Amino Acids China Monthly Report

Welcome to the May issue of Amino Acids China E-News.

Company dynamics

In May 2025, Huaheng Biology's annual report for 2024 shows that revenue increase by 12.37%YoY, while net profit decrease by57.80%YoY; Meihua Group released its Q1 report for 2025, achieved revenue of USD0.87 billion (RMB6.27 billion), a YOY decrease of 3.36%, net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company reached USD0.14 billion (RMB1.02 billion), a YOY increase of 35.52%.

Project Update

• Shandong Xinzhu's 600 t/a creatine monohydrate project
• Ling'an Technology's 10,000 t/a food additives (creatine monohydrate) technical renovation project
• Yong'an Pharmaceutical's 40,000 t/a taurine food additives project
• Tianxin Pharmaceutical's 5,000 t/a β-alanine project
• Shenhui Fine Chemical's amino acids related project
• Meihua Group's R&D center construction project

Governmental Direction

By the end of April 2025, the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China issued a notice on the issuance of the "Plan for Grain Conservation in the Breeding Industry".

Price

In May 2025, prices of both solid methionine and liquid methionine increased slightly YoY.

Import and Export

In April 2025, lysine ester and salt export volume fell by 20.17% MoM, while the import volume increased by 287.72% MoM.

Reminders

• The USD/CNY exchange rate in this newsletter is USD1.00=CNY7.2008, which was sourced from the People's Bank of China on 6 May, 2025. All the prices mentioned in this newsletter will include the price of methionine. All the prices mentioned in this newsletter will include the VAT, unless otherwise specified.
• In this newsletter, the variance rates (MoM, QoQ, YoY, etc.) of all figures that involve RMB/USD conversion (prices, sales values, costs, etc.) are calculated with pre-conversion RMB prices/USD prices. calculated with pre-conversion RMB prices/USD prices. calculated with pre-conversion RMB prices/values, except for the figures in Import and Export column. calculated with pre-conversion RMB prices/values, except for the figures in Import and Export.