Business Opportunities and Challenges in China's Beef Industry

Author: Long Worsh (Australia)
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book is the most detailed academic monograph to date describing the economic issues of China's beef cattle industry, providing a comprehensive description of the transformation of China's beef cattle industry from several different aspects. The book is divided into seventeen chapters, with the order of chapters following the sequence of production - processing - circulation - trade, aiming to reflect the flow of the commodity supply chain. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 provide a brief introduction to the overall situation of China's beef cattle industry; Chapters 3 to 7 focus on the production issues of the beef cattle industry, including breeds and genetic resources of beef cattle, crossbreeding between imported and local cattle, traditional pastoral production systems, and agricultural production systems; Chapters 8 and 9 introduce and evaluate the circulation methods of live cattle and the slaughter of live cattle; Chapters 10 and 11 explore the processing of live cattle and by-products, with Chapter 10 focusing on other product series except for fresh meat, offal, cowhide, or leather, particularly processed meat products, and Chapter 11 provides a brief introduction to the leather processing industry and emphasizes the development and adjustment issues of the leather processing industry; Chapters 12, 13, and 14 focus on describing the market issues of beef, with Chapter 12 describing and analyzing the evolution process of traditional live and fresh markets and the mass market system, while Chapters 13 and 14 introduce the unique aspects of beef and by-products in eastern Chinese cities; Chapters 15 and 16 focus on introducing and analyzing the foreign trade of live cattle, beef, and by-products; Chapter 17 presents some major conclusions.
This book is a key research outcome from a four-year study on China's beef cattle industry. During the research process, in addition to other scientific activities, the researchers visited more than 400 relevant personnel in the beef cattle industry across 14 provinces in mainland China and Hong Kong. Additionally, two consumer surveys were conducted, involving nearly 2,000 households. The research findings were reported in academic journals, academic conferences, and a seminar held in Beijing in June 2000. This book compiles the diverse ideas of the researchers, providing a comprehensive analysis of China's beef cattle industry.