National People's Congress Deputy Qin Yinglin: Building a Large-Scale Pig Farming Model and Industry Sharing Platform

To promote high-quality development of the pork industry, this year, National People’s Congress representative and Muyuan Foods Chairman Qin Yinglin mainly focuses on five areas: advancing smart pig farming, building industry-sharing platforms, improving autonomous breeding, promoting disease eradication, and green low-carbon initiatives.

Qin Yinglin pointed out that pig farming is a traditional industry. Despite its high dependence on people, high technical requirements, numerous challenges, and uncertainties, there is still a clear demand for technology and management. By developing a large pig farming model, the industry can operate in an orderly manner, follow standardized procedures, and be supported by unified norms and standards, providing a more realistic and usable technological pathway to guide industry development.

“The market will tell us whose model is the most useful and whose contribution is the greatest,” Qin Yinglin said. He emphasized the need to unwaveringly promote the intelligent upgrade of pig farming, transforming it into a modern large-scale industry, making pig farmers’ work easier and more respectable.

AI intelligent applications are also expanding the space for broader innovation implementation.

“In the AI era, we feel like we are learning every day and constantly surprised. It is an era of reshaping various industries. This reshaping permeates all aspects; it’s not just a single point. In the pig industry, AI is also penetrating comprehensively,” Qin Yinglin stated.

He pointed out that upgrading AI applications in pig farming can empower multiple development directions. In breeding, using better and more equipment to assess breeding pigs can elevate the evaluation process to a higher level, providing strong support for breeding. In intelligent farming, smart equipment can replace manual judgment of diseases, such as sound-based diagnosis and image recognition, ensuring herd health. Additionally, relying more on devices and intelligent equipment to complete daily tasks marks an important shift for pig technicians toward becoming engineers.

In Qin Yinglin’s view, the era of intelligence is also an era of sharing. Developing pig farming through intelligent means can generate greater value through sharing, providing better production support. Enterprises can share advanced equipment, technology, talent, and management resources through industry connectivity, fostering joint development and improving industry productivity.

Furthermore, regarding pig health, Qin Yinglin also pointed out that there is still significant room for improvement in production efficiency and disease prevention. Leading and excellent companies taking the lead in disease eradication can gradually elevate the industry to a healthier development stage, saving social resources and enhancing food safety.

Beyond food safety, Qin Yinglin also noted that consumer demands are continuously evolving. Consumers’ preferences for pork products are becoming more segmented and personalized. Companies need to continue improving quality and upgrading pork quality. “In the past, people just wanted meat, whether it was available or sufficient. Now, as living standards improve, people prefer leaner meat. Lean meat is now available, and in the future, people will not only want lean meat but also want it to taste good.”

Editor: Wang Can, Lin Chen

(Editors: Wang Can, Lin Chen)

Keywords: Food Muyuan Foods