& shy; Yesterday, the reporter learned from Fuzhou municipal bureau of commerce that the Straits Agricultural and Sideline Products Logistics Center strives to complete four aspects of transformation within the year, with a planned total investment of 0.12 billion yuan. Among them, after the upgrade, the market’s detectable projects will expand from the existing vegetables and fruits to cover four categories: meat and aquatic products.
& shy; It is understood that the Straits agricultural and sideline products logistics center was listed as the second batch of pilot markets for the construction of the national public welfare agricultural products wholesale market last year, and received 0.1 billion yuan of central financial subsidy funds.
& shy; According to the plan, the construction of Fuzhou public welfare large-scale agricultural products wholesale market is four major contents, including the construction of agricultural products inspection and testing center, the construction of informatization, the upgrading and transformation of fire protection and security system, as well as the upgrading and transformation of market public service infrastructure and the construction of cold chain system.
& shy; Among them, the construction project of the agricultural product inspection and testing center plans to invest 12 million yuan to upgrade and transform the agricultural product inspection and testing center laboratory of the logistics center, add experimental apparatus, and build a testing information release platform.
& shy; The relevant person in charge of Fuzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce said that after the upgrading of the market testing center, the detectable projects will expand from the existing vegetables and fruits to four categories covering meat and aquatic products, it will provide more effective food safety guarantee for people’s livelihood.
& shy; According to the introduction, after the completion of the informatization transformation project, the market electronic transaction mode will be expanded from PC to mobile. In the future, online transactions can be conducted, which can not only improve transaction efficiency, greatly improve the market’s ability to radiate outward, and also provide big data support for the government to enhance its macro-control ability.
& shy; What deserves attention is that according to the “public welfare agricultural products wholesale market standards (Trial)” formulated and issued by the Ministry of Commerce last year, after the completion of the public welfare agricultural products wholesale market in Fuzhou city, an emergency response mechanism will be established, actively fulfill social responsibilities. The wholesale price of about 10 kinds of fresh agricultural products in the market that are closely related to residents’ lives will be lower than about 10% of the price monitored by the local price authority.
& shy; At the same time, the comprehensive charging level of fresh agricultural products in the market is lower than the average charging level of non-public welfare agricultural products wholesale market in the region or province by more than 20%.
& shy; This means that citizens will eventually get some benefits from reducing the cost of intermediate links.
& shy; It is reported that the Taiwan Strait agricultural and sideline products logistics center was built and put into use in September, 2009, with a total construction area of 400,000 square meters. It is also the largest comprehensive wholesale trading market for agricultural and sideline products in our province. Vegetables, fruits, 5 frozen food wholesale markets such as non-staple food, livestock and poultry slaughter houses and meat great speciality.
& shy; Last year, the transaction volume of this market reached about 8 billion yuan, which is expected to exceed 8.7 billion yuan this year. (Reporter Xia Jing)