On January 25^th, it was learned from Changzhou Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (CIQ) that last year, the city’s exports of salted sausage casings amounted to $ 44,290,000, an increase of 39.37%, mainly shipped to Brazil, the United States, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Germany and South Africa.

Casings dominated half of Changzhou’s agricultural exports. The sharp increase in the amount of casing exports came courtesy of many factors: First, as part of the labor-intensive industries, the sale price of sausage casings kept rising due to the growing processing costs. Secondly, as the economic trend in Europe and America grew steady, the consumer demand for sausages in these areas were increased. Thirdly, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to include China's RMB in benchmark SDR (Special Drawing Rights) currency basket, which marks another step in China's global economic emergence.