Recently, Yuanxing Feed, a subsidiary of Youran Animal Husbandry (09858), obtained a carbon neutrality certificate issued by the CTC National Inspection Group, and the first zero-carbon factory in the Chinese feed industry was born!

Youran Animal Husbandry Yuanxing Feed has nearly 40 years of ruminant feed R&D and production experience. It is committed to providing customers with systematic ruminant breeding solutions. The industrial layout covers 25 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in China, serves more than 2 million domestic cows, and is the largest supplier of ruminant feed in China. Youran Animal Husbandry Yuanxing Feed successfully explored the “product+service” business model, built a near-infrared nutrition database for the main raw materials of dairy farming in China, built a leading domestic dairy nutrition system, strategic cooperation with famous American dairy expert Hudgens, promoted the Chinese version of NASEM's “Nutritional Needs for Dairy Cows” domestically to achieve international integration, develop “low carbon, high yield, and longevity” feed, and promote the continuous implementation of a sustainable development strategy. Through high-level talent training, new product development, and new technology research, the industry is leading the high-quality development path of green technology.

Youran Animal Husbandry Yuanxing Feed's “Zero Carbon Factory” focuses on the development and application of clean energy technology, making full use of the factory space structure to lay out photovoltaic power generation components to achieve self-use of green electricity and effectively reduce carbon emissions; promote the use of high-efficiency motors, electric vehicles and other new energy equipment to reduce carbon emissions by 15% and improve energy utilization; innovate process technology to reduce woven bag packaging, promote the use of green and environmentally friendly canned and tonnage products, and reduce packaging material usage by 22%; Research low-carbon feed, enzyme preparations, and low-protein diets, using energy and nitrogen balance technology, enzymatic nutrition control technology, amino acid engineering Balancing technology and other key nutrients Technology ensures the health of dairy cows, improves feed digestibility, reduces carbon emissions during rumen fermentation, and helps customer farms achieve carbon reduction at the source.

In 2022, Youran Animal Husbandry officially joined the United Nations Global Compact, and its carbon emission reduction strategies and practices were recognized by many international agencies. The first time it was included in the MSCI ESG rating, it obtained BB rating, making it the first Chinese dairy cattle breeding enterprise to receive this rating. Over the years, Youran Animal Husbandry has built and formulated carbon accounting models and core carbon emission reduction measures covering the entire breeding, grassland, feed and animal husbandry business industry chain around green and sustainable development.

The first zero-carbon factory in China's feed industry was established, demonstrating the remarkable results of Youran Animal Husbandry's strategic model of driving green and low-carbon animal husbandry development through technology. In the future, Youran Animal Husbandry will continue to seek a “carbon” future, lead the industry to promote technology and process innovation in energy saving and emission reduction, low carbon and environmental protection, and set a new benchmark for the industry's green development.