This promotion event is jointly organized by the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Maoming City and the Sichuan Third Industry Association, and co organized by the Sichuan Third Industry Association Group Meal Committee, Sichuan Hot Pot Association, Chengdu Cold Chain Logistics Chamber of Commerce, Sichuan Guangdong Chamber of Commerce, Chengdu Maoming Chamber of Commerce, Sichuan Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Catering Association, and Maoming Tilapia Association. The event aims to enhance the brand awareness and reputation of Maoming tilapia, establish sales channels for Maoming tilapia in Chengdu, expand the market for pre made tilapia dishes, and support the high-quality development of Maoming tilapia industry.
Zhong Xiuwei, Deputy Director of the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Maoming City, introduced that Maoming is the world's largest tilapia breeding and processing base. The Maoming Municipal Party Committee and Government have made the decision to build a "five trees, one fish" full industry chain, playing the "four cards" of industry, market, technology, and culture, and are implementing the tilapia industry upgrading action. While adhering to the high-quality development path of the tilapia industry, they are striving to build an industrial pattern with reasonable layout, green safety, high quality and efficiency, production standards, production and sales coordination, and profound cultural heritage, and are building the tilapia industry into a super billion level advantageous characteristic industrial cluster.
The freshwater aquaculture area of tilapia in Maoming City reaches 260000 mu, and the seawater mixed aquaculture area is 30000 mu. There are over 15000 tilapia farmers, with an annual output of 252800 tons, accounting for about 1/9 of the national tilapia production. Maoming has become the largest tilapia aquaculture advantage area and export processing base in China, and is undoubtedly the "Capital of Chinese tilapia".
The promotion event provided a detailed introduction to the development history of Maoming tilapia, focusing on the five advantages of good breeding environment, good seedlings, good safety, good nutrition, and good taste of tilapia in Maoming City, allowing guests at the event to have a deep understanding of Maoming tilapia as a high-quality food ingredient. The representative of Maoming tilapia enterprise showcased and promoted the entire tilapia industry chain to the attendees, including tilapia seedlings, breeding technology, pre packaged vegetable operation mode, and cooperation plans.
The event also held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony for the association. The Sichuan Third Industry Association, Sichuan Hotpot Association, Chengdu Cold Chain Logistics Chamber of Commerce, and Maoming Tilapia Association signed a strategic cooperation agreement, promising to link resources, complement advantages, and achieve win-win cooperation.
In order to promote consumption and seek common development, the Sichuan Third Industry Association, Sichuan Hotpot Association, Chengdu Cold Chain Logistics Chamber of Commerce, Sichuan Guangdong Chamber of Commerce, and Maoming Tilapia Association held a forum dialogue on "How to do a good job in the development of Maoming Tilapia consumption", helping to boost consumption and promote industry development together.
It is worth mentioning that at the event, professional chefs showcased their culinary skills and cooked various dishes using Maoming tilapia as the ingredient. The meat was tender, succulent, and less prickly, giving the attending guests a deeper understanding of tilapia. Tiktok platform's online celebrity has made videos, uploaded, released, shared and interacted with Maoming tilapia dishes. Everyone tastes tilapia dishes and looks forward to the development prospects of tilapia and the catering industry.
In addition, the promotion meeting on that day also invited chambers of commerce, aquatic associations, catering associations, catering enterprises, group meal enterprises, distributors, frozen food markets, e-commerce and other parties from Sichuan and Guangdong to participate in docking and negotiation, jointly exploring and promoting the expansion channels of tilapia in the western market, opening up new supply and sales channels for tilapia, jointly building a fishery resource sharing platform, promoting in-depth cooperation in aquatic projects between Sichuan and Guangdong, and achieving mutual benefit and win-win development between Sichuan and Guangdong.