In the evening, trucks transporting pigs enter the first industrial park of Shuanghui in Luohe, Henan. After undergoing procedures such as slaughtering, meat ripening, and cutting, these fresh meat products can be seen by local consumers the next morning. Similar scenarios are playing out simultaneously in Shuanghui's modern meat processing bases in 18 provinces (cities) across the country.

As the industry leader, Shuanghui slaughters 15 million pigs a year, 300 million chickens, and produces and sells nearly 4 million tons of meat products, with more than 10,000 tons of products sold to all parts of the country every day. Behind Shuanghui products is a full-chain quality control system covering feed, breeding, slaughtering, meat product processing, cold chain logistics, and commercial foreign trade, which is protecting the food safety defense line.

Upgrading the intelligent production line

In the meat product workshop of the first industrial park of Shuanghui, a smart production line is demonstrating the practice of Shuanghui's Industry 4.0 - after the raw meat is defrosted by a microwave defrosting device, it enters the automatic twisting process, with various indicators displayed by the on-line automatic analysis equipment for fats, and then continues to complete the auxiliary material configuration, massaging, meat paste conveyance, sterilization, selection, packaging, stacking, and warehousing automation production with the assistance of intelligent equipment such as automatic guiding vehicles and rail-guided vehicles.

This automated process, which has been upgraded with an investment of 2.4 billion yuan, significantly reduces the manual intervention points in the traditional meat product production process, reducing the instability of product quality and food safety risks caused by human factors.

Automated sterilization process

In the slaughterhouse, Shuanghui has invested 5 billion yuan to introduce a number of leading digital and intelligent technologies to transform the slaughter and cutting production line, such as accurately identifying the identity information of each pig through an AI ID recognition system, dynamically adjusting the temperature in each area through a zoning intelligent temperature control system, and ensuring product quality to the maximum extent possible... In addition, it has also pioneered a white strip image grading system in China, which automatically determines the lean meat content, back fat thickness, and body quality of the white strip through high-definition image scanning combined with AI intelligent algorithms, and automatically grades it.

“After the intelligent transformation, from pig procurement, production and processing to logistics distribution, all related data in the industrial chain are automatically collected, uploaded, and calculated, and can be traced online and summarized in real-time. This not only greatly improves production efficiency but also ensures product quality,” said Yuan Wentai, vice president of the slaughter plant of Shuanghui Development Co., Ltd., to the media.

Behind the high investment in hardware upgrades is Shuanghui's emphasis on the construction of food quality and safety culture. For more than 40 years, Shuanghui has always adhered to the quality management philosophy of

To strengthen supervision at all stages, in addition to the food safety director and food safety staff, nearly 400 quality control personnel with food-related majors are distributed at all stages of the industrial chain, implementing a professional supervision mechanism, exercising the veto power on quality, and further ensuring the comprehensiveness, depth, and authority of food safety control work.

The operation of this control model is supported by more than 200 quality and safety management documents covering the industrial chain of Shuanghui. By introducing quality and safety management systems such as ISO9001, HACCP, and ISO22000, Shuanghui has established ten standardized internal control systems covering all links of the industrial chain, ensuring that every task has a standard to follow. At the same time, Shuanghui has trained more than 150 internal auditors, conducted two internal audits annually, and hired external audit experts to comprehensively audit the quality and safety management system. Through internal and external audits, the company continuously improves the operation quality of the internal control system.

Food safety management runs through the entire industrial chain

Shuanghui has a strict

Quality inspection

In more than 50 testing rooms nationwide, Shuanghui has invested 120 million yuan to purchase more than 2,000 sets of equipment such as time-of-flight mass spectrometers. Every batch of pigs, raw and auxiliary packaging materials, and other items need to undergo comprehensive testing of more than 1,000 projects including physics and chemistry, microbiology, veterinary drug residues, heavy metals, and prohibited substances. Only after passing the inspection can they be accepted and used. Each batch of products is inspected before leaving the factory, and the inspection results are automatically associated with the dispatching system. Only after the qualified information is uploaded to the ERP system can the products be scanned out of the warehouse, ensuring that the products are qualified before they can be shipped.

In the logistics process, Shuanghui has established a comprehensive standardized control system in many aspects such as cold chain transportation management, warehousing management, hygiene management, temperature control, timeliness control, and product receiving and dispatching. It has built a series of information systems such as intelligent vehicle management, intelligent dispatching, and safety collaboration, realizing ten full-process intelligent controls such as vehicle transportation location positioning, temperature tracking, driver monitoring, load sensing, business visibility, and intelligent dispatching. 24-hour, multi-dimensional monitoring ensures the quality and safety of Shuanghui's transported food.

For the terminals with the highest traffic and most complex situations, Shuanghui has set up more than 300 sales branches and more than 5,000 business personnel nationwide, supervising and managing product sales at any time. At the same time, the customer service hotline collects customer complaints, responds quickly, and handles consumer requests in a timely manner.

Full-process product information traceability

From the source to the dining table, meat products must go through a series of chained processes such as breeding, slaughtering and processing, deep processing, and transportation. Every link needs to be strengthened and strictly prevent possible health quality issues. Once a food safety issue occurs, the enterprise's reputation and operations may suffer negative impacts.

To effectively prevent such risks, Shuanghui has implemented an ERP system, online mall, production MES system, salesperson mobile marketing system, Hualong mobile business system, Wanjia Convenience O2O platform, Shuanghui Cloud Business mobile business platform, slaughtering industry digital platform, Shuanghui Cloud Business industrial Internet platform, Shuanghui big data platform, and other systems to achieve full-process information traceability from supply, production, storage, transportation, and sales, ensuring traceability in both forward and reverse directions, controllability of the process, and accountability. This is not only a transparent food safety commitment to consumers but also an effective tool for enterprise self-supervision.

For 41 years, the comprehensive industrial chain quality and safety management system constructed by Shuanghui has not only helped it expand from Henan to the national and even international stage, but also provided a reference model for the quality control management of China's food industry. Profit and quality are not an either/or choice; enterprises can take a development path that balances efficiency and safety through technological innovation, digital and intelligent upgrades, and management optimization.

“Food safety and nutrition are closely related to the health of every family and individual.” Shuanghui stated that in the future, it will continue to prioritize consumer safety and health, constantly upgrading hardware and software facilities, innovating quality and safety management, continuously improving the level of food safety control, and continuously providing consumers with safe, healthy, and delicious meat products.