A Survey On Halal Food Cultural And Management Of Food Industry

The development of Halal Food industry had caught eyes of all walks of life, Since the "Open-the-door and economic reform" policy was adopted before thirty years.Halal Food,from its mini item as beef-noodles to well-known series of dishes, have been spreading from the Northwest Region of China to all over the country,even into international market.The industry of Halal Food met its summit of prosperity.Yet every cloud has its silver lining -- many problems arisen which had quite unfavorable influence to further development of Halal Food industry,and even resulted in racial conflicts,which greatly hinders the development of the economy of national minority communities.The original intention of this thesis is to provide solutions to some problems arising in the procedure of the development of Halal Food industry by researching Halal Food culture and some special economic development of theory in Halal Food industry.This research project takes two cities,the capital city of Gansu Province and Linxia--Mecca of China as it is called among Muslims in China,as the surveying targets,expounded the connotation and extension of Halal Food culture with detailed data,basis and theoretical studies,indicating that there exist a lot of problems in the administration of Halal Food industry,and proposing some thinking of solutions.This thesis is composed of 6 chapters.The first chapter,"Preface",is focusing on some explanations to the background of the objective of the topic,the reason and meaning of selecting this topic,sorting out the related information in researching this topic,and has made some explanations to the procedure of this research,giving the experience of the writer as well.The second chapter is focusing on the relationship between Islam and Halal Food culture.It startes with researching and studying of Islamic civilization,cultural taboos and the connotation of Halal Food culture, establishing some theoretical foundation and simplifies the characteristics of Halal Food culture.Chapter Three is mainly focusing on the development situation of both Muslim race and Halal Food profession in Gansu Province.It studied,by outdoor surveying,the spreading of Muslim communities and the prevailing situation of Halal Food industry,and the existing problems.Chapter Four is focusing on the most typical problem existing in Halal Food industry which was resulted from the marketing process during these thirty years of economic reform--that is "Halal Foods are not perfectly halal".It researched out the most reasons why such phenomenon exists.The writer holds that if such problems unsolved in a long run, many other problems will surely follow as derivatives,which might have unfavorable influence over the further development of our economy and the social stability. Chapter Five to Six are mainly focusing on exploration of solutions to the above-mentioned problems from the legal point of view,trying to provide a platform with legal protection for the Halal Food industry.These two chapters specifies and analyzes,with outdoor survey and random data collection together with some successful experience adopted in some other countries,the lagging nature and non-scientific nature of the Halal Food professional administration in China under the background of marketing economy and globalization.To unify the various regulations for administration of Halal Food profession and to legislate the national-integrated regulation for administration of Halal Food profession is becoming an urgent demand for National Congress.Chapter Seven is the last chapter and it is the conclusion part of the thesis.The writer points out that the culture is the resources of industry and its spiritual backbone for further development.The Halal Food Industry in China is deeply rooted in two civilization system-- the integration of Islamic culture and Confucian culture of China.This integration is not only providing the power for further development of Halal Food industry in China,making it into numerous variety, and it is just bridging Halal Food industry onto International Halal Food Market as well.By illustration and analysying,this thesis made the two cities--Lanzhou and Linxia as the writer's outdoor surveying viewpoint,taking them as typical cases,and made detailed analysis and further study,concluded out some characteristics of Halal Food industry in Gansu Province and some existing problems,which was put forwarded by the writer and expected to have much attention from other researchers and people of all walks of life.