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How did these top foreign ingredients get domestically dried to the price of cabbage?

author:Dalang Finance

Family, China is too "hated"! Anything that reaches the land of Shenzhou can be manufactured in large quantities, and it is inexpensive. It will not only end the profiteering of the West, but also reverse the export for the benefit of all parts of the world.

Hello everyone, this issue is co-produced by the old baby who is interesting and knowledgeable, dares to use dare to fight monsters- the little mantis and a financial poet who looks slightly higher than the talent.

Chinese did not have the tradition of eating caviar, but ate sturgeon meat. In the 1990s, in line with the starting point of protecting sturgeon, which is mainly Chinese sturgeon, the Chinese people began to explore artificial sturgeon farming in Hubei. It didn't matter, I didn't expect to pull down the altar of caviar, which only nobles and rich people could enjoy in the past.

Caspian caviar is 1.9 million ($300,000) a kilogram, and domestic caviar is 100,000 ($16,000) a kilogram, a full 19 times, which is not a huge deal, but a bargain to open the door to the bargain, and the deal is home.

Today, China, a country without a tradition of eating caviar, has replaced Russia as the largest exporter of caviar in just over a decade.

In the gourmet jianghu, caviar has always had an irreplaceable status and legend, nickname: black diamonds, when eating, to put on the tiger's mouth, let it stain the residual temperature of the skin, and then put into the mouth, crushed with the tip of the tongue and palate, the taste is the best.

Is it really so magical?

I used to eat this thing in The Barberry's coffee shop, just like Mandellin, and the whole taste was only the moment of paying the bill, which touched my heart.

But the rarity of caviar is true. The raw material for caviar is mainly sturgeon roe, and in any country, there must be a license to catch sturgeon, and there are strict regulations on the amount caught each year. Because sturgeon is quite endangered, it is a protected animal on earth and is difficult to cultivate artificially. This gives merchants more room for speculation and price increases, in addition to delicious, it can also highlight a person's identity and status, because only the nobles and rich can afford to eat. Some noblewomen use caviar to maintain their skin, which is said to be "rejuvenating".

A small fish egg, how can it have such a great effect? I don't understand.

But in the eyes of businessmen, as long as it is sold at a starting price and does not break the law, it is not hesitant to say that caviar can cure the new crown. In order to make money, merchants have also thought about artificial breeding, but the sturgeon is too picky of the environment, and it will die to show you at any moment. The water quality is not good, and the caviar will have an earthy and fishy taste. When the water temperature exceeds 28 degrees, the sturgeon will lose their lives due to the decline in immunity.

This is not to mention, sturgeon to 3 years to identify male and female, to raise 8-12 years, in order to spawn, the whole process of breeding a lot of money, a flash is nothing.

In 2003, Qiandao Lake suffered the hottest summer of 60 years, and the more than 50,000 sturgeon raised by this man named Wang Bin were almost half dead, and the work of catching dead fish and burying fish was done for three months. In order to cool down, directly into the water into the low-temperature liquid ammonia, many of the technical backbone of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences can not withstand the pressure to resign, the most lonely time, the entire farm only seven or eight employees.

But Wang Bin has been trying to find a way to change his mind. For example, as mentioned earlier, male sturgeon kills and eats fish meat, and the female fish can produce precious caviar. But sturgeon must be kept for at least three or four years before the male and female can be distinguished with the naked eye. Domestic farmers have directly introduced gene molecular technology to identify the sex of sturgeon as soon as six months. The female stays and the male takes away, which greatly reduces the cost of breeding.

With a product, you have to find a way to sell. At that time, the export price of domestic caviar sold for 50,000 pieces per kilogram. Farmers all feel that such a conscientious price, domestic sauce should not worry about sales. But what I never expected was that it was more difficult for foreigners to accept domestic caviar than to cultivate the sturgeon itself.

A Washington Post article accused cheap domestic caviar of guilt because it ruined caviar's luxury status. It destroyed the local industrial structure in Europe and Iran.

Even if the media has a rhythm, it is as if it is not seen. But in the promotion to foreign businesses, their reaction, but also the family to the whole collapse, according to the domestic entrustment of the experience of the routine, in 2006, the domestic caviar manufacturers found the French caviar association president at the time, it is said that the president of this association three generations of grandchildren are doing caviar business, is the industry's authoritative figures, as a result, the chairman of this association after tasting, not only 1 gram did not buy, but also full of disgust.

Then the domestic manufacturers found Lufthansa, they will be in the first class specially supply caviar but was directly rejected, because of the fear of Chinese food insecurity.

This is not an accidental case, this kind of product discrimination in the field of international trade, also known as "green barriers". From the "chloramphenicol" incident in 2002, the "Enrofloxacin" incident in 2003, to the "malachite green" incident in 2005, the "affirmative list" system in 2006, and the 2007 aquatic product trade dispute to the United States, this series of events have become a roadblock for agricultural export enterprises.

