Linshu industry chains push output toward 60 billion yuan
Under Mount Cangma in Linshu county, Linyi, East China's Shandong province, production lines run day and night: in the first 10 months of this year, the county's 281 industrial enterprises above designated size turned out 48.79 billion yuan ($6.87 billion) in output, up 8.4 percent year-on-year, with 106 enterprises each exceeding 100 million yuan accounting for 83.3 percent of the total. The county is sprinting toward a full-year target of 60 billion yuan.
Fertilizer chain grows new strength. All three chain-master enterprises of the county's chemical fertilizer industry — Stanley, Kingenta and Jinyimeng — made the 2026 list of Shandong's top 200 private enterprises, with Kingenta and Stanley also on the province's innovation top 100. The chain that earned Linshu the title of "China's compound fertilizer capital" is reaching into new fertilizers, fine chemicals and new chemical materials. The county was selected this year as one of only five provincial pilot zones for SME digital transformation, with six enterprises approved as basic-level smart factories, Jinyimeng certified at DCMM level 3, and Stanley approved as a national outstanding-level smart factory — the only one in Linyi. Green upgrades run in parallel: Sanxing Food became a provincial green factory, and Kehan Siyuan's self-developed wastewater recycling system reuses more than 90 percent of its water.
Silicon-based new materials rise from a county without silicon sand. At Kehan Siyuan New Materials, a fully automated line producing 300,000 tonnes of high-purity nano silica a year runs at full capacity on orders for North America, Europe and Southeast Asia; its 400-plus ultra-pure silica sol products go into chip polishing, aerospace and precision casting. Nearby, Shantian New Materials Group, a national single-item champion, holds 40 percent of the domestic market for silicon carbide ceramic rollers — lasting more than 10 times longer than traditional alumina rollers — and has set an industry record with the world's largest silicon carbide reaction-sintering vacuum furnace, while leading a research institute on silicon carbide ceramic composites. Jinyi New Materials' Shandong base in the county photoelectric industrial park produces spherical silica powder for high-grade copper-clad laminates, completing the chain's layout in electronic packaging materials.
One chicken becomes a 10-billion-yuan chain. At Taihe Food (Linshu) in the county economic development zone, robotic arms eviscerate birds and separate bodies from claws in 0.2 seconds, and frozen drumsticks ship within two hours. The phase-one project, commissioned this year, provides more than 3,500 jobs and is expected to top 5 billion yuan in annual output, with daily slaughter capacity reaching 600,000 white-feather broilers at full run. The white-feather broiler industry, seeded in the 1980s by firms including Shenghe and Ruihe, now generates more than 10.38 billion yuan across the whole chain and employs over 12,000 people; a 380-mu (25.3-hectare) deep-processing industrial park with 180,000 square meters of customized plants is under construction to build an "1+N" system spanning pet food, packaging and cold-chain logistics.
Services run ahead of projects. The county has opened its annual work with an industrial-project meeting for five consecutive years, seats entrepreneurs on the platform and awards gold medals for outstanding contributions. Monthly entrepreneur reception days have held 11 sessions this year, receiving 59 entrepreneurs, taking 81 demands and settling 41. A 189-million-yuan science and technology innovation and service center applies a "five ones" model — one industry, one main direction, one chief scientist, one R&D team, one cluster. Under the "mu-yield benefit" evaluation reform, the county redeveloped 966.5 mu (64.4 hectares) of low-efficiency industrial land this year. The nurturing system now counts four national single-item champions, five national "little giant" firms and 87 provincial "specialized and sophisticated" enterprises.
Editor：韩蒙蒙