Qingdao has a developed agricultural industry. The city boasts abundant grain, peanuts, fruit, animal products and seafood products.

Qingdao is also a major tea-producing base in northern China.

Four “one million mu pilot bases” producing high-quality grain, fruit, tea, vegetables and peanuts were built in 2004.

The total grain output of Qingdao hit a record 3.54 million tons last year, including 470,000 tons of peanuts, 820,000 tons of fruit, and 5.68 million tons of vegetables.

For several years, Qingdao’s export volume of vegetables, poultry meat and seafood products has topped China’s mainland.

Qingdao also boasts an agricultural mechanization rate of 79 percent. Over 2,500 enterprises in the city process agricultural products, yielding 9 million tons of agricultural products every year.