Chapter 190 Deep Processing (Happy New Year) (Ch 822753661)

After the harvesting ceremony of Senzu soybeans was held at the Taminchagan base.
Jiang Miao stayed at the Taminchagan base for another three days. During this period, he had a series of exchanges with several academicians, various relevant postgraduate examination institutions and colleges in China, and also reached a series of scientific research cooperation agreements.
Among them, Northeast Agricultural University will cooperate with Hailufeng Company at the Taminchagan base to establish a comprehensive cold and temperate crop breeding research institute, and also recruit 60 recent graduates related to agriculture and bioengineering from the university.
In addition to Northeast Agricultural University, other agricultural universities in the Northeast and agricultural universities in North China also have a large number of recent graduates recruited.
Currently, there are five research institutes under the Mo’nan Research Center, namely the Biomining Institute, the Microbial Energy Institute, the Deep Crop Development Institute, the Cold and Temperate Crop Breeding Institute, and the Cattle and Sheep Breeding Institute.
There are a total of 226 scientific researchers in the entire Mo Nan Research Center.
Jiang Miao did not plan to do the in-depth application and secondary improvement of Senzu soybeans himself, but instead handed them over to the Mo’nan Research Center.
If he is free, he will provide guidance. If not, these researchers will have to rely on themselves.
In fact, these tasks are not difficult. After all, the most difficult part has been completed by Jiang Miao.
Now that the foundation has been laid, it will certainly not be too difficult for later comers to carry out secondary research and development based on this foundation.
For example, the plant protein extraction process of Senzu soybeans. Since the plant protein content of the three Senzu soybean varieties is different, the extraction process must be different. The purpose of studying this refining process is to further reduce costs and increase efficiency.
For example, there is a huge difference in protein content among domestic native soybean varieties, genetically modified American soybeans, and Senzu No. 3 soybeans.
The protein content of genetically modified American soybeans or croton is generally 34∽35%.
The protein content of domestic native soybeans is generally 40∽45%.
The protein content of Senzu No. 3 soybean is about 52.7%.
Plant protein producers will definitely give priority to Senzu Soybean No. 3, or domestic native soybeans, Senzu No. 1, and Senzu No. 2, and only finally choose genetically modified American soybeans and genetically modified croton.
In the process of extracting plant protein from soybeans with different protein contents, it is necessary to study the use of reasonable sodium hydroxide solution or plant protein decomposing enzyme for extraction.
The plant protein extraction process currently adopted by Hailufeng Company is the enzyme dissolution process.
Jiang Miao did not choose the more mainstream alkaline dissolution method, but instead chose the enzyme dissolution method. The reason is that Hailufeng Company’s core competence is biotechnology. At the same time, the enzyme dissolution method does not require the use of too many chemical solvents, which can reduce the difficulty of waste liquid treatment.
Close to the upstream of the Yangxu River, about ten kilometers west of the Taminchagan breeding base, Jiang Miao, led by Liu Zhiben, is inspecting the soybean deep processing base that is working overtime.
This base is very large, covering an area of ​​nearly 5,000 acres, and includes a soybean oil refinery, a soybean protein refinery, a soybean meal feed plant, a waste liquid recycling plant, and a thermal power plant.
“The plant we are planning can process 15 million tons of soybeans each year, and produce 3 million tons of soybean oil, 4 million tons of soybean protein, and about 8 million tons of soybean meal annually.”
Obviously, this base serves the 30 million acres of farms in the entire Zhelimu City.
After listening to Liu Zhiben’s description, Jiang Miao shook his head slightly: “The pure production of raw materials will face increasingly huge industrial competition pressure in the future.”
“Boss, I’m aware of that, but the competition in the secondary deep processing of soybean products is also very fierce.” Liu Zhiben looked helpless. He had done his homework before and even asked the market research department to conduct an industry survey.
Jiang Miao was naturally very clear about this situation.
Many domestic industries that are not technically difficult must have a very high degree of internal competition. Everyone can do it, so naturally a large number of people will enter the market.
No matter which industry it is, as long as domestic technology achieves a breakthrough, prices will often plummet, which makes many European and American companies hate our companies very much.
Of course, this kind of internal circulation is a relatively good result for ordinary consumers, otherwise we will all face a variety of high-priced products.
