Policy Interpretation and Trend Analysis of Pig Seed Industry

Policy Interpretation and Trend Analysis of Pig Seed Industry

I Introduction

As an important part of animal husbandry, the pig industry has an irreplaceable strategic position in ensuring national food safety, stabilizing the supply of meat market and promoting the sustained growth of agricultural economy. Under the dual background of globalization and marketization, China is the world's largest producer and consumer of pork, and the healthy and sustainable development of its pig breeding industry is particularly critical. Improved varieties are not only the cornerstone of enhancing the core competitiveness of the pig industry, but also a decisive factor in promoting industrial transformation and upgrading and achieving high-quality development.

In recent years, China's pig seed industry has made remarkable achievements in technological innovation, variety improvement and industrial integration. However, with the intensification of resource and environmental constraints, the diversification of market demand and the increasingly fierce international competition, the pig breeding industry is also facing unprecedented challenges. Especially in the current situation that there is a huge gap in the high-quality pork market, how to balance the relationship between meat production and meat quality, and how to design and cultivate new high-quality pig breeds has become a major problem to be solved urgently in China's pig breeding industry. This requires not only the guidance and support of policies, but also the joint action of scientific research innovation, industrial coordination and market mechanism.

Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to deeply interpret the latest national policy on pig seed industry, systematically analyze the current development status of pig seed industry, explore its future development trend, and put forward corresponding countermeasures. It is expected that through the implementation of the design and cultivation project of high-quality new pig breeds, the formation of new productivity of China's pig breeding industry will be accelerated, and the overall improvement of China's pig industry in terms of quantity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness will be promoted, so as to make greater contributions to ensuring national food safety and promoting sustainable development of animal husbandry.

Two New Quality Productivity and Pig Breeding

Under the background of the rapid progress of science and technology and the in-depth implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, the new quality productivity has become the key driving force for the high-quality development of the pig seed industry. The core of the so-called new quality productivity lies in the double promotion of "new" and "quality". This concept has far-reaching significance in the field of pig breeding.

The new quality productivity is not a simple upgrade of the traditional productivity, but involves the overall improvement of the basic elements of productivity such as laborers, labor materials and labor objects. From an economic point of view, the factors of productivity include workers, labor materials and labor objects, that is, people, tools and processing objects. New quality productivity refers to the double promotion of "new" and "quality" in these three aspects. In the field of pig breeding, this means the need for high-quality workers, high-tech labor materials and a wider range of labor objects.

Specifically, high-quality workers refer to those pig breeding researchers and technicians with professional knowledge and innovative ability. They not only need to master traditional breeding techniques, but also need to have modern genetics, bioinformatics and other interdisciplinary knowledge, and be able to use new technologies and new methods to improve and innovate pig breeds. Such a workforce is the key force to promote the formation of new quality productivity in the pig seed industry.

High-tech labor materials include advanced breeding equipment, research and development technology platforms, and information technology. The application of these new labor data can greatly improve the efficiency and accuracy of pig breeding, shorten the breeding cycle, reduce the cost of breeding, and promote the development of pig breeding industry to higher quality and higher efficiency.

A wider range of labor objects refers to the inclusion of more types of genetic resources, breeding data and related scientific and technological achievements into the scope of pig breeding. With the rapid development of biotechnology, more and more genetic resources and data are mined and utilized, which provides more abundant materials and broader space for pig breeding. At the same time, the transformation and application of relevant scientific and technological achievements have also brought new opportunities and challenges for pig breeding.

To promote the formation of new quality productivity in the field of pig breeding, it needs the synergy of policy, science and technology, industry and so on. In terms of policy, it is necessary to increase support for the innovation of the pig seed industry, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, and create a good innovation environment. In terms of science and technology, it is necessary to strengthen basic research and application research and development, and promote the application and transformation of new technologies and methods in the field of pig breeding. In terms of industry, it is necessary to strengthen industry-university-research cooperation, promote collaborative innovation in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and form a good industrial ecology.

Three Central Document No. 1 to our country.

