China

Dao Foods, a cross-border impact investment venture helping bring sustainable protein to China, has just announced the launch of its Dao Foods Venture Fund 1, which will support and invest in 30 alternative protein companies within the…
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Last week, President Xi Jinping made a surprise announcement during the United Nations conference that China will drastically slash emissions and reach net-zero by 2060. As the world’s biggest polluting nation, the country’s renewed…
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Eat Just, Inc., the food tech behind the famous plant-based JUST Egg, has just announced the opening of its first-ever Future Food Studio in Shanghai. It will be the first 100% plant-based culinary studio to land in China where visitors…
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Green Planet Foods, a Singapore-based venture studio focused on plant-based food and advanced farming technologies, has just launched its venture studio. It will act as both a product innovator and an incubator that invests in solutions…
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Beyond Meat has just announced an agreement with Jiaxing Economic & Technological Development Zone (JXEDZ) to design and develop its manufacturing footprint in the area with a new facility with ready access to Shanghai. This will make…
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Hey Maet, a new plant-based meat startup that just entered the Chinese alternative meat industry, has recently announced significant investment as well as a partnership with Shuangta Food, a pea protein company that supplies Beyond Meat.…
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Alchemy Foodtech recently revealed that it is eyeing China as its next potential market opportunity after launching its first product, Alchemy Fibre, in its home base in Singapore. The product, which comes in powder form, lowers the…
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China has revised sustainability rules governing its distant-water fishing fleet, which has often made headlines for its illegal activities. While the new rules will mean tougher penalties for fishing companies and captains that break the…
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By: Tim Hornyak New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from around the world gathered virtually in July for a joint conference of the Japan Geoscience…
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Starfield Food Science & Technology, a Chinese food tech developing plant-based meat alternatives, has recently announced the completion of its Series A funding round ahead of a roll out of its products across more than 20 foodservice…
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Meet Howey Ou, the 17-year-old girl who is the only teenage climate striker in China (there are other activists, but Ou is the only public striker). Every Friday, Howey takes to the streets to publicly demand the Chinese government to take…
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White Castle China, the fast food chain famous for its sliders, has just partnered with Green Monday to begin offering a vegetarian Omnipork Kimchi Burger across its outlets in the country. It comes as demand from Chinese consumers for…
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August 12 2020 Update: The Omnipork Shanghai launch has been so successful, with some branches reportedly selling out the first week that Gll Wonton has announced they will go ahead with a China nationwide launch of the plant-based menu…
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Some of the world’s largest fashion houses and retailers are complicit in human rights abuses and forced labour being carried out against the Uighur minority Muslim people in the Xinjiang region of China, says a coalition of human rights…
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Following its partnership with fast food giant KFC to launch chicken-free plant-based nuggets in China earlier this year, Cargill will now be debuting its own consumer facing plant-based meat brand. Called PlantEver, the new brand will…
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After entering consumer retail in China earlier this month, Beyond Meat will now sell its plant-based burger patties at select Metro China supermarket locations in Shanghai starting today. It marks the El Segundo, California-based food…
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A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia. After a hospital in Bayannur alerted the authorities on Sunday (July 5), the local health committee of the city has issued a warning…
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Beyond Meat, the El Segundo, California-based food tech at the forefront of the plant-based industry, has just entered consumer retail in mainland China. Following its recent high-profile foodservice partnerships with Starbucks China and…
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In a plenary session between the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC), cell-based meat development was discussed as a major solution to make China’s food supply more…
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Hong Kong and New York-based alternative protein venture capital fund Lever VC and Asia venture accelerator firm Brinc have announced a new joint investment fund and accelerator to support plant-based and cultivated meat and dairy meat and…
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ALDI China has just launched its new line of meatless ready-made convenience meals in Shanghai made with Omnipork, the vegan-friendly pork mince analogue made by Hong Kong-based food tech OmniFoods. The new products will be available for…
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