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BINZHOU, China, Nov. 15, 2023 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

On Nov. 11-12, the 16th (2023) China Cattle Industry Development Conference was

held in Yangxin County of Shandong with a theme of "Cluster sharing, improving

quality and efficiency, and driving high-quality development of the entire

industry chain." More than 800 experts, scholars and entrepreneurs nationwide

gathered in Yangxin County to discuss the cooperation vision and the future of

the high-quality development of the cattle industry.

At the opening ceremony, the hosting party introduced the beef cattle

industry's development status in the county, released the county's standard for

the complete industrial chain of beef cattle and the system for the breeding

and propagation of "Yangxin Black Cattle," and revealed that the regional

public brand value of "Yangxin Beef" was 21.026 billion yuan. Several projects

were signed such as bank-enterprise cooperation, cold chain logistics, beef

import and export, and pre-made food processing. The event also held a dialogue

of "Cattle Industry Insiders" from leading enterprises, a keynote forum on the

cattle industry's high-quality development, and a summit forum on international

beef trade. The guests attending the event also visited the cattle culture

exhibition hall of the Cattle Intelligence Valley Scientific Innovation Center,

the Shandong Limu Biological Breeding Laboratory and Yangxin County

Comprehensive Inspection and Testing Center.

The development of the beef cattle industry in Yangxin County has a long

history and is richly endowed by nature. The county is one of the top 100

husbandry counties in China, one of the demonstrative counties for standardized

beef cattle, the main production area of quality livestock species Luxi Yellow

Cattle and Bohai Black Cattle in China and the largest beef cattle farming and

processing distribution center in north China. It has been approved and

certified as a national and provincial modern agricultural industrial park, as

well as being selected as one of the "top 10" industrial clusters in Shandong

Province, and as an advantageous special industrial cluster of beef cattle

along the Yellow River. Its industrial revenue has reached 60 billion yuan.

Source: News Office of the People's Government of Binzhou