1. Report Industry Investment Rating There is no information provided regarding the report industry investment rating in the given content. 2. Core Viewpoints of the Report - Strategy suggestion: Wait for a rebound and then conduct short - selling operations [7] - Market review: The hog price faced downward pressure and declined. The main contract dropped by 2.18% on a weekly basis [8][11] - Market outlook: On the supply side, the entry of secondary fattening decreased. As the May Day holiday approached, some breeders and secondary fatteners sold large hogs, leading to an increase in the average slaughter weight. The spread between standard and fat hogs turned positive, and the prices of feed raw materials rose, increasing the risk of secondary fattening. The pressure caused by the postponed supply may gradually emerge. According to the hog breeding cycle, the sow production capacity is in an increasing cycle in the second and third quarters, and the medium - term supply pressure is expected to increase. On the demand side, the slaughterhouse operating rate rose again last week. As the May Day holiday approaches, the terminal demand may improve later, and the operating rate may maintain a slight upward trend. There are still passive inventory - building phenomena in a few regions. The basis of the main hog contract has retracted from a deep discount to a relatively normal range. In the short term, there is a game between supply and demand, and the hog price will fluctuate. However, the medium - term fundamentals are bearish, and it is expected that the market center will move down slightly in the future [8] 3. Summary by Relevant Catalogs 3.1 Weekly Highlights Summary - Strategy: Wait for a rebound and short - sell [7] - Market review: The hog price declined, with the main contract down 2.18% weekly [8][11] - Outlook: Supply pressure may increase in the medium - term, while short - term demand may improve. The price will fluctuate in the short term and move down slightly in the medium - term [8] 3.2 Futures Market Situation - Price change: The futures price fell, and the main contract dropped by 2.18% on a weekly basis [11] - Net position and warehouse receipt: As of April 25th, the net short position of the top 20 holders decreased by 822 lots to 15,367 lots compared with last week, and the futures warehouse receipts increased by 150 to 665 lots [18] 3.3 Spot Market Situation - Basis: On Friday, the basis of the May hog contract was 985 yuan/ton, and that of the September contract was 950 yuan/ton [22] - Hog and piglet prices: This week, the national average hog price was 14.96 yuan/kg, up 0.01 yuan/kg from last week and 2.19% from last month. The average price of 15 - kg weaned piglets was 40.90 yuan/kg, unchanged from last week and up 0.86% from last month [29] - Pork and sow prices: As of the week of April 17th, the national average pork price was 26.08 yuan/kg, up 0.05 yuan/kg from the previous week. The average price of binary sows was 32.51 yuan/kg, unchanged from the previous week [33] - Pig - grain ratio: As of the week of April 16th, 2025, the pig - grain ratio was 6.72, up 0.01 from the previous week [37] 3.4 Upstream Situation - Sow inventory: In March 2025, the inventory of reproductive sows was 40.39 million, a decrease of 270,000 from the previous month and an increase of 1.17% year - on - year, equivalent to 103.6% of the normal inventory. Among the 208 sample enterprises, the inventory of reproductive sows in 123 large - scale farms increased slightly by 0.08% month - on - month and 4.83% year - on - year in March, and that in 85 small and medium - sized farms increased slightly by 0.41% month - on - month and 11.89% year - on - year [42] - Hog inventory: In Q1 2023, the national hog inventory was 41.731 million, a decrease of 1.012 million from the end of the previous quarter and an increase of 881,000 year - on - year. In March, the inventory of commercial hogs in 123 large - scale farms increased by 0.27% month - on - month and 6.32% year - on - year, and that in 85 small and medium - sized farms increased by 2.57% month - on - month and 12.37% year - on - year [45] - Slaughter volume and weight: In March, the slaughter volume of commercial hogs in 123 large - scale farms increased by 17.43% month - on - month and 22.65% year - on - year, and that in 85 small and medium - sized farms increased by 5.01% month - on - month and 76.16% year - on - year. The average slaughter weight of national outer - ternary hogs this week was 124.04 kg, an increase of 0.03 kg from last week [48] 3.5 Industry Situation - Breeding profit: As of April 25th, the profit of purchasing piglets for breeding was 53.53 yuan/head, an increase of 31.74 yuan/head compared with last week; the profit of self - breeding and self - raising was 100.16 yuan/head, an increase of 20.71 yuan/head compared with last week. The profit of poultry breeding was 0.05 yuan/head, an increase of 0.01 yuan/head week - on - week [53] - Import volume: From January to March 2025, China imported 280,000 tons of pork, a year - on - year increase of 7.69%, but it was at a historically low level [58] - Substitute products: As of the week of April 25th, the price of white - striped chickens was 13.5 yuan/kg, unchanged from last week. As of the week of April 24th, the average price difference between standard and fat hogs was 0.1 yuan/kg, with the spread narrowing by 0.12 yuan/kg compared with last week [61] - Feed situation: As of April 24th, the spot price of soybean meal was 4,062.29 yuan/ton, an increase of 667.15 yuan/ton from the previous week; the price of corn was 2,279.61 yuan/ton, an increase of 11.57 yuan/ton from the previous week. As of April 25th, the closing price of the Dalian Commodity Exchange hog feed cost index increased by 1.31% compared with last week, while the price of fattening hog compound feed was 3.35 yuan/kg, unchanged from last week. As of March 2025, the monthly feed production was 2.7772 million tons, an increase of 142,800 tons year - on - year [67][70][74] - CPI: As of March 2025, the year - on - year CPI decreased by 0.1%, with the decline narrowing by 0.6 percentage points compared with last month [78] 3.6 Downstream Situation - Slaughter and inventory: In the 17th week, the operating rate of slaughterhouses was 27.19%, an increase of 0.35 percentage points compared with last week and 0.41 percentage points higher year - on - year. As of Thursday this week, the frozen product storage capacity of key domestic slaughterhouses was 17.45%, a slight increase of 0.04 percentage points compared with last week [81] - Slaughter volume and catering consumption: As of February 2025, the slaughter volume of designated hog slaughtering enterprises was 21.77 million, a decrease of 42.95% compared with the previous month. In March 2025, the national catering revenue was 423.55 billion yuan, a year - on - year increase of 5.6% [86] 3.7 Hog Stocks The report mentions the stock trends of Muyuan Co., Ltd. and Wens Co., Ltd., but no specific analysis content is provided [87]