January 19, 2026/ National Bureau of Statistics/ China.
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The total output of pork, beef, mutton, and poultry in 2025 was 100.72 million tons, up by 4.2% over the previous year, surpassing 100 million tons for the first time. Of this total, the output of pork was 59.38 million tons, up by 4.1%; beef, 8.01 million tons, up by 2.8%; mutton, 4.96 million tons, down by 4.2%; and poultry, 28.37 million tons, up by 6.7%. In 2025, 719.73 million pigs were slaughtered, up by 2.4%, and 429.67 million pigs were registered in stock at the end of the year, up by 0.5%.