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Fish farms are next on menu for New Hope's billionaire founder

The billionaire chairman of New Hope Group Co., China’s largest privately held agricultural company, is looking to buy fish-farming assets in Southeast Asia as part of a 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) push to expand overseas.

April 13, 2016


The billionaire chairman of New Hope Group Co., China’s largest privately held agricultural company, is looking to buy fish-farming assets in Southeast Asia as part of a 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) push to expand overseas.

“We plan to acquire an aquaculture company,” Liu Yonghao, 64, said in an interview in Beijing. Though he declined to name any companies, Liu said targets need to be sizable and have good natural resources including light, water, land and low-cost labor resources.

Liu’s comments help highlight how Chinese agriculture firms such as New Hope and state-owned China National Chemical Corp. are seeing bigger appetites for overseas assets to feed the world’s largest population. New Hope alone plans to spend 10 billion yuan in the next three to five years on high-end animal protein and food-related assets overseas, spurred by demand from the nation’s expanding middle class.

“We shall go abroad and use our advantages in scale and the market to do acquisitions,” Liu said.

Source: Bloomberg News. Read the full story here.

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