Seafood
The seafood segment focuses on various types of seafood, including but not limited to fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish, etc., and also covers seafood processing technology, cold chain logistics, food safety testing and other upstream and downstream technology and services.
In 2024, China's output of seawater products reached 37,088,700 tonnes, a year-on-year increase of 3.45%. Shenzhen, as an important city in South China, is endowed with unique marine resources and well-developed marine industries. The Shenzhen Municipal Government is committed to promoting the high-quality development of the marine economy and has introduced a series of policies to accelerate the construction of a competitive global marine central city. According to relevant data, the scale of Shenzhen's marine economy industry accounts for about 10% of the GDP of the marine production industry in 2019 and will grow at a rate of 30.9% in the first half of 2021.
In order to facilitate the development of food trade in the Greater Bay Area, especially for cold chain products with high time-sensitive requirements, the ports in the region have continued to optimise their supervision and service modes. A number of innovative measures to significantly improve the efficiency of customs clearance. For example, through the integrated declaration and inspection process, the overall customs clearance time of import and export goods is significantly compressed, effectively reducing the risk of fresh food in the port of detention. The application of intelligent standard system at key traffic nodes can achieve instantaneous sharing of information on cross-boundary vehicles and the speacial "green window" inspection channel is set for the fresh and live food. At the same time, the promotion of electronic circulation of inspection and quarantine certificates, paperless customs clearance has become a reality, providing a solid guarantee for the efficient cross-border circulation of various types of food, including aquatic products. These policy dividends are accelerating the construction of an efficient and convenient cold chain logistics network in the Greater Bay Area, laying a key foundation for seizing the new food and beverage track.
In April 2025, the first batch of chilled aquatic products and edible aquatic animals were imported through the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, covering categories such as Australian chilled anchovies and Vietnamese live lobsters. The port through the "air-land fresh food exclusive express" mode (air transport to Hong Kong and Macao and then land transport into the mainland), significantly shortens the cross-border logistics time, reducing the cost of transport enterprises by more than 30%.
According to iiMedia Research, China's frozen food market is expanding. The market size of China's frozen food market has reached 183.54 billion yuan in 2023 and is expected to reach 213.09 billion yuan in 2025. Consumers are more concerned about shelf life and freshness when purchasing frozen food. Convenience is the main reason for purchasing frozen food. Additives (55.1%) and hygiene (43.6%) are the most important concerns for frozen food. Consumers want to see more diversified flavours in frozen food (47.8%) and improved product cost performance (46.4%).
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