Wintop Food Expands Chinese Chicken Exports on Global Price Edge

What changed

Wintop Food is turning Chinese chicken into a major export business. The Tengzhou company processes 60 million chickens a year, sells breasts, nuggets, meatballs and dumplings in more than 20 countries, and is expanding across 33 acres as overseas sales generate half its profits.

Buyers from Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Russia and Senegal are among the customers seeking its products. Wintop says its meat costs $1,000 less per ton than chicken from Brazil and Thailand.

Why it matters

This is more than a cheap shipment. Export demand is now helping finance Wintop’s next phase of production, while international buyers are treating Chinese chicken as a practical answer to their costs.

That price gap is the story’s sharpest point. Dang Yangyang, Wintop’s general manager, said customers who once distrusted Chinese meat now have to choose between buying from China or paying more elsewhere. If the advantage holds across markets and over time, Chinese poultry exporters could gain a larger place in global food supply. But Wintop’s results do not yet prove that the same pattern applies across the industry.