- The first national agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone in China
- National Food Safety Demonstration City
- The only free trade zone with distinctive agricultural characteristics among all pilot free trade zones of China
- National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Demonstration Base
- The significant birthplace of Chinese agriculture civilization
- National Modern Agriculture Industrial Park
- Well-known “Agricultural City” in China and at abroad
- Nationally Designated Eco-Demonstration Zone
- The host city of “China Yangling Agri Hi-Tech Fair”, one of the four science and technology exhibitions with the key support of our country
- Foreign Aid Training Base for Chinese Dry Farming Techniques
The Administrative Committee of Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone as a directly affiliated resident institution of Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government and a public institution at department level, has the administrative power of prefecture level and economic power of provincial level. With a total area of 135km2 and a total population of 240000, Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone subordinates an institution of county level - Yangling Distric.
Located in the west-central part of Guanzhong Plain of Shaanxi Province, Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Industry Demonstration Zone reaches Qishui River as the boundary with Wugong County to the east, echoes Zhouzhi County across Weihe River to the south, borders on Fufeng County to the west and adjoins Fufeng County by Weishui River to the north. It situates between 108º~108º07’at east longitude and 34º12’~34º20’at northern latitude, about 16km from east to west, and 7km from south the north.
Yangling has rich cultural relics, enriched agricultural resources and unique characteristics of agricultural science and technology. It has been successively approved as one of the first batch of agricultural tourism demonstration sites, national leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration region.The tourism industry has become an important support for promoting the rapid development of the demonstration zone.
Yangling is located in northwest inland, and agriculture is a disadvantaged industry, so it is a long and tough process to realize agricultural modernization.In order to stabilize talents, give play to the advantage of agricultural science and education and promote the agricultural development of arid and semi-arid regions, the country fully considered the particularity of Yangling when establishing Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Industry Demonstration Zone.
In recent years, Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone earnestly implements the spirit of the Official Reply of the State Council, exerts the effect as a demonstration zone based on a higher level, deeply implements the development strategy of innovation-driven, accelerates the construction of the world-renowned agricultural science and technology innovation demonstration zone, improves its ability of technical innovation and demonstration-promotion continuously.
China Yangling Agri Hi-Tech Fair ("CAF" for short) is a national 5A agricultural comprehensive exhibition approved by UFI, also one of the four major scientific and technological exhibitions supported by the state. The latest brand value of “CAF” is up to RMB 87.119 billion Yuan as evaluated.Founded in 1994, CAF has been successively held for 30 sessions. During the 30 years, CAF always adhered to the exhibition tenet of "serving agriculture, rural area and farmers".