China has more than 300 million ha of exploitable
grasslands, distributed mainly throughout Inner Mongolia,
the basin between the Tianshan and Altai mountains in
Xinjiang and on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. China has great
numbers of over 400 species of domestic animals, including
pigs, cattle, sheep, horses, donkeys, mules, camels,
chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits. Since 1978, animal
husbandry has developed rapidly; the outputs of meat, eggs,
milk and leather products have doubled and redoubled, and
they have been exported in large quantities.
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