Jiang Miao has already seen the potential crisis in the soybean deep processing industry in the future.
As domestic soybean production capacity has skyrocketed, soybean oil can still be used to refine biodiesel, but soy protein, in addition to being used as feed, can only be used to make foods such as artificial meat, tofu, dried tofu, protein powder, and artificial silk.
Hailufeng Company alone produces 4 to 5 million tons of soy protein each year. If other companies are added, there will soon be overcapacity in soy protein.
This is real overcapacity.
After all, the amount of feed protein used in the domestic breeding industry every year is approximately 80 to 90 million tons. The sources of these feed proteins include plant proteins such as soybean meal, rapeseed cake, corn, wheat, sorghum, as well as animal proteins such as fish meal.
Even if the per capita consumption of meat, eggs and milk doubles, the annual feed protein consumption can only reach 160-180 million tons.
However, Jiang Miao is not optimistic about the future expectation of doubling per capita meat, eggs and milk consumption.
On the one hand, since the median income per capita will not increase too quickly, the increase in meat, egg and milk consumption brought about by price cuts is unlikely to double within ten years.
On the other hand, it is eating habits. Coupled with the fact that the per capita consumption of meat, eggs and milk among many domestic consumers is already relatively high, it would certainly be difficult to reach a higher peak.
This almost foreseeable future forces Jiang Miao to think about a question, that is, how to avoid the highly competitive industry while making full use of these soy proteins.
It is sometimes difficult to win a price war with domestic companies.
The main reason is that Jiang Miao still has some shame, while some companies are completely shameless. There is an obvious difference in labor costs between the two sides.
For example, the branch of Hailufeng Company in Jiangxi Province has been complained by many local companies because of its high wages. They said that Hailufeng Company was disrupting the market and engaging in vicious competition.
Obviously, when it comes to shamelessness, Jiang Miao cannot compare to many unscrupulous businessmen in the country.
Sometimes, in labor-intensive industries, labor costs also account for a large proportion.
Taking the labor cost of Hailufeng Company, taking the Gannan branch as an example, the basic salary of ordinary farm workers is 3,500 yuan, with five insurances and one fund, basically no overtime, and holidays are taken off, ensuring that each person has at least 8 days of rest per month.
The basic salary for ordinary workers at Yingxiong Dairy’s farms is 3,500 yuan.
The relatively high-paid bee farm workers have a basic monthly salary of 6,500 yuan.
However, the proportion of agricultural technicians in Gannan Branch is very high. Taking the oil tea plantation as an example, the ratio of ordinary farm workers to agricultural technicians is about 6:4.
Those ordinary farm workers are all older migrant workers, generally in their forties, while agricultural technicians are mostly in their twenties and thirties.
There is no way. The farms of Hailufeng Company are all intensive, mechanized and technological farms, and the proportion of technical personnel is definitely very high.
In addition, Hailufeng Company has various hidden benefits. In southern Jiangxi and other places, Hailufeng Company has become an employment target second only to units and state-owned enterprises.
Especially the middle-aged people with low education in rural areas, they are in a relatively awkward position in the current trend. They could have worked on construction sites, but with the decline in the scale of infrastructure in recent years, the real estate industry no longer needs so many migrant workers, and other industries cannot accommodate so many migrant workers at once.
Therefore, the farm of Hailufeng Company has become a place for migrant workers to find reemployment.
Local young people will also apply to be farm technicians, especially those with college degrees. They learn technology quickly and many of them can operate computers and smart equipment.
In fact, the basic salary is not the key point that makes other local companies break through.
These are mainly various subsidies, performance and dividends from Hailufeng Company. Although the virtual shares of Gannan Branch have not been distributed yet, subsidies and performance are available every month.
Especially for the apiary workers of Gannan Branch, during the peak honey-collecting season, the average apiary worker can receive a performance bonus of about 3,000 yuan a month. With other miscellaneous subsidies and after deducting five insurances and one fund, they can receive about 9,000 yuan a month.
Ordinary workers in the tea oil plantations also have a lot of performance bonuses, but it is only around 1,000 to 1,500 yuan per month. Their performance bonus comes from the profit from grass and honey.
Once the tea oil trees are ready for harvest, the performance of the tea oil plantation will soar.
