From 1993 to 1995, china’s aquatic products’ processing and comprehensive utilization made considerable and rapid progress, which mainly reflects as follows:

1. Newly-built enterprises grew more, and the capacity of aquatic products’ processing and production increased by a big margin. According to the statistics in 1995, there were 4,778 enterprises of processing and comprehensive utilization in the whole country’s aquatic field. Compared with the amount of enterprises in 1992, there were 426 more in 1995.the annual processing capacity was amount to 6.135 million tons. Their refrigeration capacity was 1.04 million t/time, ice-making capacity 82 thousand t/d, freezing capacity 71 thousand t/d, which had respectively increased by 130 thousand t/time, 3.9thousand t/d and 21 thousand t/d during these three years. They respectively accounted for 20.8%, 82%, 78.8% of the whole country’s total refrigeration capacity, ice-making capacity and freezing capacity (including commercial, light industrial and foreign trade departments, etc.). The total production of processing and comprehensive utilization was up to 4.15 million tons, which consumed 7.47 million tons raw materials. It made up 29.7% of the total output of aquatic products, 2% higher than 1992.
2. The proportion of the total output value of processing’s and comprehensive utilization’s products increased further more in the total output value of fishery and its industries. Since aquatic products’ intensive and meticulous processing and comprehensive utilization developed and extended, the total output value of processing and comprehensive utilization was up to 25.03 billion RMB, which accounted for 17% of the fishery and its industries’ total output value and 2% higher than 1992, 71.4% of fishery’s total output value and 18.4% higher than 1992. The aquatic products’ processing and comprehensive utilization has become an important industry in reasonably using resources, improving the quality of aquatic products, making non-staple food rich, absorbing inland surplus labor force and increasing farmers’ income.
3. Mass processing industry expanded by leaps and bounds. In 1995, the mass aquatic products’ processing enterprises developed to 4,111, which accounted for 86% of the whole country’s processing enterprises. But in 1992, there were only 3,100 mass aquatic products’ processing enterprises, which accounted for 71.2% of the whole country’s processing enterprises. From 1993 to 1995, the mass aquatic products’ processing enterprises increased by 32.6%.
4. The development of new products brought about a striking effect. “1997 national aquatic products’ processing exhibiting fair”was held in beijing in december 1994, on which more than 1,100 all kinds of processed products and famous band, specific, high quality and new products were shown. Most of them had improved a lot in their inner quality, standard and packaging, which were well received by the customers. On the fair, 75 products were awarded excellent product prize, and 118 products were awarded popular product prize.
5. Business volume for export of aquatic products increased continually. From 1993 to 1995, aquatic products’ processing factories made an important breakthrough in applying for sanitary registrations abroad. 1291 aquatic products’ processing factories got sanitary registrations in france, italy, greece, spanish, sweden, etc.. 420 eel raising factories and ell processing factories were registered in japan. In 1995, 3.29 billion us$ foreign exchanges were earned by the whole country’s exported aquatic products, which was 96.2% higher than 1992. They made up 27.4% of 12 billion us$, the total business volume for export of the whole country’s various exported food.