Buying Habits Will Alter US Export Market
CHINA - USDA is advising US exporters to invest in market research before launching new products into China. Although Chinese Customs reports a total agriculture, fisheries and forest product imports of over $40 billion for 2006, and imports of consumer-oriented...

China Claims Bird Flu is Controlled
CHINA - A bird flu outbreak in Turpan city in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been brought under control, the municipal government said Monday.

China Changes Tax Regulations To Rein In Food Inflation
BEIJING - China's Ministry of Finance has said it will tax selected grain exports for one-year in a bid to halt escalating inflation.

China Places Quotas on Grain Exports
CHINA - The Chinese goverment has started a temporary quota policy on the export of wheat, corn and rice powder in a bid to maintain an adequate domestic supply.

SEPPIC Opens New Vaccine Plant in China
CHINA - French chemical and pharmaceutical company SEPPIC has opened a production unit dedicated to the manufacture of vaccine adjuvants in Qing Pu, Shanghai.

Henan; the First Chinese Province to Use Humane Slaughter
CHINA - Henan is set to become the first province in the country to introduce humane methods for killing animals as part of new national guidelines on animal slaughter.

Pigs Banned in Dongguan: Is Poultry Next?
CHINA - The Dongguan government will proceed with its plan to ban pig farming in the city from 2009, a top official said at the weekend. And now poultry might might be next in line.

Skystar Bio-Pharmaceutical Receives Award for Avian Coccidiosis Vaccine Project
CHINA - Skystar Bio- Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a leading bio-pharmaceutical company in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced that the Company was awarded the National High Technology Industrialization Pilot Project ("NHTIPP") for its...

Enormous Poultry Bazaar Takes Off In Baiyun
BAIYUN - Commercial operation of a large and modern specialist poultry wholesale bazaar formally commenced in Guangzhou on Wednesday, strengthening the southern metropolis' status as a major trading center for domestic fowl on the mainland.

China Bans Poultry Imports From Canada
CHINA - China has ordered all poultry imports and relative products shipped from Canada after September 23 to be returned or destroyed to ward off the H7N3 avian influenza virus.

Pork Prices Drop For 7th Consecutive Week
CHINA - The average wholesale price of pork from Sept. 17 to 23 saw a week-on-week decline of 0.8 percent, said the Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday.

General Guangdong Poultry Imports To Resume
CHINA - Imports of chilled and frozen ducks and geese, and duck and goose eggs from areas outside the 24km radius of the bird flu infected area in Guangdong will resume September 25, the Food & Health Bureau says.

Macao Imposes Partial Ban On Mainland Poultry
CHINA - Macao has imposed a partial ban on poultry imports from Panyu district of Guangzhou city in the Chinese mainland, according to an official press release issued Tuesday.

Poultry From Guangdong Banned
CHINA - Hong Kong yesterday imposed a 21-day ban on imports of live and frozen poultry from H5N1-infected farms in Panyu District, Guangdong Province.

China must be given 'fair consideration' on poultry exports
BEIJING - A recent US provision that effectively blocks China's poultry exports to the country leaves an impression that it was "made on political grounds," a top American poultry industry representative said on Friday.