China posts bumper grain harvest, steady livestock output growth in 2025

China recorded another year of steady growth in agricultural output in 2025, with grain production reaching a new high and the livestock sector posting solid gains in output, show the latest official data released on Monday.

The series of data on grain production and animal husbandry were unveiled at a press conference held in Beijing by the State Council Information Office (SCIO).

"The year 2025 witnessed grain production growth with a bumper harvest, and also steady growth in animal husbandry. In the year, the total grain output reached 714.88 million tonnes, up 8.38 million tonnes or 1.2 percent, year on year. Of this total, the output of summer grain slipped slightly by 0.1 percent to 149.75 million tonnes, while that of early rice rose 1.2 percent to 28.51 million tonnes. The output of autumn grain increased by 1.5 percent to 536.62 million tonnes," said Kang Yi, head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), at the press conference.

Computed by varieties, the output of wheat reached 140.07 million tonnes in 2025, which was on a par with the previous year; corn, 301.24 million tonnes, up 2.1 percent; rice, 209.04 million tonnes, up 0.7 percent; and soybean, 20.91 million tonnes, up 1.3 percent, according to Kang.

"In 2025, the total output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry reached 100.72 million tonnes, up 4.2 percent over the previous year, surpassing the 100-million-ton threshold for the first time. In breakdown, the output of pork rose 4.1 percent to 59.38 million tonnes; beef, 8.01 million tonnes, up 2.8 percent; mutton, 4.96 million tonnes, down 4.2 percent; and poultry, 28.37 million tonnes, up 6.7 percent. The production of milk reached 40.91 million tonnes, up 0.3 percent, and that of eggs stood at 34.98 million tonnes, down 2.5 percent. In the year, 719.73 million pigs were slaughtered, up 2.4 percent, and 429.67 million pigs were registered in stock at the end of the year, up 0.5 percent," he said.