The food industry, as the foundation of people's livelihood, has always been a pillar industry of China's light industry. Against the backdrop of macro strategies such as the all-encompassing approach to food and the Healthy China initiative, the food industry is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. As an important engine to promote high-quality development, new quality productivity can empower the high-quality development of the food industry by driving revolutionary breakthroughs in food science and technology, catalyzing innovative allocation of production factors in the food industry, and promoting deep transformation and upgrading of the food industry. Currently, empowering the high-quality development of the food industry with new quality productivity faces practical challenges such as industry difficulties, subject difficulties, and institutional difficulties. To this end, we should further optimize the industry, layout the food industry in a gradient manner, provide classified guidance, and coordinate the relationship between promoting development and ensuring safety. Strengthen talent support, establish a diversified system for cultivating innovative talents in the food industry, and improve a long-term mechanism for collaborative development among multiple stakeholders in industry, academia, research, and application. Improve institutional safeguards to facilitate an effective market for the government, and continuously optimize the business environment in response to the pain points and difficulties faced by the food industry's development.