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