At present, workers are working on the King oyster mushroom base of Qingdao city. They will peel and slice after picking the mushroom. Usually, the mushroom picked in the morning will sort and process, and are sold to national markets in the afternoon. The director of the base said, this base has factory production line of King oyster mushroom with cultivating, growing and processing. Spring Festival is the hot season, last year, the price is 14 CNY/kg, the mushrooms were sold to Beijing, Shanghai, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other places.

It is reported that Qingdao become a main mushroom production place and trade center planed by Ministry of Agriculture and Provincial Government. Now, Qingdao has mushroom cultivating area of 20 million square meters, 300 thousand tons of yield, the value of 1.6 billion CNY.