Chinese Company CellX Launches Lab-Grown Meat Factory in Shanghai

Chinese company CellX launched a lab-grown meat factory in Shanghai on Wednesday.

CellX co-founder and CEO Ziliang Yang told the South China Morning Post that the plant has a 2,000-litre bioreactor with a capacity to produce “single-digit tonnes” of cultivated meat per year.

Yang said that they plan to add more bioreactors soon.

“The insights from this pilot facility will be used for our commercial production facility that we’re planning to complete by 2025 [which] will be able to produce hundreds of tonnes of products per year,” Yang said.

There are 1.4 billion people in China, so creating lab-grown meat has been one of their top priorities to provide animal protein to the population without depending on imports.

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