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Following the rapid expansion of the number of paddy fields from the late 1980s, the Sanjiang Plain of Northeast China has been transformed into one of the leading production areas of japonica rice in Asia. State farms, which are managed by the General Bureau of State Farms in Heilongjiang Province and four other management authorities, have played a vital role in this progress. One of the more than 100 farms that make up the General Bureau of State Farms in Heilongjiang Province is the Heilongjiang Agriculture Co. Ltd., which was formed based on 16 farms. Its branch company, Heilongjiang Beidahuang Rice Industry Group Co. Ltd., is responsible for the processing and marketing functions of the large rice production area.In this paper, we use State Farm 854, which maintains a rice-processing plant and is one of the farms of Beidahuang Rice Industry Group Co. Ltd., as a subject to study the following three aspects: the operation and current status of the large-scale rice business; changes in unhulled rice and a rice-processing system that corresponds to the expansion of rice production; and development of rice-milling enterprises in the farm. Despite the development of rice-milling companies outside state farms, privatization proceeds as new private enterprises are established inside state farms.