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自主育种, promoting pig disease purification, 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 path for technological and management needs. 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.

“Who has the best model, who contributes the most—market will speak,” Qin Yinglin said. He emphasized the need to unwaveringly promote the intelligent upgrade of pig farming, making pig industry a modern large-scale industry, and 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 every day is full of surprises. It’s an era of reshaping various industries. This reshaping permeates all aspects; it’s not just a single point, but fully integrated into the pig industry,” Qin Yinglin stated.

He pointed out that for the pig industry, upgrading AI intelligent applications can empower multiple development directions. In breeding, using better and more equipment to assess breeding pigs can elevate traditional evaluation methods to a higher level, providing strong support for breeding. In intelligent farming, smart equipment can replace manual judgment of diseases, such as listening to sounds to diagnose illnesses or analyzing images to identify health issues, ensuring herd health. Additionally, relying more on equipment and intelligent devices 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 support for production. 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 pig disease purification 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’ needs for pork products are becoming more segmented and personalized. Companies should continue to focus on quality and upgrade pork quality. “In the past, people just wanted meat—any meat, enough meat. Now, as living standards improve, people prefer lean meat. Lean meat is now available, and in the future, people will not only want lean meat but also want it to taste good.”