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...Mueller and his partners chose to set up their first feedlot outside Hohhot, Inner Mongolia's capital, partly because of the local government's aggressive pro-investment policies. Among other things, officials helped the company find land and provided introductions to potential business partners. Ultimately, though, it came down to the fact that Hohhot is a cow town. Two of China's biggest dairies, Mengniu and Yili, have headquarters in the area, and buy milk from thousands of farmers who raise dairy cows in their front yards. There are more than a million cows around Hohhot; the bustling city...
...Cattle is counting on the same farmers to help them push their agenda for beef. The private company doesn't breed cows; it buys them, fattens them up on a feedlot and then trucks them off to the slaughterhouse. Today, the half million male calves born every year around Hohhot are mostly sold to blood-serum companies that render the animals' plasma into products such as cosmetics. Timberlake, who is the on-site manager for Western Cattle in China, has been going head to head with serum companies since he arrived six months ago, hitting the dairies and villages with...
...Officials in Hohhot don't see it that way. In the past seven years, the city has almost doubled in both population and physical size, a trend that's in keeping with Inner Mongolia's recent double-digit growth rates. Officials welcome Western Cattle's feedlots as a way to use marginal land, create jobs and produce more food. "If we have a very good feedlot here, it will help people become wealthy," says Teng Guiyuan of Hohhot's Bureau of Investment Attraction. "Small farmers want to make money, but they aren't powerful enough. They need a big company...
...Meanwhile, hobbled by a lack of candid information about the disease, many doctors are unclear about the best treatment methods available to them. At the Inner Mongolia Thoracic Hospital, located in a squalid part of Hohhot in front of a garbage dump, a doctor eagerly opens an express-mail package sent by a colleague in Beijing. Inside it are pages of SARS research from the University of West Virginia, which points to antioxidants as a possible treatment for the mysterious pathogen. "Our preventive measures aren't sufficient," he says. "Beijing sent us instructions about how to prepare for this disease...
...Thankfully, most city residents seem cognizant of basic SARS symptoms, because of an extensive?if belated?publicity campaign. Elementary and middle schools have been closed in Taiyuan, while taxis in both Taiyuan and Hohhot have been disinfected, as have many trains and buses. But information quickly runs dry in the grasslands village of Badian, just a 40-minute drive from Hohhot. There, Mrs. Guo says she's heard of SARS but is mistakenly convinced there aren't any cases in Hohhot...