Chongqing Grain Group Co Ltd, a Chinese food conglomerate, on Wednesday began construction of a food processing zone in Tongnan Industrial Park in Chongqing Municipality, Southwest China.

The food processing zone will cover an area of 600 Mu and will cost RMB 500 million.

The zone will have a processing production capacity of 30,000 tons of rapeseed oil and a storage capacity of 30,000 tons of grain and oil. The project will also include a price warehouse for grain and oil products.

When complete, the project will provide 200 new jobs and realize output value of RMB 200 million per year.