Amid falling prices and stiff competition from imports, China has unveiled plans to bolster the cattle industry \u2013 the latest in a series of policies aimed at strengthening key agricultural sectors.<\/p>\n
China will step up its beef production and implement a quality-grading system for locally produced beef to promote consumption of high-quality versions of the meat \u2013 part of an effort announced by the nation\u2019s top economic planner and nine government departments to boost consumption of farm produce.<\/p>\n
A top producer and consumer of agricultural products, China will unleash new consumption potential for a range of diverse, high-quality and differentiated products, while enhancing the appeal of domestic products amid increasing competition from imports, the ministries said in a plan released last week.<\/p>\n
The nutritional structure of Chinese residents\u2019 diets is still not well balanced<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Jiang Wensheng, vice-minister<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently, the nutritional structure of Chinese residents\u2019 diets is still not well balanced, with an insufficient intake of high-quality proteins,\u201d said Jiang Wensheng, vice-minister of agriculture and rural affairs, at a press conference last week. \u201cThis leaves significant room for consumption growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The average wholesale price of beef stood at around 63.8 yuan (US$8.90) per kilogram between July 21 and July 27, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.<\/p>\n
This marked a slight rebound from March prices of around 57.2 yuan per kilogram \u2013 the lowest in eight years \u2013 but remained 17 per cent lower than its average of around 77 yuan per kilogram before prices started slipping in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid falling prices and stiff competition from imports, China has unveiled plans to bolster the cattle industry \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[74929,2841,5533,4214,64,74925,74,74926,18581,74927,79,20154,74930,74928,4217,2397,67,132,66745,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-120527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-agricultural-ministry","9":"tag-argentina","10":"tag-beef","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-cattle-industry","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-chinese-residents","16":"tag-commerce-ministry","17":"tag-douyin","18":"tag-economy","19":"tag-imports","20":"tag-jiang-wensheng","21":"tag-ministry-of-agriculture-and-rural-affairs","22":"tag-south-america","23":"tag-tiktok","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-uruguay","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114975485753368391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}