NEW DELHI, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On September 12, the IDF World Dairy Summit 2022 was convened in New Delhi, India. Zhang Jianqiu, CEO of Yili Group, delivered a digital speech on the World Dairy Leaders’ Discussion board and attended the “Dairy within the Subsequent 25 Years” panel dialogue.
Representing the trade’s most prestigious honor, the IDF Dairy Innovation Awards are offered concurrently with the Summit. Amongst 144 entries, Yili was the one dairy producer on the planet to obtain two innovation awards. The Yili Meals Security Danger Evaluation Mannequin acquired the innovation award for meals security and Yili Drinkable Cheese acquired the innovation award for brand new product growth. Yili’s low-temperature sterilization and focus expertise and Yili Cute Star precision diet formulation innovation have been additionally included as finalists for the awards of “Innovation in Sustainable Processing” and “Innovation in Analysis & Improvement – Client Vitamin”, respectively.
In his speech themed “Ushering in Inexperienced Development and Transferring In direction of a Web-Zero Carbon Future”, Zhang Jianqiu stated, “To contribute to a net-zero carbon future, the dairy trade ought to develop net-zero carbon merchandise and construct a net-zero carbon provide chain by following a inexperienced progress path and embracing digital transformation. Sustainable growth of the worldwide dairy trade will add new momentum to the worldwide economic system.”
Innovation with a consumer-centered philosophy
Commenting on Yili’s accomplishment, Tune Kungang, Honorary Chairman of the IDF China Nationwide Committee, stated that the important thing lies in Yili’s consumer-oriented method, leveraging the strengths of its complete provide chain and selling trade growth as a dairy chief.
The Yili Meals Security Danger Evaluation Mannequin pioneers the appliance of three core applied sciences, specifically early identification of meals security dangers, three-graded meals security danger monitoring, and tiered high quality management, to make sure the whole-lifecycle security of merchandise. The mannequin has been working for six years at Yili, facilitating the corporate to satisfy the world-class normal in high quality administration.
Yili Drinkable Cheese, impressed by infants’ breastfeeding habits, has modified the sport of “consuming cheese”. By making use of modern formulation and processing methods, Yili remodeled the nutritious cheese right into a liquid state. This breakthrough in dairy innovation improved youngsters’s cheese consumption expertise, and the product gained over thousands and thousands of shoppers within the first 12 months of launch.
As well as, Yili’s low-temperature sterilization and focus expertise, a finalist for this 12 months’s awards, can successfully scale back the lack of dietary components, prices, and waste of uncooked supplies. One other finalist, Cute Star, wealthy in hint components, not solely meets shoppers’ diversified wants but additionally alleviates the issue of “hidden starvation” brought on by calcium deficiency.
Sustainable dairy
On the panel session, Zhang Jianqiu stated that the dairy trade might be more healthy, greener, and extra modern sooner or later. Finally, as a nature-based, health-oriented, people-centered trade, it should take up extra social obligations and construct a green-development enterprise mannequin to contribute extra to humanity’s sustainability.
Thus far, Yili has taken net-zero actions reminiscent of conducting carbon stock assessments for 12 consecutive years, launching a sequence of net-zero carbon merchandise and constructing clever pastures and net-zero carbon factories by leveraging digital applied sciences. The corporate additionally launched its net-zero carbon roadmap and initiated the Web-Zero Carbon Alliance amongst international companions. Integrating industrial and concrete capabilities, the Yili Trendy Clever Well being Valley has additionally been acknowledged as China’s first net-zero carbon demonstration space.
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