Tannery Industry Opens Up New Market For Pet Products

"Niu Mo Wang" cup 2014 CKU all dog species China champion Zhejiang tournament was recently held in Pingyang, Wenzhou.

The reason why the county can successfully attract CKU to organize competitions in the county-level cities for the first time in the country is obviously inseparable from the development of the local pet products industry.

From "China skin capital" to the national pet export base, Pingyang successfully turned a new market in the process of leather industry pformation and upgrading.

Dare to be first

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In the early 90s of twentieth Century, the water head town of Pingyang county was famous for leather making. The total output value of tannery industry reached 3 billion 729 million yuan at its peak time. It was known as "China skin capital".

However, serious environmental pollution and tanning almost simultaneously become famous. In 2003, the pollution of tannery base was listed by the State Environmental Protection Agency as the ten most typical environmental offences in the country and one of nine environmental violations in the province.

That year, the local government was determined to "sacrifice GDP and financial revenue at all costs". The development of leather industry is faced with a severe test of pformation and upgrading.

At that moment, the Pingyang people with a keen sense of business sense * were aiming at the huge business opportunities in the pet market and devoted themselves to the pet industry that no one had ever set foot in before.

The two or three layers of leftovers, which are processed and processed by rinsing, shaping and drying, become high protein pet food. They are sold to the international market, from low to high, from decentralization to concentration, from simple to standardized, from single to comprehensive, from independent to standard, from initial processing to refined refining. After more than 20 years of development, the derivative industry developed in leather industry has become one of the main local characteristic industries.

Transformation and upgrading

Become a place

By the end of 2010, the county was jointly established by the Provincial Department of Commerce and the finance department as the first batch of export bases.

Nowadays, there are 21 pet food enterprises on the hot soil, of which 14 are mainly dog bites, and the total output value of pet chewing food is about 2 billion yuan.

Pet products are full of pet products, including snacks, meat, biscuits and so on. There are also outdoor items such as multifunctional pet chest bags, pack bags, dog belts and decorative clothing products, such as pet gowns. There are more than 60 series, thousands of products, most of which are exported to more than 20 countries and regions, such as Europe and America.

In 2013, the export volume of pet articles in the county was 166 million 850 thousand US dollars, up 8.97% from the same period last year, accounting for 24.7% of the total export volume of the whole county. The total number of pet bites food exports accounted for about 63% of the total products of the whole country (including enterprises' exports in the province).

The local government has established three major foreign trade public service platforms, including pet food irradiation sterilization technology, pet food public inspection center, pet bitten raw materials processing technology research and development center, which has played an escort role in promoting the quality and safety of exported pet food and successfully avoiding trade barriers in Europe and the United States.

Upgrade again

Creating pet tourism

Recently, the 2014 light industry foreign trade base construction conference held in Shenzhen brought good news. Pingyang county has become the only "export base for pet products in China".

"Our next plan is to vigorously develop pet tourism projects."

According to Yong Yong, Secretary General of Pingyang Pet Association, under the circumstances of limited growth in the international market, the pet products industry in Pingyang county will turn its attention to the domestic market. It is actively planning the way of pformation and development, expanding the new development space, developing the Dog Inn, bird paradise and other projects with the help of local Nan Yan landscape resources, and developing the tourism industry of.

"At that time, tourists from home and abroad will be able to visit Pingyang with their favorite pets."

At that time, Pingyang will add a new gold card at home and abroad.

He said that the pet products industry is a newly rising sunrise industry with huge prospects for development, and its derivatives industry is numerous, which is of great significance to the development of local economy.