In the current era where the pig farming industry is accelerating towards large-scale and high-efficiency operations, the quality of breeding sources has become the core competitiveness for enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Relevant data shows that from 2020 to 2024, the import volume of breeding pigs in China decreased by 87%, reflecting that domestic breeding technology has reversed its reliance on imports.

In February 2025, the Central Document No. 1 clearly proposed to accelerate the cultivation of new agricultural productive forces. For the first time, biotechnology breeding technology was incorporated into the national agricultural development strategy system. Under this strategic guidance, pig breeding, as the core link of the pig industry, has become a key approach to breaking through the "critical bottleneck" predicament and achieving cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

Relying blindly on imports will never enable us to obtain the best breeding pigs. Instead, it may even lead to a vicious cycle of 'introducing breeds - causing degradation - and then reintroducing them', which will affect sustainable development. On March 2025, Professor Zhu Li from Sichuan Agricultural University pointed out at the third Golden Summit Forum on Animal Genetic Breeding that：Future localized breeding represents an irreplaceable advantage.

On April 28, 2025, the state-run media "Farmer's Daily" published an article on its China Agricultural Network, stating: China has achieved remarkable progress in pig genetic improvement, with the production efficiency of core breeding pigs significantly enhanced. Currently, the self-sufficiency rate of core breeding pigs of the lean meat type exceeds 90%; the Yongcheng Breeding Group takes only 152.53 days to reach a weight of 120 kilograms at the correct age, and the local selected Duroc boars have reached the advanced level of the world.

In conclusion, in the future, we need to further strengthen research on breeding technologies, improve the breeding innovation system, promote high-quality development of the seed industry, and comprehensively lay a solid foundation for agricultural modernization in terms of seed technology.

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—— The genetic upgrade plans for 70% of the pig farming enterprises in the region

Currently, the classification method based on the origin country of the breeding pigs (such as American type, Danish type) or the new and old breeds (such as New American type) is not scientific. This is because different breeding companies in the same country have significantly different breeding directions, and the performance of breeding pigs is continuously improving every year. There is no such thing as a "new or old breed". A more scientific classification should be based on the breeding company, for example: Yongcheng type. The genetic direction of the breeding pigs of the breeding company is stable and their performance can be traced. This can truly reflect the genetic progress and breeding value of the breeding pigs.

Business Value: Why Do Leading Listed Companies All Choose Yongcheng?

Through the tri-breed hybridization system of Duroc, Large White and Landrace, Yongcheng Breeding Group is able toAchieve the production standard for commercial pigs, with them reaching 120kg at 146 days of age and 159.6kg at 180 days of age for market release.Compared with the industry's standard level of 120kg weight at the age of 160-180 days, the commercial pigs are at a different stage.The "breeding pig delivery age of Yongcheng Company has been advanced by 14 to 34 days!Taking 14 days as an example for calculation, the average daily weight gain of "Yongcheng Group" commercial pigs is 1.2 kg. In 14 days, they can gain 16.8 kg. Based on the pig price of 15 yuan per kg,On average, each pig can increase income by 252 yuan!

Yongcheng Breeding adheres to the principle of "balanced breeding".Focus on improving the important traits, avoid excessive pursuit of a single trait, and instead strive to achieve the common improvement of multiple important traits. The improvement of these traits can bring higher breeding benefits to the pig farm. The average annual litter size of Yongcheng purebred sows is more than 2.4, the individual weight of the born piglets is greater than 1.5 kg, and the individual weight of the weaned piglets at 21 days is more than 7.0 kg.

Fujian Yongcheng Breeding Technology Group Co., Ltd. was established in 1992.It is a national core breeding facility, engaged in professional genetic improvement of pig breeds and related breeding research and development.The company adheres to the strategy of specialized breeding and does not engage in the breeding of commercial sows or the operation of large-scale commercial boar stations.Ensure the purity of genetic resources.After more than three decades of research and development efforts in breeding technology, we have achieved independent breeding capabilities.Breeding our own breed - the Yongcheng line of breeding pigs,Its excellent features better meet the demands of the Chinese market, and its overall performance has reached the advanced level of the international market.

Yongcheng Breeding Group ownsThree genetic core breeding farms, four binary breeding expansion farms, and many permanent genetic certification boar stations.The core group of Yongcheng is quite large.Currently, there are a total of 5,000 sows of the core breeding groups of the three breeds - Duroc, Hanbai and Da Bai.It provided abundant genetic resources for breeding work.

Yongcheng insists on conducting large-scale growth performance tests on breeding pigs.The on-site measurement can reach up to 80 heads per hour at the fastest.In 2023, the total number of animals measured by the group reached 21,392, and in 2024, it exceeded 25,486.

- 2023 Annual Total Quantity of Yongcheng Breeding Group -

- Total measurement quantity of Yongcheng Breeding Group in 2024 -

The average weight of Duroc boars in Yongcheng Breeding Group is 120 kilograms at the corrected age.Compared to the average level of national pig core farms, the improvement rate is 15-20 days. From February 2024 to March 2025, it remained the top-ranked in the national core breeding farm Duroc pig monthly corrected age list for 14 consecutive months!

As the concentration of the pig farming industry continues to increase, China's pig farming sector is accelerating its transformation towards a "performance revolution" of lean management. In this profound industry transformation, breakthroughs in independent breeding and optimization of pig genetics are becoming the core driving force for reshaping the competitive landscape of the industry. Yongcheng Pig Breeding has leveraged its core technological strength in independent breeding to build a localized source system. Currently, it covers 70% of the listed pig farming enterprises. This not only resolves the "strangling" situation in the seed industry but also promotes the leap from "quantitative change" to "qualitative change" in China's pig farming industry, facilitating the implementation of the national seed industry revitalization strategy.