At the beginning, local companies thought that the wages of Hailufeng Company were average and not much better than theirs.
However, as Hailufeng Company’s local layout became more and more in-depth and one industry after another went into production, the proportion of performance in employee income began to increase.
What makes ordinary private enterprises even more uncomfortable is that Hailufeng Company does not require overtime every other day unless there are special circumstances. Factories and farms reduce labor intensity and working hours by increasing the number of employees.
In fact, Jiang Miao also thought about whether to reduce the number of employees by paying extra overtime.
However, after careful consideration, he abandoned the model of reducing the size of the workforce by paying extra overtime.
Although paying overtime and working more can reduce the size of the workforce, the disadvantages are also very obvious, including physical and mental fatigue of employees, increased accident rates, increased incidence of occupational diseases among employees, and reduced employee sense of belonging, and the cost of employing people may not necessarily be reduced much.
Moreover, the weighted influence and weighted consumption increment brought by two employees with a salary of 3,500 yuan and one employee with a salary of 7,000 yuan cannot be equated.
Of course, if it is a small business with only a few dozen employees, the overtime pay model will naturally be given priority.
However, for companies like Hailufeng, priority should be given to influence and increased consumption.
Taking the Gannan branch as an example, if the model of overtime pay and temporary workers is adopted, it is estimated that there will be less than 1,500 formal employees.
However, at this time, the Gannan Branch had about 3,700 regular employees, not including the 1,800 employees of Yingxiong Dairy and 300 store clerks of the physical business department.
This is not the limit of the Gannan Branch, as there are still tea seed oil pressing plants, deep processing plants and fruit bases that have not yet recruited employees on a large scale.
The construction of Hero Dairy’s dairy products deep processing plant has not been completed.
It is expected that the number of employees of Hailufeng Company in Jiangxi Province will exceed 10,000 in the future.
Obviously, under this circumstance, Hailufeng Company will have a great influence in Jiangxi Province, and the consumption growth it brings will also increase.
For example, in Shanmei City, the headquarters of Hailufeng Company, due to the income brought by Egyptian catfish and the increasing size of the company’s employees, the local consumption of strawberries, ginseng fruit, tomatoes, white truffles, meat products and dairy products has increased significantly.
Jiang Miao can clearly see this through the sales of the company’s physical stores.
Therefore, for the future soybean deep processing industry, Jiang Miao has to consider how to ensure the income and welfare of employees while maintaining high corporate income.
As for ordinary products such as soybean protein powder, ordinary feed, and soybean cooking oil, except for a part of self-sufficiency, it is difficult for them to compete with other domestic companies.
When it comes to plant protein, Hailufeng Company’s own farms and special feed factories certainly have no way to fully digest it.
“To solve the problem, how much vacant land is there in this soybean deep processing base?”
Liu Zhiben was stunned for a moment by the boss’s sudden question, and then replied: “There are still about 2,000 acres reserved for subsequent deep processing industries.”
Jiang Miao directly ordered: “Well, ask the engineering company that contracted the factory’s infrastructure to make a design plan for a rayon factory with an area of ​​500 acres and an annual production capacity of 2 million tons of rayon.”
Upon hearing this, Liu Zhiben quickly expressed his opinion: “Rayon? Boss, please forgive me for being frank, but the technology of making rayon from soybean protein is already very mature. Whether it is viscose fiber, cuprammonium fiber, or acetate fiber, there are many manufacturers in China producing them. If we enter this market, I’m afraid it will be difficult to sell our 2 million tons of production capacity.”
“I know.” Jiang Miao knew more about the situation of domestic rayon than Liu Zhiben because he had read relevant information before.
It was because of this knowledge that he chose the rayon industry.
“I will have the research center set up another research institute to study soy protein rayon and try to modify soy protein to simulate rayon with properties that are almost the same as natural silk.”
“Is that so?” Liu Zhiben fell into deep thought. He knew that the company’s technical research and development capabilities were very strong, but that didn’t mean it could always succeed. So he still made a cautious suggestion: “Boss, I don’t think there’s a need to be so anxious. We can wait until the technology is developed before setting up the factory.”
