BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s state planner said on Friday that it will encourage foreign investment in livestock and poultry breeding, as well as plant-based meats substitutes, in the new year.
The move by the National Development and Reform Commission comes as China, the world’s top meat market, strives to boost supplies of meat and alternative proteins to plug a major pork shortage after African swine fever decimated its massive pig herd.
(Reporting by Hallie Gu and Tom Daly; editing by John Stonestreet)
