Shijiazhuang Yakun Brown Garden Snail Development Ltd., Co.（Yakun） is the largest Chinese enterprise in scale specialized in the development of European edible snails. Since its establishment in 1991, Yakun has been supported strongly by Hebei provincial and Shijiazhuang municipal government officials, and at present a 700-hectare ecological snailery breeding Burgundy snails has been built. Together with other snaileries under its name in China, Yakun has possessed a total area of 2,000 hectares breeding snails with the annual snail yield of 20,000 tons and the total value up to 100 million RMB, which makes Yakun No.1 producer of snails in Asia. As the leader developing snail industry in China, Yakun also possesses a snail breeding base, a snail food processing plant and a snail food research institute in addition to a Paris-based office. Yakun-brand French Burgundy snails and frozen snail meat boiled that are produced in Yakun's food processing plant have been named as high quality well-known products by Hebei Provincial government. Among four world major dish systems, these products are good sales in both Western Europe and Japan in addition to supply to more than 500 grand restaurants in China. The health-care liquor brewed from snails by Yakun is so popular among consumers that the demand exceeds supply. In 2004, snail dishes were titled Hebei famous dishes by Hebei Cuisine Association and won the gold prize in the Fifteenth China National Cuisine Competition held in 2005. At present, Yakun has become a well-known leading enterprise that integrates snail breeding, processing, export and sales together.