December 23, 2025

 

Any discussion of Chinese layer-breeding companies expanding overseas inevitably leads to Ningxia Xiaoming Agriculture & Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd.

 

Xiaoming is the only listed company in China's layer breeding sector. Domestically, it holds a market share of about 25%; in Mongolia, its share has exceeded 50%.

 

Xiaoming's cooperation with Mongolian partners began in 2008. Over the past 17 years, its annual supply of hatching eggs to Mongolia has grown steadily from a few tens of thousands to an average of more than two million in recent years. It has also capitalised on its geographical advantages to become a model for China–Mongolia agricultural cooperation.

 

Looking beyond a single company concerning China's hatching egg export market as a whole, three trends have emerged:

 

    - In the past, China's hatching egg exports were largely confined to neighbouring countries. Over the past three years, however, export destinations have diversified rapidly, driven mainly by a surge in shipments to emerging markets. Between 2024 and 2025, exports expanded westward across the Pamirs and south-eastwards into Southeast Asia. For example, Beijing Yukou Poultry exported hatching eggs to Tajikistan and other Central Asian countries for the first time. In 2025, Huayu, based in Fengdu, Chongqing, made its first hatching egg export to Laos, while hatching eggs from Honghe in Yunnan were exported to Tanzania for the first time;

 

    - Previously, Chinese companies exported mainly volume; today, they export quality and technology. Beijing Yukou Poultry, for instance, exports not only hatching eggs but also supporting ‘smart layer' data services. Xiaoming Co. provides disease prevention, control measures, and staff training alongside its hatching egg exports;

 

    - China once relied heavily on imported breeding stock, especially for broilers. It has now achieved independent breeding for both layers and broilers. For layers, this includes Beijing Yukou Poultry's Jing series. For broilers, there are the Shengze series under Fujian Sunner, the Guangming series under Xinguangmu, and the Wode (Wode 188) brand under Beijing Yukou Poultry. In 2024, China's exports of breeding poultry (including hatching eggs and breeding birds) surged by 200% year-on-year, marking China's transformation from an importer to an exporter of genetic resources.

 

China has a vast layer population and breeding technologies that have reached internationally advanced levels, giving it the capacity to supply high-quality genetic stock on a sustained basis. It is expected that, over the coming years, China's hatching egg exports to Africa and Southeast Asia will maintain double-digit growth.

 

- EFL AG-DATA