In 2018, giant Chinese pig farms caused outrage by setting fire to the animals to stop the spread of African swine flu that killed millions of the country's pig population.
Pig meat is so vital to China that in 2019, the State Council ruled that all government departments needed to support the pork industry including giving financial aid to boost large farms dedicated to pigs.
Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwei Modern Animal Husbandry built the farms alongside the company's cement factory, and says the high-rise pig farms symbolise China's ambitions for the industry.
Uniformed operatives who run the pig farm observe operations from a bizarre command centre surrounded by CCTV screens as they merge agriculture and technology to create an unusual urban farm.
Horrifying images from inside show rows and rows of pigs crammed into individual pens barely wider than the animals themselves, with feeding tubes dumping food into the troughs in front of them.
