| Promoting agricultural industrialization is a long-term strategy in developing rural and pastoral economy in the foreseeable future in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is also the only way for farmers and herdsmen to stride into a well-off society. Hulunbeier City, in its efforts to develop agricultural industrialization, tightly masters the opportunities of entering into the WTO and conducting the West Development Strategy, and seriously implements the philosophy of "Supporting Industrialization is Supporting Agriculture, and Supporting the Dragon Head Enterprises is Supporting Farmers". Based on the local endowment of various resources, the city actively fosters market-oriented and efficiency-centered industries (e.g. milk, meats and forages) that have development potentials and competitiveness in markets. At the same time, it also facilitates the development of such local special industries as potatoes, soybeans, sugar beets, wheat, reeds and so on, and promotes the establishment of an integrated operational model including production, processing and marketing and the fast growing of the Dragon Head Enterprises and high-quality, high-yield, high-profit and secure production bases. All these efforts have greatly stimulates the sustainable development of local agricultural industrialization, the restructuring of agriculture, the increase of local farmers and the development of rural and pastoral economy. |