According to Reuters the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced on their official website that live chicks from the U.S. will be eligible for importation for breeding purposes. Beijing unjustly imposed a ban on all poultry products from 
the United States in 2015 allegedly due to outbreaks of avian influenza that in the case of broiler strains were not in regions affected by the outbreak.
This action was politically motivated and was an attempt to force U.S. primary breeders to supply great-grandparent level chicks to establish self-generating programs in China. This would have obviated the necessity of importing grandparent packages at regular intervals but would have created the danger of China establishing competitive products to those supplied by primary breeders located in the U.S. The action taken by China in 2015 was inconsistent with then recognized World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) principles of regionalization and in defiance of the reality that the poultry industry in China had and still is affected by endemic avian influenza represented by numerous strains.
Li Jinghui of the China Poultry Association, commented that the change in policy would benefit major primary breeders including Cobb-Vantress, Aviagen and Hy-Line all of whom have achieved or are in the process of attaining OIE Compartment status. Essentially the self-serving about-face by China is necessitated by the shortage of protein 
occasioned by an uncontained outbreak of African swine fever that has depleted sow herds and possibly reduced production by 25 to 35 percent. Shortage of domestic-produced protein coupled with the ongoing disruption to imports caused by COFID-19, has social and political implications for the Central Government.
Rest-assured that when expedient, some form of strong-arming will re-emerge to accomplish the goals of self-sufficiency in poultry genetics and ultimately World competition following established patterns of misappropriation of intellectual property and commercial coercion.