Cloned cattle become image ambassador of Cao County in Shandong Province

Introduction: while "cloning cattle" has become the focus of people's attention, the popularity of "Cao county" has also increased rapidly Many readers want to know where Cao county is and why the Chinese Academy of Sciences will choose this unknown Shandong county to cultivate cloned cattle? Caoxian is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, where the Luxi cattle are called Shandong fat cattle In ancient times, the Caoxian roast beef made from it was used as tribute to the palace for many times However, compared with foreign cattle, the growth speed of Caoxian cattle is slow, and there is a big gap in meat quality and slaughter rate A Luxi Yellow Cattle weighs about 6700 Jin, and the cloned Canadian gepwei beef cattle can grow to more than 2500 Jin "Imported beef can be sold for more than 100 yuan per kilogram, and our beef is only ten yuan." Cao County cattle business group general manager Yu Zhongbo said In order to improve the quality of local cattle, the cattle raising enterprises in Caoxian have tried to introduce foreign good cattle breeds, and directly import good cattle embryos from abroad, but they are not ideal Finally, the most advanced biotechnology in the world - cloning was chosen When Chen Dayuan, a cloning expert with NSFC's key support project "asexual reproduction of livestock (i.e cloning)", learned that Caoxian cattle raising enterprises were willing to cooperate with scientific research institutions, the two sides immediately agreed to start the mass cattle cloning project "Actually, there are many treasures in our county For example, the largest asparagus base and Tongmu processing base in China Li Anxin, deputy secretary of Caoxian county Party committee, told reporters that domestic cloned cattle have become a brand in Caoxian county They hope to attract "eyeballs" by cloning cattle and find more ways for the economic development of the whole county (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: