People’s Governments of All Counties and Districts, Relevant Municipal Departments:

To implement the strategic directives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, the Provincial Party Committee, and the Provincial Government regarding the active development of the beef and dairy cattle industry, fully leverage our city’s advantages in crop straw resources, and vigorously promote the high-quality development of the beef and dairy cattle industry, these Implementation Guidelines are hereby issued.

I. Development Goals

By 2025, the city’s beef cattle herd is expected to reach over 300,000 head, and support will be provided for the construction of 1–2 beef cattle slaughter and processing plants. By 2030, the level of large-scale, standardized, and industrialized development in beef and dairy cattle farming will be significantly enhanced; a modern industrial system, production system, and management system will be fully established; and high-quality development of the industry will be essentially achieved.

II. Key Tasks

(1) Accelerate the conservation, breeding, and utilization of Xinyang water buffalo. Strengthen the protection, development, and utilization of Xinyang water buffalo genetic resources; conduct research and promote the industrialization of the Xinyang water buffalo meat industry; support the development of Xinyang water buffalo conservation farms; enhance seed production and supply capabilities; and carry out performance testing.Strictly implement relevant provincial-level and higher support policies regarding the cattle breeding industry. Strive to significantly strengthen the conservation of Xinyang water buffalo genetic resources by 2025 and establish a certain capacity for seed production. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Bureau of Science and Technology, Bureau of Finance; relevant county and district governments)

(2) Develop the breeding of foundation cows. Encourage farmers to introduce high-quality breeding cows, vigorously promote advanced breeding technologies such as sex-sorted frozen semen and embryo transfer, and continuously expand the breeding cow population.Encourage large-scale fattening farms to establish stable cattle supply channels with breeding cow farms (households, cooperatives) through contract farming and other methods, thereby promoting the integrated development of breeding and fattening. By 2025, strive to cultivate more than 1,000 business entities with a breeding cow inventory of 10 or more head.Effectively implement provincial fiscal support policies. In major cattle-raising counties, implement policy-based insurance for beef cattle breeding cows, providing subsidies to eligible beef cattle breeding cow operators at a rate of no more than 1,000 yuan per head per year. Non-major cattle-raising counties may provide subsidies from county-level fiscal funds in reference to the above standards. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Municipal Finance Bureau, relevant county and district governments)

(3) Promote standardized and large-scale farming. Guide the allocation of new production capacity around leading processing enterprises, improve benefit-sharing mechanisms, and promote local and nearby processing for value-added activities. Prioritize support for the construction of beef cattle farms with 200 or more livestock units and advance farming standardization. Strive to achieve a proportion of 35% for large-scale beef cattle farming by 2025.Effectively implement provincial subsidy policies: for newly constructed standardized beef cattle farms with 500 or more livestock units and dairy cattle farms with 300 or more livestock units, provide subsidies at rates not exceeding 1,000 yuan per livestock unit for beef cattle and 2,000 yuan per livestock unit for dairy cattle, respectively, with a maximum subsidy of 20 million yuan per farm.Implement the upgrading and renovation project for small and medium-sized dairy and beef cattle farms to advance standardization in livestock farming. Counties and districts may formulate their own incentive and subsidy policies in reference to provincial standards, providing incentives and subsidies to newly established farms with 200–499 standardized beef cattle stalls to enhance the level of large-scale beef cattle farming. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Finance Bureau, Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Bureau of Ecology and Environment, and relevant county and district governments)

(IV) Cultivate and Strengthen Leading Enterprises. Actively guide the establishment of modern agricultural industrial parks, competitive and distinctive industrial clusters, and strong agricultural industrial towns centered on the beef and dairy cattle industry to promote integrated development. Encourage large-scale farms to adopt integrated operations encompassing breeding, processing, and sales. Tap into the potential of local leading enterprises, cultivate brands for beef and dairy enterprises and their products, and enhance market competitiveness. Strive to have at least two provincial-level or higher leading enterprises in the beef and dairy cattle industry by 2025.(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Market Regulation Bureau, Financial Work Bureau, and relevant county and district governments)

(5) Actively Cultivate Major Cattle-Raising Counties. Following the development path of “small groups, large-scale operations,” vigorously promote development models such as “village collectives establishing farms and leasing them to business entities,” and guide the relocation of cattle farming “from villages to farms.” Xi County and Huibin County shall coordinate policies such as loan interest subsidies, risk compensation, and insurance premium subsidies to establish model towns (townships), villages, and households for cattle farming, thereby accelerating the expansion of breeding scale.Counties and districts with a certain industrial foundation and development potential are encouraged to actively strive to become major cattle-raising counties. The goal is to cultivate at least two major cattle-raising counties with a livestock population of over 100,000 head by 2025. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Finance Bureau, Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Bureau of Rural Revitalization, and relevant county and district governments)

