In 2017, the processing industry of agricultural products showed a steady growth rate and continuous improvement in quality and efficiency, which played an important role in promoting the sustainable and stable development of agricultural and rural economy and increasing farmers'income. According to statistics, in 2017, the growth rate of added value of agricultural products processing industry above the scale was 6.5% (excluding price factors), which was 0.7 percentage points higher than that of the same period last year. The main business income reached 19.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.5% over the same period last year, an increase of 1.2 percentage points over 2016, continuing the trend of stabilization and recovery since the beginning of 2016.

The supply structure of agricultural products processing industry continued to be optimized. The growth rate of main business income of each sub-industry of edible agricultural products processing industry shows different levels of high, medium and low. Among them, egg processing, traditional Chinese medicine manufacturing and refined tea processing continued to grow rapidly, with a growth rate of more than 10%, indicating that the emerging and traditional characteristic agricultural products processing industries continue to catch up. Feed processing, vegetable oil processing, dairy processing, grain processing and manufacturing, meat processing, aquatic products processing and fruit and vegetable processing have maintained medium and high-speed growth.The situation is stable. The tobacco manufacturing industry grew the slowest, in line with tobacco control expectations. The main business income of sugar industry and grain raw wine manufacturing industry has also increased rapidly due to the obvious rise in the ex-factory price of finished products. At the same time, the staple food processing industry further developed. In 2017, the main business income of rice and flour food, quick-frozen food, instant noodles and other convenience foods above the national scale reached 392.1 billion yuan, an increase of 10.3% over the same period last year, which was 3.8 percentage points higher than the average growth rate of agricultural products processing industry.With the increasing demand for catering consumption such as group meals and takeout, processing enterprises in the form of central kitchens have sprung up rapidly. In 2017, relevant ministries and commissions launched the establishment of national modern agricultural industrial parks, demonstration parks for the integration and development of rural industries and pilot zones for the integration and development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and organized and implemented projects for the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries to promote the integrated development of agriculture and secondary and secondary industries. According to the survey, more and more processing enterprises and processing cooperatives have established interest linkage mechanisms with small farmers, such as stable orders, guaranteed returns, dividends by shares, joint-stock system, joint-stock cooperative system, cooperative system and socialized services. There are also many enterprises and consumer experience, leisure tourism, health care and old-age care, personal customization, e-commerce platform to accelerate the integration, resulting in a number of new industries, new formats and new models.