From Inner Mongolia According to the Economic and Information Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the 2016/2017 sugar production season Inner Mongolia created the highest level in the region's sugar industry in 61 years, laying a solid foundation for achieving the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" development goals of the autonomous region's sugar industry. A total of 950,000 mu of sugar beets were planted this season, an increase of 270,000 mu year-on-year; 3.01 million tons of sugar beets were purchased, and 463,300 tons of sugar were produced, an increase of 887,400 tons and 70,500 tons respectively compared to the previous sugar production season. The average sugar content of sugar beet slices was 14.64%, and the sugar yield of sugar beet was 11.67%, a decrease of 1.44 and 1.70 percentage points respectively year-on-year.

　　In the 2016/2017 sugar production season, the national sugar crop planting area was 20.937 million mu, a decrease of 412,000 mu year-on-year; the national sugar production was 9.288 million tons, an increase of 586,000 tons year-on-year, of which: sugarcane sugar accounted for 88.73%, sugar beet sugar accounted for 11.27%. All sugar in our region is sugar beet sugar, accounting for 44.25% of the national total of sugar beet sugar.

　　In the 2016/2017 sugar production season, Inner Mongolia's sugar sales amounted to 2.994 billion yuan (national sugar industry sales revenue 65.82 billion yuan), total profit 225 million yuan (national sugar industry profit 3.2 billion yuan), and fiscal tax revenue 198 million yuan (national sugar industry fiscal tax revenue 3.43 billion yuan).

　　According to statistics from the Autonomous Region Sugar Industry Association, there are currently 6 sugar factories in our region, with a production capacity of 22,000 tons/day. Next year, it is planned to resume production, expand, and build 7 new sugar factories and increase production capacity to 55,000 tons/day by 2018/2019.

　　Relevant experts suggest that: In the next step, relevant departments should promptly pay attention to expanding the planting area of sugar beets, strengthening mechanized harvesting and cutting levels, and improving the enterprise's storage capacity; various places should plan sugar factories in a timely, scientific, reasonable, and suitable manner to prevent the formation of vicious competition within the region; provide corresponding policy support for the sugar industry, referring to the subsidy policies for crops such as corn, wheat, and potatoes, providing financial subsidies to sugar beet growers and their harvesting machinery to reduce the burden on farmers planting sugar beets; increase the efforts to transform, energy-saving and environmental protection, informatization, and intelligent upgrading of sugar enterprises, improve quality and efficiency, reduce costs and increase income, improve the profitability and market competitiveness of sugar enterprises, and at the same time, promote the transformation and upgrading of the sugar industry in our region, and achieve the sustained, healthy, and orderly development of the entire industry.

Source: Yunnan Sugar Network