• About SZAP
  • Company Profile
  • Shenzhen Agricultural Products Co., Ltd., which regards the investment, development, construction, operation and management of wholesale markets of agricultural products as its core business, is one of the largest chain management enterprises in the industry and the first public company in circulation of the domestic agricultural industry. After 21years of development, SZAP has developed into the large-scale circulation agricultural modernization group enterprise with total assets 9.6 billion RMB, net assets 4.1billion RMB.

    SZAP has invested in 21 cities successively including Shenzhen, Nanchang, Shanghai, Changsha, Beijing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Liuzhou, Hefei, Huizhou, Kunming, Shenyang, Changchun, Nanning, Yinchuan, Bengbu, Jinan, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Jiujiang and Wuhan, establishing more than 32 integrated large-scale wholesale markets of agricultural products and the on-line trading markets of the staple agricultural products. It has built a nationwide platform of agricultural products exchange, logistics and comprehensive services initially and has become the first brand name in the wholesale market of agricultural products. In year of 2010, the total annual trading volume of subsidiary wholesale markets (including online trading market)   reached nearly 23 million tons, and the total volume of transaction came to 106 billion yuan, which constituted about 10% of total volume of the national-scale wholesale markets. There is 40,000 wholesaler 40,000 vehicles, 20 million people involved in daily transactions in the subsidiary wholesale markets for providing nearly 70,000 tons agricultural products to urban residents and more than 200 million consumers are supplied with quality and safe agricultural products.

    The company consistently insists on reform and innovation, by establishing a nationalsystem ofwholesale marketsof agricultural products, it plays a irreplaceable role in protecting the urbanfood supply ensuring foodsafety and quality, stabilizing food prices, improving theefficiency of distribution ofagricultural supply,helping farmers to achieveincreasingproduct valueandincome , propelling agriculturalindustrialization and promoting the solving of thethree ruralproblems, and achieves good economicand social benefits.

    In recent years, by virtue of information technology, industrial upgrading , business modeltransformation, the company realized the transformation of management style from the "single point of management" to "network management”, made the wholesale market changefromtraditional one withthe rentalincomeas the mainbusinessto advanced green transaction wholesale marketand also made the traditional wholesale market reborn as amodernagriculturallogistics serviceplatform:

    Firstly, drastically industrial restructuring. By concentrating advantageous resources and establishing agricultural circulation network ,the company successfully achieved the goals of ensuring supply as well as  balancing price .In recent years, the company withdrew from sixteen non-core business projects, with the returned funds of more than a billion dollars, we expanded the 31 wholesale and bulk agricultural commodities online trading markets in the major cities of China, forming the largest Network of agricultural  wholesale markets at home and abroad. The covered wholesale markets are all the important Vegetable-Basket in central cities .And through perfect cooperation, logistics, information sharing as well as interconnection, the markets within the network played a great role in timely giving the mutual help for each other to ensure the supply. Besides, by analysis on Price of agricultural products and trend of single product within the network and the comparison on price of different markets, it provided referential information for timely arranging the supply of agricultural products,guaranteeing the supply and demand balance,stabilizing prices and monitoring of agricultural price from the government. Subsidiary market as Huizhou Market was awarded with the title of "basket contingency reserve base" by Guangdong province ,during the period of natural disaster, it played a major role as a reservoir  in supply of local agricultural products and balancing the price .in 2008,during the snow disaster, Buji market organizing more than 200 wholesalers to go to Hainan, Yunnan, Guangxi and other provinces to allocate agricultural products totaled 20,000 tons, and cut more than 0.6 million yuan for the transportation vehicles, which ensure the market supply in Shenzhen.

    Secondly, with technology upgrading and information service, makes the marketability and income increasing of farmers come true. by resources and information integration, supply chain financing, logistics cost cutting, combination of ensuring urban supply and farmer’s income, made the daily demands from radiated consumers by physical markets as the consumption terminals, and guided and organized wholesalers to contact and place the order with the cooperative organizations in rural areas or docking agent, which can help farmers to expand the capacity and improve the process without any Concern on sales. All these steps greatly promoted the agricultural development.  Nationwide physical wholesale markets and logistics systems became the important support, and formed the distribution network, which provided the services for the whole country.Currently, the online transactions of sugar, silk, cotton, bananas, apples and other agricultural products achieved tangible results, and the marketability promoted the sales of products. Subsidiary company Guangxi Sugar-net Wholesale Market, with the"e-commerce + logistics" model of innovation, shortened the circulation period from traditionally 7-15 days to 1-3 days, and cute the purchasing cost from traditionally RMB 25 per ton to RMB 7 per ton, and born the service of sugar’s purchasing, sales and distribution of a quarter’s volume of whole country, these effectively promote industrial development and the three rural stability. And due to the lower distribution costs, it leaves the more than 100 million yuan’s income increase for Sugarcane owners.

    Thirdly, the upgrading of traditional wholesale market and to create the high tier brand. By advocating the idea of  green trading,exploring new food safety mechanism to meet the urban consumer’s demand for quality improvement, we took the lead in setting up the Hyperian green market, which realized the industry upgrading of domestic wholesale markets. When designing the Hyperian market, the Vehicle were not allowed to come to prevent food being contaminated by exhaust gas, and to keep the products’ fresh, the trading greenhouse was equipped with air conditioners, and solar energy, water recycling, energy saving and environmental protection were well used. The newly green market not only ensured the quality of agricultural products, but also improves the efficiency of the transaction to achieve the goals of low carbon environment. Weestablished the rapid response mechanisms for food safety By drawing the risk map, enhanced the Pre-warning of the network markets, We also Established third-party laboratory to make the testing mode’s upgrading and innovation.

    At present, Shenzhen Pinghu Hyperian International Logistics Park is under construction .In order to improve the ability to enhance food security, we specially set up the testing technology center(third-party laboratory),with the help of  third-party laboratory, the detection capability will be greatly enhanced, and the testing terms covered pesticide residues , conventional physico-chemical, microorganism, nutritional components , genetically modified components and so on, at same time,test results and the trading process will be linked to the effectively protect the agricultural products quality and safety, and will establish a better food safety traceability system.