About COFCO
Founded in 1949, the same year as the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, COFCO Corporation is a large-scale central SOE focusing on agriculture business, with significant presence in the food, finance, and real estate sectors. Years of development have now made it one of the world-leading international agri-food businesses.
As of the end of 2025, the total assets of COFCO exceeded 700 billion RMB, with a revenue of 589.1 billion RMB.
We are a key facilitator of the world’s agri-food supply chain with global businesses and the whole industry chain. COFCO has established an extensive multinational agri-food supply chain network covering storage, logistics, processing, and trade, with operations spanning six continents and assets distributed across nearly 40 countries and regions, which enables an agri-food operation of 180 million tons. With its portfolio of products like grains, oils, sugars, and cotton, COFCO strategically positions itself in regions with the greatest potential for agri-food supply growth, such as South America and the Black Sea, as well as consumer markets in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Africa, which cover more than half of the global population. By investing in storage facilities, ports, terminals, railways, as well as a large modern fleet for maritime transport of bulk grains, with major agri-food processing sites and a global trade network, COFCO has established a major agri-food trade corridor that connects the Eastern and Western Hemispheres and empowers a more stable and efficient global agri-food supply.
We are a trailblazer in driving the transformation and upgrading of China’s agri-food sector at scale, and we stay committed to driving transformation of traditional industries through innovation. COFCO is both the main channel for China’s agri-food imports and exports and an important constructor of the domestic Chinese logistics corridor that transports northern grains to the south. In China’s domestic market, COFCO leads the industry in trading agricultural products, processing oilseeds, rice, corn and wheat, and operating sugar, corn and cotton. Our volume is supported by compatible logistics capabilities and massive modern processing capacities. In key logistics regions such as the eastern coastal areas and along the Yangtze River, we have formed modern agri-food logistics hubs, notably the Beiliang Port in Dalian and the Jingjiang Terminal in Jiangsu. Over 200 COFCO processing facilities, including the largest grain & oil processing industrial park in Asia, now spread across the major agri-food producing areas and markets in China. We are accelerating cultivation of new quality productive forces in the agri-food sector, so as to reshape traditional industries through sci-tech innovation. Based on close collaboration with hundreds of thousands of partners across the industry chain, we are jointly building a modern agri-food industrial system.
We are a creator of outstanding food brands and a leader in promoting nutrition and health for all people. COFCO provides Chinese consumers with small-packaged products of rice, flour, edible oil, sugar, wines & spirits, beverages, meat, tea, and dairy, with more than four million sales outlets across the country, covering all urban markets and over 95 percent of rural markets. The first bottles of dry red and dry white of the PRC were made by COFCO, and China’s first state-owned tea company was founded by COFCO. Brands such as Fortune, Greatwall, ChinaTea, Joycome, Jiugui, Lohas, and Mengniu, growing within the COFCO family tree, have gained widespread acclaim and national popularity. Going hand in hand with the brand-building efforts is COFCO’s extensive research on the nutritional needs of Chinese consumers to get ahead of the national dietary improvement.
We are a comprehensive financial platform that primarily serves our core agri-food businesses and continuously advances the integration of the agri-food sector and the financial industry. Our financial services cover futures, trusts, insurance, and industrial funds. We have developed a financial service chain complemented by industrial funds, fintech, and overseas business, with a focus on three innovative areas: supply chain finance, agricultural finance, and wellness finance. These services provide financial support for the agricultural industry chain and supply chain.
We are a service provider in urban development and people’s lives based on a commitment to urban renewal and new retailing. We continue to drive multi-sector synergy, with businesses across commercial complexes, residential properties, industrial real estate, hotels, office buildings, long-term rental apartments, and property services. With presence in nearly 40 core cities across first- and second-tier markets, we are shaping a diversified Joy ecosystem that integrates diverse business formats, well-planned urban layouts, and optimized asset structures, creating lifestyle spaces for the public. As of 2025, Joy Cities are open in over 25 Chinese cities, with more than 40 projects under construction, and are set to join the high-quality development of commercial real estate in a landscape defined by increasingly diverse consumer experiences.
In the future, COFCO will continue to enhance its competitiveness centered on its core agri-food business, strive to be a leading player in independent sci-tech innovation, modern industrial system, and the cultivation of new productive forces. The company will deepen corporate reform, make more contributions to comprehensive rural revitalization, pursue higher-quality development, and accelerate towards a world-class enterprise with global competitiveness and influence.
