GANSU PROVINCE

Yak advantage

The 2016 Chinese Yak Dairy Industry Development Forum was held recently in Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Gansu province. More than 300 people in the industry, including high-ranking government officials, economists, and executives from leading companies, attended the forum to discuss how to make better use of China's yak resources. About 95 percent of yaks in the world are in China, and yak milk is believed to be more nutritional than cow milk, due to its rich content of unsaturated fatty acid and proteins, according to Liu Chengguo, an official of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.