Chinanews.com published on the website of the Ministry of Electric Industry and Information Technology on February 26 on the benefits of the food industry from January to December 2020.

From January to December 2020, the total profits of enterprises above designated size in the national food industry reached 620.66 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.2%, which was 3.1 percentage points higher than that of all industries.

Data map: citizens purchase goods in supermarkets.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu

  Among them, the agricultural and sideline food processing industry achieved a total profit of 200.12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%; the food manufacturing industry achieved a total profit of 179.14 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%; the wine, beverage and refined tea manufacturing industry achieved a total profit of 241.14 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase An increase of 8.9%.