With the end of the Spring Festival holiday, the liquor supporting enterprises in Renhuai City have resumed work and production, showing great vitality. On March 3, according to today's Renhuai WeChat *** report, Renhuai City's liquor packaging materials and production enterprises are fully resuming production, orderly guiding enterprises to seize orders, expand sales channels, and busy production, so as to make a good start and take a good step to achieve a new leap forward this year, and strive to sprint to a "good start" in the first quarter.
In order to ensure the smooth resumption of work and production of enterprises, Renhuai City has taken active actions to guide enterprises to formulate plans for resumption of work and production after the holiday, and has formulated the "Work Plan on Stabilizing Industrial Fundamentals and Realizing the "Good Start" of Economic Work in the First Quarter of 2024. At the same time, 14 working groups have also been set up to provide guarantee services to large-scale industrial enterprises, covering all visits and investigations, and guiding enterprises to resume work and production.
However, while the liquor industry is in full swing, the retail sales of tobacco and alcohol in Luliang City have decreased by 27% year-on-year. From January to December 2023, the retail sales of consumer goods above designated size in Luliang City will reach 109700 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 35%。Among them, the decline in retail sales of tobacco and alcohol products was as high as 270%。This data has undoubtedly brought a touch of coolness to the fiery development of the liquor industry.
In this context, the standardization work in the industry is also in full swing. According to the WeChat news of the China Food Industry Association, recently, the China Food Industry Association took the lead in formulating the group standard of "Altar Storage Old Liquor (Strong Aroma Liquor)". The formulation of this standard aims to standardize the market order, improve product quality, and provide consumers with safer and healthier liquor products.
In terms of innovation, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology recently announced the list of the fifth batch of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, among which Luzhou Inner Tibetan Laozhai Liquor Co., Ltd. Sichuan Yilong Yinming Rice Wine Co., Ltd. and Sichuan Yibin Zhuhai Liquor Co., Ltd. 3 liquor enterprises were selected. The selection of these enterprises has undoubtedly injected new vitality into the innovation and development of the liquor industry.
It is worth mentioning that during Women's Day, Gan Shuangshuang, a koji-making worker in the sixth workshop of Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd., and Wang Hua, a second-level professor of Northwest A&F University and director of the Wine Museum, were respectively awarded the title of National 38 Red Flag Bearer. Their excellent performance not only sets an example for female practitioners in the liquor industry, but also shows the important position of women in the liquor industry.
In terms of talent cultivation, Wuliangye Group has also made remarkable achievements. According to Wuliangye Group's WeChat news, at the Sichuan Provincial High-skilled Talent Work Commendation and High-skilled Talent Publicity Activity, Wuliangye Group was commended as an advanced collective for the cultivation of high-skilled talents in Sichuan Province, and Xu Sanfu of 506 Workshop Rayong and PUSH Group 3D Company was commended as a Sichuan skill master. The acquisition of these honors has undoubtedly injected a stronger impetus into the talent training work of Wuliangye.
In addition, at the National People's Congress, Gu Xiangyue, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman and General Manager of Jiangsu Jinshiyuan Liquor Co., Ltd., also put forward suggestions on strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights in the liquor industry. He called for the enactment of relevant laws and regulations at the national level, the improvement of the judicial protection system for intellectual property rights, and the improvement of the credit reporting system to punish infringers. The proposal of this suggestion undoubtedly points out the direction for the protection of intellectual property rights in the liquor industry.
In terms of capacity construction, Jinhui Liquor Co., Ltd. and Yibin Jinliang Liquor Co., Ltd. also came with good news. Jinhui Liquor plans to invest 54.4 billion yuan to build five new pottery jars to expand its wine storage capacity. The second phase of the main production project of Yibin Jinliang Liquor has also been basically completed, and it is expected to be put into use in mid-May this year. The completion and commissioning of these projects will further enhance the production capacity and quality of the liquor industry.
At the same time, the registered capital of Sichuan Liquor Group has also increased to 325.8 billion yuan, showing its confidence and determination for future development. The increase in the capital contribution of Luzhou Industrial Development Investment Group and Luzhou Xinglu Investment Group further demonstrates the support and importance of the liquor industry.
In summary, although the year-on-year decline in retail sales of tobacco and alcohol in Luliang City has brought certain challenges to the liquor industry, the positive factors such as the all-out sprint of Renhuai liquor supporting enterprises, the standardization work in the industry, the development of innovative enterprises, the excellent performance of female practitioners, the achievements of talent cultivation and the progress of production capacity construction are injecting strong impetus into the future development of the liquor industry. We have reason to believe that the liquor industry will usher in a better tomorrow after a short period of adjustment.