On 28 February, Shandong Lisheng Food Group held its 2024 annual work conference at its Jining headquarters. Chairman Gao Fengguo, President Gao Fengshe and the heads of the subsidiaries and centres attended. The conference summarised 2023 operations, analysed the current grain-processing landscape, and set out the year’s priorities.

It was reported that in 2023 capacity at the group’s Liangshan Healthy Food Industrial Park continued to ramp up, the two core businesses of flour and dried noodles maintained steady growth, and overseas sales of own-brand products rose steadily. Lisheng has now formed a group-scale production base of eight companies processing 7,000 tons of wheat and producing 560 tons of dried noodles daily, with grain storage, intelligent milling, noodle deep-processing and warehousing-logistics tightly linked.

In his address, Gao Fengguo said the group would make “smart manufacturing, green and low-carbon, international markets” the main themes for 2024 — continuing the automation and digital upgrading of each base to raise single-line capacity and product consistency, while completing the food-safety and quality-management systems needed for international procurement and expanding noodle and flour exports and OEM contract manufacturing.

The conference also confirmed that the group would form a dedicated contract-manufacturing service team for overseas clients, offering formula customisation, packaging customisation and small-batch sampling, while advancing green-manufacturing measures such as solar power and energy saving — strengthening Lisheng’s overall competitiveness in international markets through a smart, low-carbon factory image.