The crab industry is one of the rich industries and characteristic economies in xinghua city. By 29, the cultivated area of river crabs in the city has reached 68, mu, with an output of 42, tons and an output value of 1.812 billion yuan. The annual output value of river crabs accounts for 2/5 of the total fishery output value and 1/5 of the total agricultural output value of the city. About 1/5 of the per capita net income of farmers in the city comes from the river crab industry. By 29, the dominant industrial belt of ecological hairy crabs along the "332" provincial highway (Daxing Jinjin Highway) has been built, with 1, mu of highly efficient river crab breeding area centered on Anfeng, Yongfeng and other towns, and 2, mu of ecological * * along the "233" provincial highway (Postal Xingyan Highway) and Laoxingtai Highway as demonstration areas. There are 38, mu of contiguous culture area of river crabs over 2, mu in the city, 27 towns and villages with a culture scale of over 1, mu, and 36 enterprises, cooperatives and large households with a culture scale of over 2, mu. The river crab culture has experienced the development process of "river and ditch mixed culture-pond and paddy field stocking-artificial lake imitating wild and sparse culture". They vigorously promoted the application of ecological, safe and healthy culture methods and technologies, which made the culture mode continuously optimized, which not only promoted the improvement of the river crab culture level, but also promoted the river crab culture in the city from raising crabs to raising crabs, and from river crabs to lake crab (hairy crabs). The specifications and quality of Eriocheir sinensis have been significantly improved, showing a gratifying situation of good breeding environment, good product quality, good market sales and good breeding benefits, and the Eriocheir sinensis industry has entered a new stage of steady development. By 21, the city has established 28 fishery (crab) associations and 133 professional cooperatives, and registered the first specialized cooperative association of aquaculture in China. Xinghua registered the trademark, declared the brand and created the famous brand, which effectively guaranteed and greatly improved the benefit of the crab industry, and also effectively guaranteed and greatly promoted the industrialization of the crab industry. By holding the forum for the development of ecological crab industry, hosting the third China Ecological Crab Culture Festival, and organizing crab breeding enterprises to hold Xinghua hairy crab promotion conferences in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain and other places, the popularity of hairy crab brands has been improved, and many enterprises have set up specialty stores and direct sales outlets abroad with the help of thrust, making Xinghua hairy crabs sell well all over the country.

In addition, as agricultural products in various places began to adopt e-commerce mode to sell in a wider range and more comprehensively, Xinghua Hairy Crab also "ran wild" on the Internet and climbed the road of e-commerce.