Eurasia Consult scans the food news from China on a daily basis.

On this page, we regularly drop a few lines of what we believe to be interesting information picked up during all that scanning. We will select items that do usually not reach the international media. We will make an effort to start with a clean page each Monday.

Update 28/12/2025

• An Ethiopian specialty coffee trading centre has opened in Zhuzhou, Hunan province.
• Autumn grain purchases across China have surpassed 200 mln mt, 32 mln mt more than last year.

Update 29/12/25

• Youtian Biotech has started producing thaumatin.
• Mengniu Dairy has launched a lactose free milk under the name Soft Milk.
• Shuanghui Meat and Small have jointly launched spicy beef strips.
• Shengnong has launched a horse-shaped cheese snack called Mashang Youqian (lit.: ‘you’s have money soon’).

Update 30/12/2025

• Xingjing county of Sichuan reports an annual caviar capacity of 200 mt.
• Shandong province currently houses 2232 dairy farms, including 26 with 10.000 heads of cattle or more.
• The Chinese seafood output of the first 11 months of 2025 was 66.4887 mln mt; up 4.05%.
• The 100 top Chinese food companies currently include 11 dairy processors; the top 3 being:

Company	rank in Top 100
Yili	8
Mengniu	27
Feihe	33

Update 31/12/2025

• The value of the 2024 Chinese canned beef market was RMB 4.658 billion; up 5.5%.
• Vermont’s agricultural exports to China grew by nearly 80% in the first eight months of 2025.

I will be travelling again in January, so this page may not be updated as frequently as you are used to.