The freshness of Chinese fresh milk is globally leading.

On July 8th, at the 17th Dairy Industry Conference, Chen Mengshan, former Secretary of the Party Group of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Director of the National Food and Nutrition Advisory Committee, released a heavyweight report showing that the flow rate of fresh milk from extrusion to entry into factories in China is much faster than in many developed dairy countries.

Chinese ranches have the willingness and ability to achieve "milk extrusion and transportation"

Li Shengli, a professor and doctoral supervisor at China Agricultural University, director of the China US Dairy Research Center, chief scientist of the National Dairy Industry Technology System, and vice president of the China Dairy Industry Association, stated that there are many factors that affect the freshness of fresh milk, including industry models, logistics efficiency, work traditions, and cost accounting.

He introduced that in most countries, especially in Europe and Oceania, family ranches are the basic unit, with small breeding scales, small daily milk production, and scattered in various places. If we want to achieve "on-demand squeezing and transportation", the logistics cost is relatively high. So, based on historical traditions and practical considerations, these countries may not choose to transport all cows to factories as soon as they are squeezed out. Of course, their cooling equipment is very reliable, and the quality and safety of fresh milk can be guaranteed

In China, it's a different story, "he said. In China, 80% of the farms have 100 or more cows in stock. By 2025, the top 40 dairy groups in China will produce over 20 million tons of milk, with an average of over 5400 cows per farm. Scale and intensification are the main focus. The milking volume on the large ranch is large enough to dilute the logistics cost of milk, and it is completely possible to achieve "squeeze and transport". The high competition in the entire industry has made "squeeze and transport" an unwritten rule. At the same time, China's transportation network is very developed, and the dairy industry is highly intelligent. It has built the world's largest and most intelligent fresh milk logistics system, which has the ability to ensure the freshness and quality safety of fresh milk throughout the entire process. In addition, the ranch will solve the logistics problem at the beginning of planning and construction, and will consider the distance from the factory. Therefore, in China, milk is transported on the same day as milking, and everyone has the motivation, willingness, and ability to do so

The intelligent fresh milk logistics system operates efficiently, ensuring that fresh milk is squeezed and transported immediately, and fresh milk is delivered quickly

For consumers, of course, the fresher the better, "Li Shengli analyzed. The shorter the time it takes for fresh milk to be squeezed out of the pasture and processed in the factory, the smaller the space for microbial growth, and the better the quality of the milk.

Breaking through the 'three levels', milk becomes fresher

For industry leaders like Yili, the amount of milk used each year exceeds that of the 20th largest milk producing country in the world, making it difficult to handle the logistics and transportation of fresh milk.

They need to go through the 'three checkpoints'.

Level 1: How to quickly cool, lock and seal fresh milk after extrusion, and prevent secondary pollution?

Yili's cooperative farms use the most advanced milking equipment to automatically milk the milk, and then use plate heat exchangers to reduce the temperature from around 37 ℃ to around 4 ℃ in just over ten seconds, maximizing the inhibition of bacterial activity and keeping the milk fresh. Subsequently, fresh milk enters the milk tanker through a fully enclosed pipeline and goes directly to the factory.

Level 2: How to ensure the safety and controllability of the transportation process and ensure the safety of fresh milk transportation?

During transportation, the entire process is monitored digitally and analyzed intelligently to eliminate quality and safety hazards. Each milk tanker is equipped with a positioning monitoring system, video monitoring system, electronic lead sealing system, and multi angle cameras. The milk tanker can be located in real time, visually monitored, and digitally traced.

Yili has independently developed an intelligent playback and supervision system for transportation processes. After the milk truck arrives at the factory, it automatically triggers the factory's electronic fence. The system comprehensively analyzes various data collected during the transportation process and uses big data analysis to determine whether there are quality risks and hidden dangers in the transportation process, greatly improving the quality supervision level of the transportation process and ensuring the freshness of fresh milk throughout the process. The milk tanker truck is cleaned immediately after each transportation, and after the last wash of the tank, people can drink it directly.

Level 3: How to ensure freshness when factories and ranches are distributed across the country?

Yili utilizes digital technology to develop intelligent blending models to replace manual decision-making, improve transportation efficiency from pastures to factories, and achieve scientific scheduling of every drop of milk.

Over the years, through optimizing transportation routes, Yili has saved a total of 5.025 million kilometers of transportation mileage and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 193500 kilograms.

Intelligent monitoring and scientific scheduling of the entire milk source flow process from the milking station on the ranch to the factory laboratory

The "Advanced Road of China's Dairy Industry: From Catch up to Surpassing - Top Ten Achievements in the Development of China's Dairy Industry during the 14th Five Year Plan Period" released at the 17th Dairy Industry Conference shows that during the 14th Five Year Plan period, China's dairy industry adhered to high-quality development and jumped to the forefront of the world in key areas such as cow yield, milk quality, safety control, silage technology, pasture management, digital transformation, and milk freshness, achieving unprecedented comprehensive breakthroughs. China has become an important pole in the global dairy industry map. As a leader in the industry, Yili has fully played the role of a navigator, vanguard, and vanguard, becoming the backbone of the industry's development.