Du Feng Xuan, Xiongzhi Bakery Set Cage-Free Targets as China's Food Industry Raises Bar

At a production facility in Shanghai, workers prepare bone broth bases that will end up in restaurant kitchens and food processing lines across China and beyond. The ducks behind those broths are raised in net-bed and fermentation-bed systems, free to move and preen. For Dufengxuan, this is not a new development—it is the next step in a commitment that has been building for years. For Xiongzhi Bakery, a fast-growing chain stacking handmade loaves across East China, a similar logic applies: the eggs in the bread matter as much as the bread itself.

DUFENGXUAN: EXTENDING CAGE-FREE TO DUCK EGGS AND DUCK MEAT

Fushun Dufengxuan Gushen Biotechnology Co., Ltd. was already the first broth-ingredient supplier in China to set an animal-welfare target for cage-free eggs and chicken meat. Now the company has gone further. It has announced plans to achieve 100% cage-free sourcing of duck meat and duck eggs across all its global factories by 2030.

The company owns multiple brands, including Tangshidai, Tangleshi, Xinshishen, and Zhongaotangye, and supplies standardized bone broth bases to catering and food-processing enterprises across the country. Its cage-free duck commitment extends its existing welfare standards to cover one of Chinese cuisine's most essential ingredients.

XIONGZHI BAKERY: 100% CAGE-FREE EGGS BY 2030

Xiongzhi Bakery, a fast-growing chain under the Xiongzhi Group with 100 stores and production centers across East China, has set its own target: 100% cage-free eggs and egg products by 2030. For a bakery brand built on handmade bread and the promise of quality at scale, the commitment is both a supply chain upgrade and an expression of what the brand has always held: that food safety and integrity are one and the same.

More Chinese food companies are treating cage-free sourcing not as an added cost but as a baseline expectation, particularly as brands look toward international markets where welfare standards are increasingly a prerequisite. Dufengxuan and Xiongzhi Bakery are two more names joining that direction, each from a different corner of China's food industry, arriving at the same conclusion.