However, in 2010, the aforementioned airline suffered a supply crisis, the original caviar supplier suddenly ran out of stock, they purchased 25 kinds of caviar on the market, put together for sample blind testing, domestic caviar 2 blind test votes, the score is the first. Lufthansa, which was punched in the face, reluctantly accepted domestic caviar.

Later, the story is that Zhenxiang warned that Chinese caviar is not only of high quality, but also cheaper.

In 2017, Bloomberg published an article: The world's best caviar is no longer Russian, as an American wholesaler said: he spent 8 years promoting American caviar, but now he is like others, buying Chinese caviar, if nothing else, is simply cheap and big bowl.

Customs data shows that in the five years from 2013 to 2018, China's caviar exports increased fivefold, and 70% of the world's caviar was provided by China. Caviar has also changed from the unattainable aristocratic exclusive, into ordinary people also have the ability to taste the food, I went to Taobao to check it, 10 grams of as long as 100 pieces of a box, on a whim, you can also buy a box to taste the fresh.

The ingredients are still the same ingredients, but the price is a heaven, an underground, which is the magic of made in China.

Not just caviar, but also black truffles.

In France, black truffle is the top ingredient with caviar, the price is also outrageous, more than 100,000 yuan per kilogram, but the output is pitifully small, the annual output is only 30 tons, so the French black truffle has also been topped on the top of the pyramid of ingredients.

But Yunnan people do not understand, this is not the local people do not eat, specially fed pigs "pig arch fungus"? Why did it become a high-end product in France?

After discovering this business opportunity, Yunnan began to export a large number of black truffles, and even lit up the artificial cultivation skills of black truffles, which greatly increased production. It is reasonable to say that the things that the French love to eat, no longer have to worry about the production, should be happy, on the contrary, the French are not happy, why can the high-ranking officials and nobles enjoy the ingredients, after you Chinese joined, it became a popular cuisine?

France, in conjunction with European countries, has introduced policies to restrict the import of Chinese black truffles, on the grounds that French black truffles and Chinese black truffles are not one species at all.

The result is the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has proved through genetic research that Yunnan black truffles and French black truffles are "siblings", and after maturity, there is almost no difference in taste, aroma and contained substances.

If there is a difference, France is accustomed to digging out black truffles after they are ripe to eat them, while Yunnan is accustomed to harvesting them early

Like Lufthansa, some people once mixed the two together and cooked them, and the French couldn't tell the difference.

Now, the annual output of domestic black truffles has reached 300 tons, which is 10 times that of France, and more than 80% of the black truffles in the global market come from China. Even for every ten world-famous "French black truffles" sold, three were shipped from Yunnan to be branded.

There are also Japanese businessmen like this, and eel rice will only appear when it is entertained to distinguished guests. Neon people are proud of Japanese eels, always feel that foreign eels have a little taste, as long as you eat a bite can distinguish the difference, but in fact, Japanese eels and Chinese eels, is the same species, because all eels, are fishing wild eel fry, and then artificial breeding, there is no one more noble than who.

A Japanese aquatic product wholesaler, perennial import of Chinese eels, but with the Japanese eel signboard, just like this sold for more than 5 years, only to be found, ironically, not the people who bought the fish ate the difference, but the local health department in the routine inspection, found the store imported Chinese eel purchase invoice. In fact, 90% of Japan's imported eels come from our country.

"Chinese eels look at Guangdong, and Guangdong eels look at Shunde." Guangdong Shunde is a real eel exporter, and the biggest difference between Japanese eel and national eel is that there is no difference, just an excuse for merchants to sell at high prices.

In fact, many times, the high price of goods depends on the story rendering, listening to jazz wagyu beef, the best meat on the body, listening to the piano music of salmon, in order to make a superior smoked fish.

Let the perfume designer design a packaging bottle for mineral water, so that even a pocket bottle of water can sell for more than 200 (30 pounds).

The leisure class pursues rarity and uniqueness to show its identity and status, but in fact, it is hungry and does not let go of the last chicken of its fellow countrymen. In their eyes, it doesn't matter if there is nutrition or not, it doesn't matter whether it is an endangered species, what matters is whether these foods are only what they can afford.

Although those merchants who import Chinese caviar, black truffles and eels are still hidden and still dare not openly admit the origin, countless data and facts have proved that China is not only an infrastructure demon, but also a cultivation expert, and there are many agricultural products from the county.

At the end of the content, I think of the preface to the book "The Great Prosperity", the assertion of the economist Lin Yifu that innovation in developing countries can also be achieved by import and imitation, and that the cost of risk and innovation is much lower than that of developed countries. If this possibility is used well, developing countries can grow at several times faster than developed countries.

As small as a grain of caviar, a black truffle, as large as a lithography machine and the Internet, all follow this principle. Tasting this mouthful of domestic and foreign ingredients, there will still be a hint of yearning for a better life in the future.

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