Pakistan’s donkey industry has just found a major Chinese partner. Dong’e-E-Jiao Co., Ltd. has picked Gwadar-based Hangeng Group as its strategic partner in Pakistan, and the two companies signed a 10-year cooperation agreement in Liaocheng, Shandong. The deal is aimed at modernizing Pakistan’s donkey breeding, management and export business and boosting broader livestock and agricultural ties between the two countries.
Key Takeaways
- Dong’e-E-Jiao, Hangeng Group sign 10-year deal for donkey industry in Shandong
- Deal includes new Pakistan Research Center for Donkey Industry
- The two companies will co-fund a laboratory dedicated to the donkey industry.
- Cooperation includes breeding, disease control, processing and export certification to China.
- Job creation, increased farmers’ income key outcomes, says CEO Andy Liao
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A Dedicated Research Center Becomes Reality
The deal centers on a plan for the establishment of the Pakistan Research Center for the Donkey Industry, which Hangeng Group will set up. The center will have a separate unit for sustainable development and animal welfare. The center is expected to conduct research, improve breeds, support nutrition and disease prevention, and establish industry norms that don’t yet exist in any organized form. In addition, the two companies intend to co-fund a dedicated laboratory, developed specifically to conduct research on the donkey industry.
Two Companies, Two Different Strengths
The partnership works because each side provides what the other lacks. Dong’e-E-Jiao is providing scientific research capability, professional training and expertise in quality standards and supply-chain development. Hangeng, meanwhile, has a working value chain on the ground in Pakistan. This includes selective breeding, farm production, contract farming, traceability, slaughtering, processing and current exports to China.
Both companies are expected to bolster farm registration and breeding records as part of the deal. They also want to improve disease inspection and traceability back to the source animal, groundwork that is very important when exports get into the picture.
The Real Work: Meeting China’s Export Standards
The Chinese market is not just a place to sell a product. It demands veterinary certification, quarantine procedures and customs co-ordination that Pakistan’s donkey trade has never had to navigate at this scale before. That is exactly what the two companies will do under the agreement, working with the relevant authorities, including traceability verification at each step.
Technical cooperation will also include animal nutrition, feed management and disease control. The partners also plan to upgrade slaughtering, processing, warehousing and cold-chain facilities across Pakistan, which are necessary if Pakistani exports are going to be consistently compliant with China’s safety and market-access requirements.
What it means for farmers in Pakistan
Hangeng Group CEO Andy Liao said the partnership was a real chance to upgrade Pakistan’s donkey industry. He said jobs, higher farmer incomes, and stronger veterinary skills across the country were expected to be benefits. He also pitched the deal as a way of shifting the sector toward higher-value livestock production, and away from the informal, lower-value trade that has largely defined it until now.
Sustainability Built In, Not Bolted On
The agreement doesn’t sound like a straightforward commercial deal. Both companies have pledged to animal welfare and environmental protection as core parts of the deal, not an afterthought. They have also agreed to work against practices that could damage the industry’s long term future, implying the partnership is aimed at something that will last well beyond the initial ten years.
Pakistan-China Agricultural Relationship: A New Front Line
This deal opens up a corner of Pakistan-China collaboration that has not received much attention before. It combines Chinese research and technical expertise with Pakistan’s existing production base and supply infrastructure. Exact investment figures and product details are still being finalized. They will come later in follow-up agreements as the partnership moves from paper to practice.