However, Jiang Miao shook his head and said, “You still don’t know enough about biotechnology. The key point that restricts soybean protein from becoming a silk-like artificial silk is that if we continue to improve it based on the technical route of traditional artificial silk, it will naturally be extremely difficult. But if the characteristics of soybean protein change and become similar to silk protein, then the difficulty of artificial silk will drop sharply.”
“…” Liu Zhiben then remembered that his boss was a top biologist.
As Jiang Miao said, it is very difficult to imitate natural silk through the traditional artificial silk route, and the cost will definitely be very high, especially in the early stages of production.
However, through gene editing technology, the protein composition and structure of soy protein can be fundamentally modified to form a protein composition and structure that is highly similar to natural silk, and the production difficulty will be simpler than ordinary artificial silk.
Rayon also has several advantages. On the one hand, it has better bioaffinity and is less likely to cause allergies. On the other hand, it can be degraded by microorganisms and sunlight and will not form microplastic particles. Finally, it is less durable than chemical fibers, which can increase consumers’ purchase frequency.
As long as soy protein rayon can achieve properties similar to natural silk, coupled with its environmental value, it will definitely be able to snatch food from the mouth of chemical fibers and grab a large market share.
You should know that the total amount of chemical fibers used in textiles worldwide each year is about 50 million tons.
If soy protein rayon can take up one-fifth of the market, it can reach tens of millions of tons.
What’s more, this thing is a powerful weapon against Europe. It directly hits the weak points of old Europe in terms of wearing comfort and environmental protection.
As long as a group of internet trolls are hired to go to Europe and the United States to publicize the microplastic hazards and environmental pollution of chemical fibers every day, the environmental weight of soy protein rayon can be increased.
However, after thinking about it, Jiang Miao felt that even if this genetically modified soybean variety was developed, it would not be suitable for selling seeds.
Because he knows the nature of domestic companies too well.
Once soy protein rayon can imitate natural silk, related companies will surely go into a frenzy of internal competition, and eventually the market will be squeezed to the point where no one can make money.
This was definitely not a result he could tolerate.
So he raised his head and told Liu Zhiben: “The artificial silk plan is temporarily shelved, and the Mo Nan branch does not need to be responsible for this matter.”
Liu Zhiben was confused by Jiang Miao’s sudden change of heart, but he still nodded: “Okay.”
The reason why Jiang Miao shelved this project was not because the technology was not feasible, but because there was no way to keep it secret in Jirim City, where the Mo Nan branch was located. There were many roads connected in all directions, and there were tens of millions of acres of soybean fields. It was impossible to prevent someone from secretly plucking a few beans.
Although the authorities will certainly be willing to cooperate with Hailufeng Company and strictly prohibit other domestic companies from producing at will, foreign companies will not be so obedient and they can secretly grow it in their own country.
For example, in the sparsely populated Australian continent, it is entirely possible to create a dozen or twenty isolated planting areas inland, making it difficult for Jiang Miao’s root rot fungi to paralyze all soybean fields in a short period of time.
So he had to choose an isolated growing area.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of such places in China.
He chose two places, one was the heart of the Taklamakan Desert, and the other was the end of the Shiyang River between the Tengger Desert and the Badain Jaran Desert.
From the perspective of geographical location, the end of the Shiyang River is better, and here is the Xiandou soybean planting area planned by COFCO Group. Hailufeng Company can lease an area from COFCO Group to establish an isolated planting area and rayon industrial base to ensure that not a single bean or leaf is allowed to flow out.
Monopolizing high-quality rayon would not only allow Hailufeng Company to make a lot of money, but also preserve a large part of the domestic clothing industry.
Now the business of many domestic garment factories has been snatched away by Southeast Asia and South Asia, and many domestic garment companies have invested in Southeast Asia.
As a labor-intensive industry, the clothing industry provided many jobs in those days.
To achieve industrial upgrading, it is necessary to monopolize the source of high-quality rayon, lock the technology domestically, and prevent garment factory owners from moving the rayon clothing industry to Southeast Asia.
The low-end clothing industry is already beyond redemption, so the mid- to high-end clothing industry must at least be rescued, and we’ll try to save as much as we can.
Moreover, the gross profit margin of the mid-to-high-end clothing industry is relatively high, which can keep up with the domestic wage increase.

Người mua: TheAn, 08/01/2025 10:06