Source: Shantou Olive Terrace The picture was published with the permission of photographer Gong Zhibing
"No goose meat, no sloppy pie". In the Chaoshan region, there is a saying that "no goose is no banquet", and "Chaoshan brine goose" is even more famous at home and abroad. The attention of Shantou lion-headed goose has risen sharply, becoming a veritable "net red goose". Do you know? Shantou lion-headed goose has also won a "State Council Award"!
In the office of the Party Committee of Yuepu Community in Yuepu Street, Jinping District, a yellow-faded award certificate hangs in a prominent position and is carefully kept. This award was awarded by the State Council as "Premier" and handwritten "Zhou Enlai", which carries a glorious history.
She Guifeng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Yuepu Community, told reporters that in 1958, the lion-headed goose went to Beijing as a representative of the Shantou goose species to attend the National Congress of Advanced Units for Agricultural Socialist Construction. According to the old comrades who went to Beijing to attend the meeting at that time, the lion-headed goose that was brought to Beijing was more than twenty kilograms! It is precisely because of the excellent breed of the lion's head goose that it became famous in one fell swoop and won the award. She Guifeng said.
The reporter learned that the lion's head goose weighs 2-3 times that of ordinary geese and is one of the largest geese in the world. Lion-headed geese are large and famous, but they are a niche breed and have not been promoted throughout the country, mainly concentrated in the Chaoshan region. Nowadays, the "old trade" of lionhead geese with a breeding history of more than 300 years in Chenghai area has taken a new path of modernization and development, forming a complete and fine industrial chain of "lionhead goose industry kingdom".
At present, the city is vigorously promoting the industrialization of deep processing of lion's head goose, and automating, standardizing and scaling the halogenation process. In the future, the lion's head goose will form a complete industrial chain from breeding to deep processing to sales, supporting a large market of tens of billions of yuan, this domineering goose king can not only expedition to the world, conquer everyone's taste buds, but also add a powerful stroke to the strong industrial market of Shantou.