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China's meat market is twice the size of America's and growing quickly as it's citizens become more wealthy. Pigs are very important to China's economy as the Chinese consume approximately half the world's pork. In 2007 the Chinese government created a pork reserve to help control the price of pigs and stabilize the market. When pig prices are high the reserve releases animals onto the market to reduce the price for consumers, and when pigs are too cheap the reserve buys pigs to keep prices high for the farmers. The demand for pork led to China's largest meat processor making a $4.7 billion bid for Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, in May 2013. If approved it would be the largest Chinese takeover of an American company in history. For more information click these links: http://www.pigprogress.net/Pork-Processing/Meat-Companies/2013/7/Smithfield-in-Chinese-hands--Is-it-a-bad-development-1322521W/ http://www.economist.com/news/business/21578687-chinese-buyer-americas-biggest-pork-producer-pigs-will-fly http://www.cnbc.com/id/100795405