(6) Adhere to ecological and green development. Promote the integration of crop cultivation and livestock farming, and encourage livestock farms to utilize manure and wastewater locally through land transfers and contractual agreements.Guide livestock farms to construct supporting facilities for manure treatment and utilization; promote the renovation and upgrading of manure treatment facilities at existing large-scale farms; strengthen post-construction operation and maintenance management; and promote technical models such as full-volume collection and return of manure to fields and water-fertilizer integration. Include the treatment and utilization of manure from eligible beef and dairy cattle farms within the scope of support for projects such as the Green Crop-Livestock Circular Agriculture Pilot Program. Give priority support to beef and dairy cattle farms in establishing “Beautiful Pastures” and “National Standardized Demonstration Farms for Livestock and Poultry Breeding.”(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, and relevant county and district governments)

III. Support Measures

(1) Strengthen Organizational Leadership. Establish a municipal-level task force for the development of the beef and dairy cattle industry, responsible for researching and refining relevant policies, and coordinating departments including Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Development and Reform, Science and Technology, Industry and Information Technology, Finance, Natural Resources, Ecology and Environment, Market Regulation, Finance, and Rural Revitalization to form a synergistic effort.Governments at all levels shall prioritize the beef and dairy cattle industry, incorporate it into the rural revitalization assessment framework, and implement project-based management to ensure the high-quality completion of development tasks. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Development and Reform Commission, Science and Technology Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Finance Bureau, Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Market Regulation Bureau, Financial Work Bureau, Rural Revitalization Bureau, Xinyang Branch of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, and relevant county and district governments)

(2) Strengthen Fiscal Support. Relevant county and district governments shall coordinate agricultural funds—including those for agricultural production development and animal disease prevention subsidies—optimize expenditure structures, and comprehensively utilize subsidies, guarantees, and interest subsidies to increase support for the beef and dairy cattle industry. Support policies shall be adjusted in a timely manner based on the implementation of national, provincial, and municipal decisions and policies. Counties and districts are encouraged to use special-purpose bonds to support eligible beef and dairy cattle-related projects.Make full use of fiscal funds for promoting rural revitalization. Encourage poverty-stricken areas to prioritize the beef and dairy cattle industry as a key supported specialty sector. Focus on strengthening village-level collective economies in formerly impoverished villages and ensuring stable income growth for the population that has escaped poverty (including those under monitoring and assistance), improve mechanisms for linking and benefiting farmers, and accelerate the development of the industry.Support major cattle-raising counties in establishing an annual beef and dairy cattle industry risk compensation fund and emergency loan renewal revolving fund of no less than 10 million yuan, and non-major cattle-raising counties in establishing such funds of no less than 5 million yuan. Promote a new “government-bank-guarantee-investment” collaborative mechanism for agricultural support to leverage financial and social capital in supporting the development of the beef and dairy cattle industry. (Responsible Units: Municipal Finance Bureau, Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Rural Revitalization Bureau, relevant county and district governments)

(3) Strengthen Financial Support. Encourage banking institutions to offer credit services such as collateralized loans against livestock pens and live animals, accounts receivable pledges, and insurance policy loans; reasonably determine loan terms and interest rates to effectively reduce financing costs for beef and dairy cattle industry operators. Support households that have escaped poverty and those under monitoring in developing beef cattle farming through microcredit, and guide banking institutions to issue targeted poverty alleviation enterprise loans to enterprises that assist beef and dairy cattle farmers.Accelerate the improvement of insurance policies and expand basic breeding cow insurance to counties that are not major cattle-raising counties. Encourage counties and districts to include fattening cattle and calves in the scope of local specialty agricultural product insurance, and provide support through incentive-based subsidies for those that meet the criteria.Actively coordinate with agricultural guidance funds such as the Modern Agriculture Fund and the Agricultural Comprehensive Development Equity Investment Fund to seek cooperation in equity investments and industrial mergers and acquisitions aimed at upstream and downstream industrial layout, as well as extending and strengthening the cattle industry chain, thereby fostering leading enterprises and driving the development of the cattle industry. (Responsible Units: Municipal Financial Work Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Finance Bureau, Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, Rural Revitalization Bureau, Xinyang Banking and Insurance Regulatory Sub-bureau, and relevant county and district governments)

(IV) Strengthen Land Use Support. When formulating territorial spatial plans and detailed plans, all counties and districts shall clearly define the spatial layout, land use scale, and land use structure for the beef and dairy cattle industry. They shall guide the coordinated placement of beef cattle slaughter and processing projects within county boundaries and promote their concentration in industrial parks. With approval, general farmland, unused land, and low-efficiency or idle collective construction land may be utilized for the construction of beef and dairy cattle breeding facilities.(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Development and Reform Commission, Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and relevant county and district governments)

(5) Strengthen Supervision and Management. Municipal and county departments responsible for agriculture and rural affairs, finance, and rural revitalization shall strengthen supervision and inspection of beef cattle industry projects. After project implementation, annual project acceptance inspections and performance self-evaluations shall be organized in a timely manner, and the results of such inspections and evaluations shall be reported to municipal-level departments. The Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Municipal Bureau of Rural Revitalization, and other relevant departments shall conduct on-site verification either through their own efforts or by commissioning third-party institutions. Any identified issues must be rectified within a specified timeframe to ensure that fiscal funds are directed accurately and effectively.(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Rural Revitalization Bureau, and relevant county and district governments)