China’s Fur Trade and its position in the Global Fur Industry – Update 2024 / 2025

ACTAsia’s consumer surveys are the most comprehensive studies in the world on the fur issue in China.

The latest report into China’s multi-billion fur industry emphasises the serious implications for global health and the future of fur farming.

While tens of millions of wild animals are still killed annually for fur, production has fallen sharply over the past decade, particularly in Europe and North America, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic (FIFUR, 2025; Fur Free Alliance, 2024).

Since fur farming is banned in most European countries, China now dominates fur farming, processing, consumption, and global trade almost exclusively.
However, China’s fur industry has experienced a dramatic contraction, with total mink, fox, and raccoon dog pelt production falling from 87M pelts in 2014 to 8.53M in 2025 (CLIA, 2026).

This report further finds that fur farms present serious public health threats, particularly as reservoirs for zoonotic diseases such as SARS-CoV-2 (Jahid et al., 2024). These risks directly contradict the principles of the One Health approach and undermine global pandemic prevention efforts (Sophie, 2025).

Note: This 2026 publication uses data from 2024/2025.

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