Crawfish city seeks to boost production, enhance innovation

Overseas demand for Chinese crawfish and related products is huge and is on the rise, pushing the country's largest crawfish supplier Qianjiang in Hubei province to increase its production capacity and enhance innovations, said the mayor of the city.

Gong Dingrong, mayor of Qianjiang and a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress, said overseas and domestic demand for crawfish is so huge that the city can only meet around 50 percent of this so far.

"The domestic supply of crawfish is around 1.08 million metric tons. Demand from home and abroad totals around 2.6 million tons. The gap is more than 50 percent," said Gong of the supply and demand from last year.