The county-level city of Xinghua is continuing to beef up its efforts to build itself into a 100-billion-yuan food industry cluster.

Xinghua city was recently honored as a national leading county for agricultural science and technological modernization, crowning three years of efforts.

The Xinghua Economic Development Zone – located in Xinghua city in East China's Jiangsu province – is pushing hard to expand aggressively into the prepared food market in China.

The 2023 national food industry seasoning taster skills competition final was held on April 1 in Xinghua city.

Two food processing plants in the Xinghua Economic Development Zone have been classified as major agricultural provincial models for the years 2020-2022.

A conference on development, the first such meeting after the recent Spring Festival, was held recently in the Xinghua Economic Development Zone.

In a bid to build a health foods industry cluster valued at over 100 billion yuan ($14.70 billion), the Xinghua Economic Development Zone is taking concerted steps to expedite the goal.