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China's crayfish market volume has hit close to 150 billion yuan, or US$22 billion, and created jobs for five million people in 2016, according to a recent report released by the Ministry of Agriculture.
The 2017 Development Report on Chinese Crayfish Industry noted that Chinese diners devoured 879,000 tonnes of crayfish in 2016, an increase of nearly 33 percent over 2014, Sina reported.
As to the crayfish yields, the annual output has more than tripled in the past decade, which makes China the world's largest crayfish producer with a yield of 900,000 tonnes in 2016.
Statistics from Meituan.com, China's leading online delivery platform, showed that there were 17,670 crayfish franchised stores in China as of June 2016, almost three times the number of KFC restaurants in the country.
Ma Dawen, head for Hubei aquaculture technology promotion station, said that the crayfish industry will continue to boom in China for the next five to ten years.
(GBTIMES)
