Heilongjiang Provincial Price Monitoring Center holds a symposium on the situation of the live pig market.

In order to assess the production situation of pigs, accurately grasp the market price trend in the second half of the year, and make predictions and early warnings, the Price Monitoring Center of Heilongjiang Province organized a symposium on the pig market situation on April 17. Thirteen well-known enterprise leaders and senior industry experts from the Heilongjiang Provincial Cost Investigation and Audit Bureau, the Provincial Meat Association, and related fields such as pig farming, slaughter, meat processing, and pig futures attended the symposium. During the meeting, the Price Monitoring Center of Heilongjiang Province reported on the monitoring of pig market prices and the price-to-feed ratio in the province since 2025. The leaders of related enterprises introduced the recent capacity utilization, pig and product prices, fluctuation of operating costs, and profit and loss situation of their enterprises, and conducted in-depth analysis and discussions on the current development status of the pig and pork industry, market price trends, measures to deal with price fluctuations, and how to achieve high-quality development in the future. The enterprises reflected that the prospects for capacity reduction are worrying, as factors such as rapid expansion of group farming, efficiency improvement in farming, weakening trend in pork consumption, and uneven subsidy policies are affecting the industry. If comprehensive measures to reduce capacity are not taken, it will be difficult to clear the overcapacity in the short term, and the market will not see significant improvement. All participants unanimously agreed that the current overcapacity and supply-demand imbalance in the pig industry in Heilongjiang Province and the whole country are prominent issues, with pig prices continuously running at a low level, and the industry as a whole suffering deep losses, currently in a difficult phase of capacity reduction. Representatives at the meeting suggested strict control of new capacity, optimization of subsidy allocation, improvement of "insurance + futures" risk protection, increased financial support for small and medium-sized farming entities, and promotion of orderly clearance of inefficient capacity in the industry. This symposium provided important references for Heilongjiang Province to ensure stable supply and prices of pigs in the second half of the year, strengthen predictions and early warnings, and implement control measures scientifically.