Since 2000, Qianjiang City has successfully explored and invented the "shrimp-rice continuous cropping" mode to develop shrimp farming in rice fields, and later developed into the "shrimp-rice continuous cropping" mode. Crayfish have been artificially propagated in Qianjiang, and the breeding area and output have increased rapidly, which has promoted the great development of lobster catering processing industry in Qianjiang. There are more than 2,500 Qianjiang lobster restaurants in Qianjiang City, featuring "Qianjiang braised prawns" and "Qianjiang garlic prawns", and three intensive aquatic product processing enterprise groups have been established, namely, Xiongkou Huashan Garden, Haokou Lake Garden and Houhu Baolong Garden (moved from Jiangsu).
Qianjiang lobster industry has formed a new pattern of industrialization integrating scientific research and demonstration, improved seed breeding, fry breeding, healthy breeding, processing and export, catering service, cold chain logistics and deep processing.
201June18th, at the press conference of the 2nd China Hubei (Qianjiang) Lobster Festival hosted by Hubei Provincial Department of Agriculture and Qianjiang Municipal People's Government, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference's Vice Chairman Abulati Abdurexiti presented Qianjiang City with a plaque of "China Crayfish Town". Chen Xiaohua, Vice Minister of Agriculture, Chen Baihuai, Vice Chairman of Hubei Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and more than 30 media outlets from central, provincial and municipal governments attended the press conference.
20 1 1 In August, 2008, China Cuisine Association, the most authoritative certification body in China's catering industry, issued an announcement (No.1 1), awarding Qianjiang braised prawns the title of "China famous dish".
On April 5, 20 13, the former People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Agriculture officially approved the registration and protection of geographical indications of agricultural products for "Qianjiang lobster".
On June 13, at the opening ceremony of the 5th China Qianjiang Lobster Festival, Lu Yongliang, Vice President of China Cuisine Association, read out the notice of China Cuisine Association on awarding Qianjiang City, Hubei Province the honorary title of "China Crayfish Food Town" and presented Qianjiang City with the plaque of "China Crayfish Food Town".
The Report on the Development of Crayfish Industry in China (20 18) shows that in 20 17, the national crayfish culture output reached1129,700 tons, making it the largest producer in the world. Among them, the annual output of crayfish in Hubei is 630,000 tons, accounting for 55% of the national total output.
In 20 18, the comprehensive output value of Qianjiang shrimp and rice industry reached 32 billion yuan, and the public brand value of Qianjiang lobster was 20.37 billion yuan. Qianjiang City created its own "shrimp-rice * * * culture" culture mode, which promoted the shrimp-rice * * culture area in the whole province to 7 million mu, with a national area of 6.5438+0.5 million mu.