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When husband and wife Qin Yinglin and Qian Ying set up their first pig farm in Neixiang, a small town in Central China’s Henan province, in 1995, they could hardly have imagined their tiny operation of 200 breeding sows and 2,000 piglets would one day become a company with 1,000 pig farms across China and 5.4% of the global hog farming market.
In the first nine months of this year, that company, Muyuan Foods Co. Ltd. (002714.SZ) sold 57.3 million hogs and 11.5 million piglets. Its integrated pork processing and feed industry complex in Neixiang alone can process up to 2.1 million hogs per year, in 21 individual six-story buildings, each with an annual production capacity of 100,000 hogs.