new competitiveness and lasting power for high-quality economic development.