British Sugar Overseas China (BSO China) is an active subsidiary company of ABF, responsible for British Sugar's overseas operations in China. Its sister company British Sugar is the leading supplier of sugar to the UK market.

BSO China, with the full support and backing of ABF, continues to seek investment opportunities through local joint ventures and supply partnerships, to establish strong, long term growth.

BSO China's involvement with China's sugar industry began in 1995 with a joint venture in a cane sugar plant in Guangxi Province. Through investment and training, the plant's cane crushing throughput was doubled in eighteen months to 5,000 tonnes per day. Similar achievements have been made in other plants and in agricultural development.

The company now has majority control in four cane sugar factories in China. Collectively they process nearly four million tonnes of cane and produce about 500,000 tonnes of sugar annually. They also produce a number of co-products such as bagasse, molasses, fertilizer and alcohol. The BoQing company also produces 20,000 tonnes per year of refined white sugar.

In October 2007, BSO formed a new joint venture, BoTian Sugar Company Limited ("BoTian"), with the Hebei Tian Lu Sugar Group (“Tian Lu”). This JV is headquartered in Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, and will initially own and operate four beet sugar factories: Yi'an and Wangkai in Heilongjiang province, Zhangbei in Hebei province and Qianqi in Inner Mongolia. The JV has also taken over operation of 7 other mills across the region. Sugar production in these mills in 2006/07 was 250,000 tonnes.

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