September 4, 2009
China tops global meat production
China has become the world's leading meat producer, accounting for 29 percent of the global total output last year, an industry official said Thursday (Sep 3).
Last year, China's meat production reached 72.69 million tonnes, an on-year increase of six percent, Deng Fujiang, vice president of the China Meat Association, told the World Pork Conference which opened Thursday morning in eastern China's coastal city of Qingdao.
Deng said 63.5 percent of the total meat production was pork and nearly half of the world's pork last year had been produced in China.
On the other hand, China is also a major consumer of meat products. It imported 1.84 million tonnes but exported only 742,000 tonnes last year, according to Deng.
