Zhongpin to Present at the Halter Financial Summit on April 7, 2010

BEIJING, April 5 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Zhongpin Inc. ("Zhongpin", Nasdaq: HOGS), a leading meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, today announced that it will present at the Halter Financial Summit 2010 on April 7.

Zhongpin's presentation will start at 09:00am on April 7, 2010 at the pre-forum session of the Halter Financial Summit in the Pudong Shangri-La hotel in Shanghai, China. Smaller meetings will follow the presentation.

Mr. Xianfu Zhu, the Chairman and CEO of Zhongpin, and Mr. Baoke Ben, Vice President, Secretary, and Director, will attend the conference.

Mr. Warren Wang, Zhongpin's Chief Financial Officer, will present the company's strategy, products, markets, financial results, and outlook during the presentation. Mr. Zhu, Mr. Ben, Mr. Wang, and Mr. Sterling Song, Investor Relations Manager, will answer questions during the presentation and subsequent smaller meetings.

Investors interested in attending this event should please contact their Halter Financial Group representative. For more about the conference, please see http://www.halterconferences.com/hfs2010_inf.asp.

About Zhongpin

Zhongpin Inc. is a meat and food processing company that specializes in pork and pork products, vegetables, and fruits in China. Its distribution network in the China covers 20 provinces plus Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Chongqing and includes more than 3,000 retail outlets. Zhongpin's export markets include the European Union and Southeast Asia. For more information about Zhongpin, please visit Zhongpin's website at http://www.zpfood.com.

Safe harbor statement

Certain statements in this news release are forward-looking statements made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Zhongpin has based its forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about future events and trends that it believes may affect its business strategy, results of operations, financial condition, and financing needs. These projections involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, which may include but are not limited to such factors as downturns in the Chinese economy, unanticipated changes in product demand, any effect from the A(H1N1) virus on Zhongpin's market or sales, interruptions in the supply of live pigs and or raw pork, poor performance of the retail distribution network, delivery delays, freezer facility malfunctions, Zhongpin's ability to build and commence new production facilities according to intended timelines, the ability to prepare Zhongpin for growth, the ability to predict Zhongpin's future financial performance and financing ability, changes in regulations, and other information detailed in Zhongpin's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating Zhongpin's forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on those forward-looking statements, which are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. All information provided in this news release is as of the date of this release. Zhongpin does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

SOURCE Zhongpin Inc.