Harbin, capital of China's northernmost Heilongjiang province, will deepen the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, and promote the construction of an agricultural industry featuring green and high-quality development and driven by technology and branding from 2022-26, according to the Harbin Modern Agricultural Capital Development Plan.
 
According to the plan, Harbin will make strong efforts in the following areas:
 
Establish and improve the agricultural production standard system
 
Harbin will speed up the revision of local standards for agricultural production technical regulations, and form a standard system for agricultural products covering all aspects of agricultural production.
 
By 2026, more than 25 municipal-level agricultural local standards will be established or revised; and 160 demonstration parks of various types of modern agricultural standardization will be built.
 
Cultivate a green food business system
 
Harbin will cultivate competitive modern distribution enterprises, encourage qualified enterprises to deploy warehousing logistics as well as processing and production links across regions, improve domestic and international marketing systems, and set up a number of domestic commodity trading centers and overseas agricultural product exhibition centers in the city.
 
Also, it will help local enterprises and multinational enterprises to jointly build an international logistics supply chain for Pan-European and Pan-Asian areas, and build advantageous agricultural product distribution centers, price formation centers, and processing and distribution centers.
 
Develop biological agriculture
 
Harbin will promote the integrated innovation, transformation and industrial application of biotechnology in the agricultural field.
 
By 2026, the application area of biological fertilizers in the city will exceed 13 percent, and the application area of biological pesticides will exceed 27 percent.
 
It will also develop two to five new veterinary drug products, and the proportion of biological feed in the city will exceed 15 percent.
 
Strict agricultural product quality and safety supervision
 
Harbin plans to improve the supervision system for the quality and safety of agricultural products, as well as the three-level inspection and testing system at the city, county and township levels.
 
By 2026, Harbin will be home to 320 enterprises on the provincial agricultural product quality and safety traceability platform, and the overall pass rate of routine monitoring of agricultural product quality and safety will remain above 98 percent.