So to say, before the vigorous development of Agricultural Mechanization in China, cattle are the main service livestock, especially in the ancient status of cultivating cattle that is very high, ordinary people are not allowed to eat beef, so for a long time China's cattle breeding direction is mainly for service, such as Luxi cattle, Nanyang cattle, Qinchuan cattle, Jinnan cattle and Yanbian cattle and a series of famous cattle breeds of service performance are very good, their size is not too large, most of the cattle weight are concentrated in 600 ~ 1000 pounds, the maximum weight is only 1,300 pounds , lean and strong, there is not much fat on the body, such cattle work is definitely a good hand. However, if it is selected and bred into more than a thousand pounds or even more than two thousand pounds of large beef cattle, then it must not be used for military use, first, the demand for hay is more, the ancient hay is so rare to harvest some grain is not enough for cattle to eat, and the second comes from the delay in major actions, how to work when a movement is breathless.
Some animal husbandry powers in Europe and the United States, the 18th century to enter the steam age, then the lower efficiency of cattle is gradually withdrawn from the service, coupled with the European and American love for beef, their breeding of cattle will certainly develop in the direction of meat and milk, it can be said that the vast majority of the world's excellent beef cattle breeds and dairy cattle breeds are produced in Europe and the United States.
For example, Simmental cattle are native to the Swiss Alps; Charolet cattle are native to the charolais and Nevre regions of south-central France; Limousan cattle are native to the Limousan Plateau in central France; Hyfort cattle are native to Herefordshire in southern England; Angus cattle are native to northeast Scotland; Piedmont cattle are native to Italy; Belgian blue cattle are native to Belgium; and shorthorn cattle are native to the counties of North-Bolsamber, Dram, York and Lincoln in England St. Grudy cattle are native to Texas, USA; Holstein cows are native to the Netherlands...
Through the breeding process of various beef cattle breeds, it can be found that most of these beef cattle originated in the 18th and 19th centuries, and then after hundreds of years of continuous breeding, the production performance was fixed in the 20th century. China's beef cattle breeding work started relatively late, only the 1980s and 1990s were officially started, and it was difficult to cultivate new beef cattle breeds in just a few decades, let alone the selection and breeding of new varieties.
Therefore, at present, China's cattle industry is still based on the introduction of beef cattle breeds and their hybrid cattle, and there is still a long way to go to breed new beef cattle breeds, but I believe that China's animal husbandry industry will continue to become stronger in the future!