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Western food grows popular in China

www.chinanews.cn 2005-04-04 13:41:44

Chinanews, Beijing, Apr. 1 (By Liu Changzhong) - As China's integration
into the world economy accelerates, western food has grown from a small
novelty into an emerging industry and an essential part of Chinese food
culture. In recent years, China's food industry has maintained rapid
growth in business volume, with western food contributing its fair
proportion, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Over the past ten years, western food has become more diversified and has
increasingly provided Chinese consumers with unconventional enjoyment, a
complete turn from traditional Chinese food culture. China now has
western-style cuisine of various nationalities and special
characteristics. French, German and Italian restaurants are the most
popular. Western-style fast food is led by McDonald's and KFC; bars,
coffee shops, Japanese sushi bars, South Korean cuisine and south-east
Asian delicacies are also ascendant.
Latest statistics from the China Cuisine Association indicate that there
are more than 20,000 western catering companies in 30 provincial-level
administrative regions and more than 60% of China's cities. These
establishments employ a total of 140,000 staff. The western food industry
has even developed in Yunnan's Lijiang, Tibet's Lhasa, Ningxia's Yinchuan
and other areas with exuberant vitality.
According to industrial resources, China's western food consumption has a
nutlike structure -a majority of the restaurants are medium-priced, with
a few extremely cheap and extremely expensive ones - which guarantees a
relatively concentrated and stable consumption group and high profits for
the western food business.

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