In
early March, 2016, Guangxi officially launched the 2nd business
start-up project for the local sugar industry. It is expected that, after
5-year development, the industry will achieve transformation and upgrading,
involving sugarcane planting, sugar making process, enterprise scale and
sustainable development.
Source: Bing
From 29 Feb. to 1 March, 2016, the Guangxi Sugar
Industry Development Meeting, also the High Quality, High Yield and High Sugar
Content Sugarcane Base Construction Meeting was held in Wuxuan County, Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region. This signalled that the 2nd business
start-up programme for the local sugar industry has been officially initiated.
Accordingly, the status quo of the local sugar industry was analysed and the
detailed implementation proposals were made for each government department
involved during the meeting.
Specifically, attention is paid to:
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Sugarcane planting: to construct in total 333,333
ha (5 million mu) high-output and high-sugar-content sugarcane planting
base (dual-high sugarcane planting base), to ensure 90 t/ha (6 t/mu) yield
on average, and 14%+ sugar content
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Two-step method promotion: to particularly
promote this method (sugarcane – raw sugar – refined sugar) in advantaged
areas, such as Nanning, Congzuo, Laibin, Liuzhou, Baise and Hechi cities
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Sugar company reorganisation: to specially
support top 8 sugar makers in the region and other sugar makers that make
full-year sales of >USD1.53 billion (RMB10 billion) from domestic and
overseas businesses, to reorganise local sugar companies and expand their
own production scales
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Sugar industry cyclic economy: to explore high
value-added products including furfural, xylose, xylitol and
L(+)-arabinose
*Regarding the goals set in Guangxi’s sugar industry in the 2nd business start-up, please see Guangxi government issues proposal for 2nd business
start-up in sugar industry in Sweeteners China News 1601.
Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region to Promote the Sugar Industry to Start 2nd Business
Start-up, 2015-2020
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Development planning
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Stage 1 (2015)
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To hold press conference to give publicity to the overall goals,
policies and measures for the 2nd business start-up programme
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Stage 2 (2016-2018)
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To make staged achievements:
1. Construction of 70%+ of the dual-high sugarcane planting base
2. Practical progress in enterprise reorganisation – concentration
ratio of top 8 sugar makers to hit 85%+
3. Enterprises adapted to the dual-high sugarcane planting base to
finish 80%+ of technological reconstruction
4. Wide application of sugar industry big data service platform in
agricultural, industrial and commercial fields
5. Establishment and operation of a futures company
6. Reform in sugar industry management system by the end of 2016
7. Investigation and draft for the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Sugar Industry Management Regulations by 2017 and in H1 2018,
implementation of the regulation
8. Improvement of temporary storage mechanism
9. Establishment and operation of the government sugar industry
investment and guiding fund
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Stage 3 (2018-2020)
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To achieve *goals basically
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Note: *Goals set in Guangxi’s sugar industry in the
2nd business start-up, please see Guangxi government issues proposal for 2nd
business start-up in sugar industry in Sweeteners China News 1601.
Source: The People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
The 2nd business start-up in Guangxi’s
sugar industry is of great significance to the industry transformation and
upgrading. Now the setbacks in the local sugar industry are high production
costs, low sugar making process, small production scale and short industry
chain. Targeted at these problems, development planning has been made.
- High production costs. This is mainly caused by raw material. During
2011-2015 (12th Five-year Plan), the purchase price of sugarcane in
Guangxi was up to USD76/t (RMB500/t). On the contrary, Brazil, as the largest
sugar producer country, purchased sugarcane at around USD38/t (RMB250/t), half
of Guangxi’s. This is mainly because Guangxi shows small yield of sugarcane and
low sugar content.
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Guangxi: 60 t/ha; about 12%
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Brazil: 150 t/ha; about 17%
- Low sugar making process. Now the two-step method (sugarcane – raw sugar –
refined sugar) is playing a dominant role in the world’s sugar industry.
However, Guangxi adopts one-step method (sugarcane – sugar) mainly.
Accordingly, refined sugar can be kept for 3-5 years, with no changes in colour
and no deterioration in quality, whilst the sugar produced in Guangxi (based on
the method of sulphurous acid), containing vulcanised substances, can be kept
only 1 and even 0.5 year, and then will turn yellow and even go bad.
- Small scale and short supply chain. In Guangxi, there are 30 sugar companies
in total. The top 8 sugar makers (based on daily extracting capacity) are
combined to boast about 485,000 t/d extracting capacity, only around 70% of the
regional figure. In addition, the number of sugar makers with <5,000 t/d
exceeds 45, over 40% of the total. Meanwhile, the supply chain is centred in
sugar making, along with paper making based on bagasse and alcohol production
based on molasses, however very rare in utilising filter mud.
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