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Xinhua Silk Road: E. China’s Rongcheng starts new round of south-north abalone cooperative breeding

Jun 12, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #BEIJING, #China's Rongcheng starts, #China's Shandong Province, #Fishermen in Rongcheng, #Rongcheng, #South-north abalone cooperative breeding, #Xinhua Silk Road

BEIJING, June 12, 2024 — Fishermen in Rongcheng, east China’s Shandong Province have started a new round of abalone breeding in alliance with their partners in southeast China’s Fujian Province to improve the survival rate of abalones, consolidating the south-north abalone cooperative breeding model.

Abalones have very strict requirements on their growing environment, especially the water temperature. The south-north cooperative abalone farming model between Rongcheng and Fujian abalone farmers has lasted for 20 years. The model has been proven as an effective way to meet such requirements and improve the survival rate of abalones.

Specifically, in April and May every year, at the turn of spring and summer, as the sea temperature in the southern China gradually rises, fishermen in Fujian move the abalone fries to the sea area of Rongcheng to escape the heat. And starting from November, when late autumn comes, they return the abalones back to Fujian to enjoy warm winter. It is learned that since mid-April this year, more than 100 million abalones have been shipped to Rongcheng City.

Under the arrangement, abalones are no longer affected by the harsh winter in the north and the scorching heat in the south, and has achieved year-round growth. Besides, the abalone maturity period has been shortened from 18 months to 12 months, and the survival rate of abalones has also increased to more than 90 percent.

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Weihai Enterprise Focuses on American Ginseng Product Development

Jun 5, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #American Ginseng Product Development, #BEIJING, #China's Shandong Province, #Ltd, #MFH, #Shandong Yiyang Biotechnology Co., #Shandong Yiyang Group in 2013, #TCM, #Weihai Enterprise

BEIJING, June 5, 2024  — In the workshops of Shandong Yiyang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Yiyang Biotechnology) in Weihai City, east China’s Shandong Province, four new intelligent production lines recently were busy producing various types of American ginseng products, which were later sent to provinces like Guangdong and Zhejiang after sterilization, drying, packaging and other procedures.

Yiyang Biotechnology, established as a subsidiary of Shandong Yiyang Group in 2013, is a leading enterprise in the American ginseng sector in Weihai City. It is mainly engaged in the cultivation of American ginseng, processing of Chinese medicinal herbs, research and production of health food.

For the public, the most common way to use American ginseng is to slice and brew it in water for drinking. Yiyang Biotechnology has more to offer. It has developed over 30 types of American ginseng products, including canned beverages, bottled beverages, American ginseng-contained paste, tablets, tea bags, and wine.

Believing medicine and food homology (MFH), a concept in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) referring to edible herbal materials can be employed both as food and medicine, is a trend for the development of the health industry, Yiyang Biotechnology began investing in American ginseng production lines as early as 2019 and has built standard production lines.

In November 2023, American ginseng was included in China’s MFH catalog. Yiyang Biotechnology promptly started producing related product series. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, it received orders worth more than 10 million yuan, said Liu Wei, deputy general manager of the company.

The company attaches great importance to technological innovation. It worked with the Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009 and made a breakthrough in breaking American ginseng cell wall. Compared with traditional processing methods, the new technique increased the absorption rate of nutrients in American ginseng to over 96 percent.

The two partners also overcame the technical challenge of extracting saponin, making it easy to add this effective component of American ginseng to oral liquids, cosmetics and other types of products.