As Virginia mentioned, there has been some media about this..

In The Weekend Australian Magazine last weekend (a Murdoch-owned paper), the 
cover showed a baby being bottle-fed with the headline "White Gold Rush: How 
Bottle-fed babies in China could revive our dairy farmers' fortunes".. and 
uses words like "winning formula, stampede". The article is even more 
depressing for what it doesn't say - that this disadvantages the Chinese 
babies.
Chinese businesses are buying up factories all over Australia and New 
Zealand (and elsewhere), with just one new small plant processing 150 
million litres a year in powder for export.

The article does give us some interesting associated information:
By 2016, it's predicted that China's annual baby formula consumption could 
reach $25 billion, DOUBLE what it was in 2012. Last November, the one-child 
policy was relaxed, allowing couples to have a second child (if either 
parent has no siblings) - this could result in an additional 1-2 million 
births a year.

It's obviously a positive for the dairy industry worldwide, but not for the 
breastfeeding rates and community health in China.. something not mentioned 
at all.

Only one person commented when I posted it on Facebook - "it's also sad that 
we take the milk of a mother of another species for human consumption".
The cover image is here - https://www.facebook.com/capersbooks

Jan Cornfoot
Breastfeeding Advocate and Consultant
www.capersbookstore.com.au

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