Rongchang District, located in the westernmost part of Chongqing, the center of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle, is the location of the country's first national high-tech zone with agricultural and animal husbandry characteristics, as well as the national pig big data (index) center, the location of the China Animal Husbandry Science and Technology City, the permanent host of the China Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Forum, and the origin of the "panda pig" Rongchang pig, the resource protection area, and the consumption of goose breeding in the country. There is also the country's largest online pig trading (pig spot electronic trading) market with an average daily pig trading volume of more than 220,000 heads, and the largest feed veterinary drug market in the west. There are scientific research institutions such as The Rongchang Campus of Southwest University (211) and the Chongqing Animal Science Research Institute. The China Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Forum has been held for 10 sessions; recently, the first national animal husbandry and fishery work conference was also held in Rong.
Yangling District, located between Xi'an and Baoji, located in the hinterland of Shaanxi's economic core, is a relatively special area, nominally subordinate to Xianyang City, in fact under the jurisdiction of the Yangling Demonstration Zone Management Committee, is the first national agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone, the national modern agricultural industrial park, the only free trade area with distinctive agricultural characteristics in the China Pilot Free Trade Zone, and the four major science and technology exhibitions "Agricultural High Commission" supported by the state. There are scientific research institutions such as Northwest A&F University (985) and Yangling International Research Institute of Modern Agriculture in the area. Yangling is very strong in national positioning and agricultural scientific research strength! China Yangling Agricultural High-tech Achievements Expo has been held for 28 sessions, and the latest Yangling Agricultural High-tech Expo has signed a total of 90.644 billion yuan, with a total online transaction volume of 239 million yuan.
Yangling and Rongchang have their own emphases, Yangling is characterized by planting, Rongchang is characterized by animal husbandry, Yangling is more focused on scientific research and technology promotion, and the level of its scientific research institutions is higher than that of Rongchang; Rongchang is ahead of Yangling in the modern industrialization of animal husbandry and the leading role of the industry, of course, Rongchang is also very strong in animal husbandry and scientific research strength.
In 2020, the GDP of Yangling District was 15.171 billion yuan, with a per capita population of 59,500 yuan and a permanent population of about 250,000 yuan; the GDP of Rongchang District was 70.9 billion yuan, with a per capita gdp of 105,800 yuan and a permanent population of about 670,000. In terms of economic development, Rongchang's GDP is far ahead in terms of both total and per capita, several times that of Yangling!