Xiaoming Shares Southern Seed Industry Center (Phase I), the large-scale modern layer hatchery project you mentioned, is a major modernized egg hatchery base constructed by Ningxia Xiaoming Agriculture & Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. (300967) in Changde City, Hunan Province. It is also the world's largest single hatchery building.

I. Basic Project Information

Location: West Dongting Management District, Changde City, Hunan Province

Land area: 69 mu

Total investment: 150 million yuan

Construction period: Construction started in December 2021 → Trial production in September 2022 → Full completion in December 2022

Project positioning: Supporting project for the Hongsibu Million Ecological Breeding Base and the core hub of the Southern Strategy

II. Core Capacity and Scale

Automated hatching lines: 2 complete production lines (egg processing → incubation → hatching → sorting)

Annual hatching capacity: 100 million commercial day-old female chicks

Annual egg processing capacity: 300 million hatching eggs

Estimated annual revenue: 600 million yuan

III. Technical & Equipment Highlights (Intelligence)

Hatching egg processing: Imported equipment with a capacity of 61,200 eggs per hour; featuring UV disinfection, crack detection, and automatic coding

Transfer stage: Robotic arms + transfer machines, handling 60,500 eggs per hour

Chick sexing: Dual production lines with automatic feather color/feather speed sexing and male-female separation

Environmental control system: Independent closed-loop zoning for precise temperature, humidity, fresh air control and epidemic prevention

IV. Features and Honors

World's largest single hatchery hall: No.1 in the world in single-hall scale

Transparent factory + industrial tourism: A glass aerial corridor built with an investment of 5 million yuan, open to the public

Provincial-level Industrial Tourism Demonstration Site (selected in 2023)

V. Strategic Significance

Improved national layout: Filling the incubation gap in Central, South and Southwest China

Upgraded biosecurity: Dual bases in north and south to diversify risks and supply chicks locally

Market expansion: Significantly improved penetration rate and distribution efficiency in the southern market