Frozen Blueberry

The Chinese government attaches great importance to the development of the frozen fruits and vegetables industry and regards it as an important means to ensure food supply, promote the upgrading of agricultural industrialization, and facilitate rural revitalization. A series of policies have been introduced to support the industry's development, covering multiple aspects such as cold - chain facility construction, support for planting bases, market expansion, and standard formulation.

Support for cold - chain logistics facility construction

Cold - chain logistics is the core infrastructure of the frozen fruits and vegetables industry. Multiple national departments have introduced policies to support the construction of cold - chain logistics bases and on - site cold storage and preservation facilities, and to improve the cold - chain logistics network.

1. Project for the construction of cold storage and preservation facilities at agricultural product origins

From 2020 to 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance, jointly implemented the project for the construction of cold storage and preservation facilities at agricultural product origins. A total of 38,000 family farms, farmers' cooperatives, and rural collective economic organizations were supported to build 78,000 on - site cold storage and preservation facilities, with a newly added storage capacity of over 98 million cubic meters.

100 key counties (cities) for backbone cold - chain logistics and 1,000 cold - chain collection and distribution centers at origins were established and cultivated.

2. Construction of national cold - chain logistics bases

The National Development and Reform Commission organizes the construction of national cold - chain logistics bases on an annual basis, focusing on the advantageous production areas of high - value - added fresh agricultural products. Relying on the existing cold - chain logistics infrastructure clusters, it integrates and aggregates cold - chain logistics and upstream and downstream industrial resources.

As of 2025, five batches of 105 national backbone cold - chain logistics bases have been included in the key construction list, including core cities in the frozen fruits and vegetables industry such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Jinan.

Investment from the central budget supports the construction of eligible cold - chain logistics facilities to promote the improvement of the urban and rural cold - chain facility network.

3. Construction of the agricultural product supply - chain system

The Ministry of Commerce, in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance, issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Construction of the Agricultural Product Supply - Chain System" and the "Notice on Supporting the Acceleration of the Construction of the Agricultural Product Supply - Chain System to Further Promote the Development of Cold - Chain Logistics", supporting the construction of cold - chain processing and distribution centers and central kitchens in agricultural product wholesale markets, enhancing the connection capacity between trunk and branch lines, and improving the cold - chain environment at agricultural product retail terminals. For example, in the frozen fruits and vegetables industry clusters in Linyi and Laiyang of Shandong Province, a number of cold - chain processing and distribution centers have been built with the support of this policy, improving the product circulation efficiency.