If The Netherlands is the Horti-Centre of the world, then ShanDong Province would be the Agri-Garden of China. In 2021, the total production of vegetables in Shandong province reached 88 million tons, the first in the country. The annual production of vegetables has exceeded 80 million tons for 7 years.
Thanks to the natural gifts like warm temperate monsoon climate, long coastline, and rare geological disasters etc, Shandong has been a major agricultural province since ancient times. Meanwhile, Shandong Province starts the earliest contact with modern agricultural production. In Shandong agricultural cultivation, breeding, seedling, off-season vegetable greenhouse growing technology, etc., are quite mature, and Shandong is not only learning from overseas with improving the quality and yield of their vegetable varieties, but also constantly lifting their own cultivation technology.