Potential of Swine Production in China

By the fast development of national economy and continuous improvement of people's living standard, the demands of meat, especially the pork is growing day by day, it makes the swine production developing quickly. According to statistical data of FAO, the number of survivor,slaughtered, marketing rate of fattened stock, the average weight of carcass are 452 million,518 million, 122%, 78kg respectively, which reaches the average level of the world. It is a significant contribution that China solves the meat problem of the one-fifth population of the world by only occupying 6.44% land of the world. But there is a larger distance between the level of swine production in China comparing with America, German and Denmark.