Zibo adds provincial modern agricultural industrial park

Yiyuan county – administered by Zibo city in East China's Shandong province – has added a new provincial modern agriculture industrial park.

That's according to a document issued on Feb 16 by Shandong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Shandong Provincial Department of Finance.

The park is situated in the middle of Shandong province, at an average elevation of 401 meters, in the highest region of Shandong.

Thanks to its convenient transportation, it lies within a "two-hour living circle" comprising Jinan, Qingdao and other major cities.

It sits in a globally recognized industrial belt for growing fruit. The park has a developing apple industry, loads of sunlight, clean water and its soil is rich in trace elements.

The park  has set up a working center for academicians and a technical engineering center for apples – independently breeding a new variety of Shandong's short-branch red Fuji apples.