Boyalife Group’s Sinica subsidiary is building the world’s largest animal cloning factory in Tianjin, aiming to produce one million cattle embryos annually, with an investment of CNY200 million. Among the animals it will clone are also sniffer and pet dogs, high-grade beef cattle, racehorses and “non-human primates”. The project could rapidly improve the quality of livestock. The Peking University’s Institute of Molecular Medicine, the Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biomedicine and South Korea’s Sooam Biotech Research Foundation are also partners in the project. Boyalife Chairman Xu Xiaochun said the center would produce 100,000 cattle embryos a year before expanding annual output to one million. Xu said Chinese farmers had struggled to breed enough beef cattle to meet market demand and the center would be the largest of its kind in the world. The factory also plans to set up a cloning lab, a gene bank and a science education center. Since 2000, Chinese scientists have cloned sheep, cattle and pigs. China’s first commercial cloning company was established in September 2014 in Shandong province with the birth of three pure-blooded Tibetan mastiff puppies, the South China Morning Post reports.