Construction on a large joint-venture geese center, attracting investment of 250 million US dollars from China and Hungary, has started early this week in Tongliao, a city in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

According to an agreement signed by the two sides in Beijing in May 2005, the geese center, with an acreage of 1 million mu (67,000 ha.), is to include two large-scale incubating factories, a feather processing factory, a cooked food factory, two feedstuff factories, 50 breeder factories and a slaughterhouse.

The annual output of the geese center is expected to hit 4 billion yuan (494 million US dollars) after five years, with yearly yield of 20 million geese and 40 million ducks.

The fixed asset investment in the geese center this year is about 100 million yuan, according to the Tongliao city government.

Source: Xinhua