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Qingdao Kangda Domestic Rabbit Project
The Qingdao Kangda Domestic Rabbit Project is a benchmark project for the world’s leading and China’s largest full-industry chain of meat rabbits. Developed by Qingdao Kangda Holding Group, a key national agricultural industrialization leading enterprise, it covers five core sectors: improved variety breeding, intelligent breeding, slaughtering and processing, export trade, and scientific research and innovation. Its core base is located in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao (formerly Jiaonan).
1. Project Operator & Core Positioning
Implementing Entity: Qingdao Kangda Rabbit Industry Development Co., Ltd. (founded in 1996, a core subsidiary of Kangda Group)
Core Positioning: The world’s largest domestic rabbit breeding center, Asia’s leading meat rabbit breeding base, and China’s top standardized meat rabbit breeding, processing and export base.
Core Value: It fills the gap in independent intellectual property rights of domestic meat rabbit specialized lines in China, leads the national meat rabbit breeding standards, and accounts for approximately 70% of China’s rabbit meat export volume, serving as a core brand for China’s rabbit industry global expansion.
2. Core Base Layout (Three Major Sectors)
2.1 Kangda Domestic Rabbit Breeding & Research Base (Linjia Town)
Scale: Covers over 1,000 mu with a forest coverage rate of more than 60%, featuring superior epidemic prevention conditions.

Core Composition:
Qingdao Kangda European Rabbit Breeding Co., Ltd.: The world’s only great-grandparent core group of French Hyplus specialized lines outside French headquarters.
Kangda Special Line Breeding Project: Independently developed national approved meat rabbit specialized lines including Kangda No.1, No.2, No.3 and Kangda Marbled Meat Rabbit, the first self-developed proprietary meat rabbit lines in China.
Rabbit Artificial Insemination Technology Center: The only specialized research institute focusing on rabbit artificial insemination in China with world-leading technologies.

Research Team: Composed of more than 20 Chinese and foreign experts and 50 professional technicians, with long-term strategic cooperation with China Agricultural University, Shandong Agricultural University and other prestigious universities.

2.2 Intelligent Breeding Base (Linjia Town, World’s Largest Single-site Base)
Scale: Equipped with 58 intelligent rabbit houses. Each house measures 70m × 17m with a stock capacity of 20,000 rabbits. The core breeding rabbit inventory reaches 56,000, with an annual commercial rabbit output of over 3.3 million.
Intelligent System: Fully automatic integrated control of environmental regulation, manure cleaning, feeding, drinking water and lighting systems. One operator can manage an entire rabbit house, realizing odor-free, low-carbon and low-consumption breeding.
Breeding Mode: Adopts factory-style cyclic breeding and full-in full-out biosecurity management, setting a national benchmark for biosafety control in the breeding industry.

2.3 Slaughtering, Processing & Export Base (Qingdao West Coast New Area)
Production Capacity: Annual slaughtering and processing capacity of 5 million rabbits. It has obtained EU registration qualification since 1998, as well as HACCP, IFS and ISO9001 certifications.
Market Coverage: Products are exported to the EU, Russia, Japan, the Middle East and other regions, occupying over 70% of China’s rabbit meat export market. Domestic sales cover high-end supermarkets and catering chains nationwide.

3. Core Varieties & Technological Breakthroughs
3.1 Kangda Self-developed Meat Rabbit Specialized Lines
Approved by the national authority in 2011, these are the first domestically developed meat rabbit specialized lines in China. Cross-bred with French Hyplus grandparent rabbits, Tai’an white rabbits and champagne rabbits, they contain 9 specialized strains.
Production Performance: Each doe produces more than 50 kits annually; the market weight reaches 2.5kg at 70 days of age with a survival rate above 95%. With comparable production performance to imported French breeds, it has obvious cost advantages.

3.2 Kangda Marbled Meat Rabbit Specialized Line
Nationally approved in 2024, filling the global market gap of high-quality marbled meat rabbit varieties.
Core Advantages: The average litter size reaches 10.6 kits, 70-day-old live weight up to 2,550g. The meat features high protein, rich amino acids and low cholesterol, meeting the demands of high-end export and domestic healthy consumption markets.

3.3 Introduced High-quality Varieties
French Hyplus Specialized Line: Top-tier global meat rabbit breed with rapid growth and high-quality meat. Kangda owns the exclusive great-grandparent breeding population outside France.
New Zealand White Rabbit & California Rabbit: Introduced for hybrid improvement and specialized line cultivation.

4. Full-industry Chain Operation (Kangda Business Model)
4.1 Closed-loop Industrial Chain
Fine breed breeding → Feed production → Intelligent standardized breeding → Slaughtering & deep processing → Cold chain logistics → Domestic sales & foreign export → High-value utilization of by-products (rabbit blood, rabbit bone, rabbit fur intensive processing)
4.2 Cooperation Mechanism
Adopts the model of Enterprise + Cooperatives + Standardized Breeding Zones + Farmers. It provides unified breeding stock, formula feed, technical guidance and unified product recycling, driving income growth for tens of thousands of farmers in Shandong, Gansu, Yunnan and other provinces, with an average annual household income increase of RMB 10,000–20,000.

5. Core Honors & Industry Status
National Key Leading Enterprise in Agricultural Industrialization
National-level Enterprise Technology Center, Key Laboratory of Rabbit Improved Breeding under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Postdoctoral Research Station
Three national firsts in China’s rabbit industry: the largest breeding base, the largest standardized breeding base, and the top processing and export base
Leading drafter of national rabbit industry standards and officially registered EU export supplier

6. Project Significance
Seed Industry Independence: Break the monopoly of foreign meat rabbit breeds, realize independent research and development of domestic breeding stock, and guarantee national agricultural seed security.
Rural Vitalization: Drive employment and development across breeding, processing and logistics industries, boosting local economic development and rural revitalization.
International Competitiveness: Lead the high-quality and standardized development of China’s rabbit industry, enhance the global market share and international discourse power of Chinese rabbit meat products.
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