Amidst the global economic slowdown, China’s economy has met with a new normal. With ever-changing global pork trade, more countries are exporting pork to China. Increasing sources and volumes of imported pork pose a challenge for the Chinese pork market and pig farms running at higher costs.

China’s 13th Five-Year Plan proposes vigorously promoting the modernization of agriculture, blazing a path of safe and efficient production, resource conservation and eco-friendliness for agriculture. According to the National Pig Production and Development Plan (2016-2020), in terms of mode of development for pig production, ...

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