China's pig farming industry is undergoing a second crisis in a decade, this time caused by African swine fever. The potential pork shortage is changing the layout of China's pig industry and dining tables all over the world.
Editor's Note: The following is an interview by China Daily reporter Wu Yong with Jin Weidong, chairman of Wellhope Agri-Tech JSC Ltd, who started the business from scratch with six partners in 1996. Last year, Wellhope's revenue reached 15.8 billion yuan ($2.29 billion). The company is the leading feed producer in China with more than 20,000 employees and business operations in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal and India.
The first thing Co de Heus, CEO of Royal Dutch De Heus, did after flying from Amsterdam to China was to discuss plans for a pig slaughtering and processing plant in the outskirts of Fushun, Liaoning province.
East China's Zhejiang province has started to witness the initial fruits of 31 measures drafted by the provincial authorities to boost the private sector in a bid to realize high-quality development.
Shaanxi is taking advantage of the online Silk Road to develop cross-border e-commerce. Honey from New Zealand, coffee from Rwanda, durian from Cambodia, as well as healthcare products from Australia, are now all available through online channels.
Poland expects to bolster economic cooperation with China as bilateral trade is going in a positive direction under the framework of Belt and Road Initiative, an official said.
The Chinese economy can "surf through" the tide of Sino-US trade tensions, as both broad-based and targeted measures to stabilize growth will pay off, said senior economists at Netherlands-based global financial institution ING Bank NV.
Raffles Medical Group from Singapore has announced that its Shanghai branch, a Sino-foreign joint venture, will open in the first quarter of next year, the latest signal that foreign investment in the local medical care system is gathering pace.
Ecovacs Robotics, a manufacturer of home-use robotic products, will open a new intelligent manufacturing facility in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, this year.
STUNG TRENG - In early April in Sesan district of Stung Treng province, Cambodia, the reservoir of Lower Sesan II Hydropower Station was sparkling with water merging with the azure sky.
BANGKOK - Anupat Tiprat, 21, has been dreaming of becoming a train driver in his home country Thailand. In coming weeks, he will travel to northern Chinese city of Tianjin to learn train maintenance and driving for three years.
When Richard Edelman first visited Shanghai in 1986, Pudong, now home to the world's leading financial institutions as well as skyscrapers, was just a piece of farmland.
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