On the morning of August 28, the Eighth National Congress of Members of the China Food Industry Association was solemnly held in Beijing. Delegates from food industry associations across the country, leading food enterprises, and research institutes gathered to discuss strategies for the high-quality development of the food sector. Following a democratic vote, the congress elected the new leadership team of the association’s board of directors. Yang Junmin, Chairman of Yantai Shuangta Food Co., Ltd., was elected Vice President with an overwhelming majority. This not only reflects the national food industry’s high regard for Shuangta Food’s long-standing commitment to the sector and its proven contributions to advancing the industry, but also underscores the full confidence placed in the company’s broad vision and its willingness to shoulder the responsibilities of the times.

Uphold the platform’s mission and shoulder the heavy responsibility of industry development.

For many years, Chairman Yang Junmin has been firmly rooted in the forefront of the food industry. Since 2009, he has served as the president of the Vermicelli Industry Working Committee of the China Food Industry Association—now elevated to the Starch and Starch Products Professional Committee. Over eighteen years of steady dedication, leveraging this collaborative, shared‑value platform, he has spearheaded efforts to drive transformation and modernization within the traditional vermicelli sector, personally guiding and advancing the industry through each critical milestone on its path toward high‑quality development.

In 2009, the Fan Industry Working Committee was officially established, exerting a profound influence across the sector. At that time, the fan‑industry landscape was characterized by a large number of enterprises operating in a fragmented and small‑scale manner. The committee’s formation provided industry players with a unified “family” to safeguard their collective interests and collaboratively pursue broader development goals. With over a thousand years of heritage, China’s fan industry thus embarked on a new chapter of standardized, sustainable growth within a market‑oriented economy, laying a solid organizational foundation for the transformation and upgrading of this traditional, specialized sector.

During his tenure as chairman of the specialized committee, Chairman Yang Junmin consistently adopted a industry-wide perspective, taking proactive and effective measures to strengthen self-regulation, safeguard the food safety baseline, and standardize market operating order. He spearheaded the joint issuance of a food safety initiative by industry enterprises, guiding member companies to regard food safety as an inescapable social responsibility, thereby protecting public health and safety and laying a solid foundation for the industry’s sustained and steady development. He also played a leading role in drafting and revising numerous national and industry standards—covering products such as powdered milk and pea protein—using standards‑based development to drive the establishment of an integrity‑driven food safety system, set clear benchmarks for industry growth, address root causes to uphold the sector’s collective reputation, and provide robust support for the healthy and sustainable advancement of China’s health‑food industry.

As traditional industries undergo iterative upgrades and emerging sectors accelerate their rise, China’s starch and starch‑based products industry is steadily stepping onto the global stage. The specialized committee has fully leveraged its role as a bridge and link, uniting the entire sector, fostering collaborative progress among enterprises, and guiding healthy, orderly market competition. It continues to drive technological innovation and enhance modern management capabilities, helping the industry expand its global footprint and propelling the entire sector toward steady, sustainable long-term development.

Upholding science and technology innovation as the driving force, leading the iterative upgrading of industries.

As a leading enterprise in China’s advanced processing of legumes, Yang Junmin has guided Shuangta Food to remain true to its original aspiration of serving the nation through industry, firmly anchoring itself in a path of leapfrog development within the health-food sector. Building on the foundation of time-honored craftsmanship recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage, the company has made technological innovation its core driving force, leveraging cutting-edge R&D to enhance quality and efficiency in traditional food manufacturing and injecting robust endogenous momentum into the entire industry’s transformation and upgrading.

As a national-level key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization and a national high-tech company, Shuangta Food continues to deepen its “1+N” circular‑economy, full‑industry‑chain model, fully realizing the comprehensive value of each pea. The company has built a diversified portfolio of healthy, nutrition‑focused products driven by both Longkou glass noodles and pea protein, with a product lineup that spans supermarket retail, foodservice, sports nutrition, and foods for special medical purposes. Backed by an industry‑unique academician workstation and a nationally accredited laboratory, the company undertakes key national R&D projects, masters cutting‑edge core technologies for extracting pea protein, and combines time‑honored intangible cultural heritage expertise with a robust, end‑to‑end quality‑control system. As a result, it can deliver tailored technical solutions to the industry while providing consumers with scientifically formulated, diverse, and health‑oriented food options.

Innovative products such as low-GI organic Longkou cellophane noodles, protein milk, protein peptides, protein‑balancing agents, and chickpea oil exemplify how companies are leveraging technological innovation to revitalize traditional industries. By advancing conventional foods toward nutrition‑focused, functional health solutions, these enterprises have driven a profound transformation of the manufacturing sector—shifting it toward health‑oriented, functionally enhanced offerings—and have earned widespread recognition from both the market and consumers.

This election as Vice President of the China Food Industry Association is a weighty honor—both a recognition of Shuangta’s past achievements and a testament to its solid, results‑driven performance, and, above all, a clarion call for the company to embark on a new journey and shoulder an even greater mission in this new era. Looking ahead, Shuangta Foods will align itself with the prevailing trends of rising consumer demand for nutrition, health, and personalization, steadily accelerating technological breakthroughs and product innovation, and concentrating its efforts on elevating and expanding the industry. In doing so, the company will assume greater responsibility for driving high‑quality development of China’s health‑food sector during the 15th Five‑Year Plan period, and contribute the robust strength of Shuangta to the nation’s goal of becoming a global leader in the food industry.

It is reported that, in addition to the company in question, other enterprises elected as vice-presidential units of the China Food Industry Association include China Resources, Nestlé, Bright Dairy, Yili, Wilmar International, and Nongfu Spring.