2014-2015 economic operation and forecast report conference of China’s food industry was held in Beijing on March 29, 2015. The report is classified into two parts:

I. Overview of 2014’ China’s food industry

1. The food production has steady growth and growth continues to fall, with a year on year growth rate of 7.8%, The growth rate has a year-on-year decrease rate of 1.3%.

2. The food production and marketing cohesion is good, with the marketing rate of 97.8%.

3. The benefit scale continues to expand and growth rate has an obvious decrease. The main business revenue is 10893.293 billion yuan and paid tax is 924.155 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 7.2%. The year-on-year growth rate is decreased by 3.6%.

4. The food price growth rate is considerably low.

5. The foreign food trade has a steady growth rate. The customs statistics data show that food import and export amount is 998.63 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 4.6%, including export amount of 374.45 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 4.1% and import amount of 624.18 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 4.9%. The growth rate has decrease on year-on-year basis.

II. Prediction of 2015’ China’s food industry operation trend

1. The national food industry operation trend continues to slow down.

2. The adjustment, transformation and upgrading of industrial structure will speed up.

3. The residents’ food consumption pattern will gradually evolve and the Internet consumption pattern will have a rapid development.

4. The restriction of resources and environment will be intensified and energy saving, consumption reduction and pollution harnessing tasks will be difficult.