COFCO, the major shareholder of the Chinese dairy company Mengniu, has announced that Mengniu's manufacturing base in the southwestern area of China has been completed and put into production.

Beijing Sanyuan Food Company has won the bidding for Sanlu with a bid of CNY616.5 million at the public auction of part of Sanlu's assets held by by Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court.

According to the Guanshengyuan Company White Rabbit brand milk will return to the Shanghai market in mid-October and sales in the national market will also be resumed soon, as the products have passed tests by Shanghai's Quality Supervision Administration.