China’s meat output tops 100 million tonnes for first time, per-capita supply 1.5x world average

The milestone matters less as a number than as a signal of where China's protein demand curve has settled: a population consuming well above the global per-capita average is a structural, not cyclical, feature of world agricultural trade. The ministry's framing around 'multiple channels' for food resources and grain security hints at a policy preference for domestic supply resilience, which shapes import appetite for feed grains and meat alike. Whether that per-capita availability keeps climbing or plateaus is the open question for exporters and for the protein complex generally.