China has lost millions of pigs in outbreaks of the disease, pushing its pork prices to record highs, ... Cambodia, Laos, Korea, Myanmar, the Philippines, Poland, Belgium and Bulgaria.

China's Meishan pig is renowned for its large litters, but it and dozens others grow slowly and are too fatty. "It takes about one year for the animal to grow to 100kg.

China says the worst of its pork crisis might be over, more than a year after African swine fever first began ravaging farms across the country. But industry analysts are still pessimistic.

The number of pig farms in China producing fewer than 500 hogs a year plunged 75 percent from 2007 to 2020, to around 21 million, according to an industry report.

The swine epidemic created severe shortages of pork, China’s staple meat. However, food-price inflation slowed in December for the first time in 10 months, figures released Thursday showed.

China’s biggest tech firms want to pamper pigs, too. Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, and JD.com, its rival, are using cameras to track pigs’ faces. Alibaba also uses voice-recognition software ...

Zhu Jianqiang, whose name means "strong-willed pig" in Chinese, became a national icon after surviving 36 days trapped under earthquake rubble in 2008. Yi fang - Imaginechina This heroic hog is on ...

China is so desperate to rebuild pig herds after swine fever that its banks are experimenting with loans to farmers backed by a novel asset: their hogs.