Guiding Significance of Pig Breeding Industry

The No. 1 Central Document every year is a manifestation of the country's high attention and importance to agriculture, rural areas and farmers. In recent years, with the deepening of China's agricultural supply-side structural reform, pig breeding industry, as an important part of animal husbandry, has received extensive attention at the national level. Generally speaking, the guiding significance of the Central No. 1 document for the pig breeding industry in recent years is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

First of all, the Central Document No. 1 emphasizes the important position of pig breeding industry in the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure. The document clearly points out that animal husbandry is one of the key areas of agricultural industrial structure adjustment, and pig, as the main breed of animal husbandry in China, the development level of its breeding industry is directly related to the overall competitiveness of China's animal husbandry. Therefore, the Central Document No. 1 attaches great importance to the pig breeding industry, which points out the direction for the high-quality development of animal husbandry in China.

Secondly, the central document No. 1 put forward the development goal and direction of pig breeding industry. The document emphasizes the need to accelerate the implementation of the seed industry's independent innovation strategy, improve the seed industry's technological innovation capabilities, and cultivate a batch of excellent varieties with independent intellectual property rights. For the pig breeding industry, this means that it is necessary to increase investment in scientific research and improve the technical level of pig breeding and improvement to meet the market demand for high-quality, efficient and green pig products. At the same time, through independent innovation and technological progress, the international competitiveness of China's pig breeding industry will be enhanced.

Again, the central document No. 1 on the pig breeding industry support policy is clear and detailed. The document proposes to strengthen the protection and utilization of germplasm resources, establish and improve the protection system of germplasm resources, and strengthen the protection of local varieties. This will help to protect and utilize the rich pig breeding resources in China, and provide a strong guarantee for the sustainable development of pig breeding industry. At the same time, the document also emphasizes the need to strengthen the construction of the breeding system of improved varieties and improve the supply capacity of improved varieties to meet the demand for excellent provenances in pig production. This will help improve the overall level and competitiveness of the pig breeding industry.

In addition, the No. 1 document of the Central Committee in 2024 further emphasized the importance of seed industry revitalization in agricultural development in the "(11) in-depth implementation of seed industry revitalization action" under the chapter of "strengthening agricultural science and technology and equipment support". And put forward specific measures to promote the development of the seed industry. Among them, the completion of the national agricultural germplasm resources survey, the construction of an open, collaborative, and shared germplasm resources precise identification and evaluation mechanism and other measures will provide a more accurate and efficient provenance guarantee for the pig breeding industry. At the same time, the comprehensive implementation of major biological breeding projects, the solid promotion of national breeding joint research and livestock and poultry genetic improvement programs and other measures will help speed up the cultivation and promotion of new pig varieties.

Finally, the Central Document No. 1 also optimized the development environment of the pig breeding industry. The document calls for deepening the reform of the rural land system, improving the rural property rights system and management system, and stimulating the vitality of rural development. This will provide a broader development space and a more superior development environment for the pig breeding industry, attract more social capital and technical forces to invest in the pig breeding industry, and promote the high-quality development of the industry.

IV. Implementation of relevant policies

Since the state issued the relevant policies on pig breeding industry, governments at all levels and relevant units have actively responded and worked hard to promote the implementation of the policies. On the one hand, it has increased capital investment in the pig seed industry to support scientific research institutions and enterprises to carry out pig genetic improvement and new breed cultivation; on the other hand, it has also strengthened the supervision of the pig seed industry and severely cracked down on illegal and illegal breeding. Industry behavior to maintain market order and a fair competition environment.

In terms of specific implementation, various localities have formulated more detailed policy measures and implementation plans based on their own actual conditions. The policy is largely implemented in three ways.

First of all, the layout of major projects in the seed industry, to carry out the main characteristics of pig formation mechanism and other basic research, to explore excellent genetic resources. For example, Hunan Province has always been a major pig province in the country. How to stabilize pig production and strengthen the pig industry is very important for the province to build a strong agricultural province. In this context, in December 2023, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Hunan Province issued the "Ten Measures for Stabilizing Pig Production and Strengthening the Pig Industry in Hunan Province." The document pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the promotion of joint breeding of pigs, increase the protection and utilization of local breeds of pigs, support the construction of the Yuelu Mountain Livestock and Poultry Seed Industry Innovation Center, speed up the selection and breeding of lean pigs and the use of local pig breeds to cultivate new varieties, and build a number of breeding and promotion integration of modern seed industry base. By 2025, the province's pig seed industry output value will reach more than 24 billion yuan.

Secondly, strengthen the development and utilization of local pig breeds. Local breed is an important resource to study the genetic basis of porcine phenotypic traits, and it is an important gene treasure house to carry out new variety breeding. For example, Qijin Shuangchang Smart Pig Farm, located in the Shuangchang Industrial Cooperation Demonstration Park of Chengdu-Chongqing High-efficiency Characteristic Agriculture Belt, has been completed and put into operation, which will increase the protection and development and utilization of Rongchang pigs and Neijiang pigs. It is reported that Qijin Shuangchang Smart Pig Farm is a demonstration project of Rongchang pig breeding in Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle built by Chongqing Rongchang District People's Government and Sichuan Longchang City People's Government in Shuangchang Industrial Cooperation Demonstration Park. The pig farm covers an area of about 28 mu, and the design scale is to keep 10 Rongchang boars and 360 sows all the year round, with a total construction area of about 3600 square meters.

Finally, a perfect commercial breeding system for breeding pigs was established. For example, in Beijing, in September 2023, the 30th China Beijing Seed Industry Conference opened. After years of exploration and development, the industrial chain of breeding, seed production and seed use in Beijing seed industry has gradually shown the remarkable characteristics of "breeding in Beijing, seed production and seed use outside. In order to continue to build the "seed industry capital", Beijing issued the "Beijing seed industry revitalization implementation plan" in 2022 to promote the "4520 action" as a whole, that is, around the four major seed industries of crops, livestock and poultry, aquatic products, forest, fruit and flowers, implement five major actions: protection and utilization of germplasm resources, seed industry innovation, seed industry enterprise support, innovation base upgrading, and innovation environment optimization. In terms of optimizing the innovation environment of the seed industry, the Beijing seed regulations and the implementation Plan for the Revitalization of the Beijing seed Industry have been promulgated and implemented in an orderly manner, attracting the world's top 10 seed enterprises to set up branches in Beijing. the layout and construction of Pinggu, Tongzhou, Yanqing and Nanfan four seed industry public service platforms.

Five guiding directions of pig breeding policy in China

China's pig breeding policy plays an important guiding role in promoting the sustainable and healthy development of the industry and enhancing the international competitiveness. Combined with the current policy direction and the development trend of pig seed industry, the following guiding directions can be summarized:

Strengthen scientific and technological support and enhance the innovation ability of pig seed industry. Scientific and technological innovation is the core driving force to promote the high-quality development of pig seed industry. The policy will continue to increase support for scientific research and innovation in the pig seed industry, encourage scientific research institutions and enterprises to strengthen basic research and applied research and development, tap excellent genetic resources, and cultivate excellent varieties with independent intellectual property rights. At the same time, strengthen exchanges and cooperation with international advanced levels, introduce, digest and absorb international advanced technologies, and improve the overall innovation level of my country's pig seed industry.

Optimize the industrial structure and promote the transformation and upgrading of the pig seed industry. The policy will guide the pig seed industry to develop in the direction of scale, intensification and high efficiency, optimize the industrial structure and improve the industrial concentration. By supporting leading enterprises to become bigger and stronger, cultivate a group of internationally competitive pig breeding enterprises, and drive the transformation and upgrading of the entire industry. At the same time, enterprises are encouraged to strengthen industry-university-research cooperation, promote collaborative innovation in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and form a good industrial ecology.

Strengthen market supervision and regulate the market order of the pig seed industry. Establish and improve the protection system of germplasm resources, strengthen the protection and utilization of local varieties, and prevent the loss of germplasm resources. At the same time, we should improve the standard system and quality inspection system of pig breeding industry, improve the quality and health level of breeding pigs, and ensure the sustainable development of pig industry.

Deepen international cooperation and exchanges to enhance the international competitiveness of the pig seed industry. In the face of global market competition, the policy will actively promote international cooperation and exchanges in the pig breeding industry. Strengthen cooperation with countries around the world in germplasm resources, breeding technology, talent training, etc., and jointly promote the progress and development of the global pig seed industry. Through the introduction of foreign excellent germplasm resources and advanced technology, combined with China's actual digestion and absorption and re innovation, enhance the international competitiveness of China's pig seed industry.