Tremendous achievements of live pig industry in China are closely related to the industrialization of the industry, and development trend of the latter is essential for maintaining sustained and stable development of animal husbandry. The paper, on the basis of defining the evolution of industrialized live pig breeding model, elaborated the industrialized operation models of live pig industry in China since 1978, i.e. household operation, large-scale operation, and industrialized operation. The external environment for the development of live pig industry was analyzed, such as global economic competition, development of experience economy, and stronger green consciousness of consumers. Then development trend of industrialized live pig breeding was analyzed as “expanding international market, consolidating domestic market, integrating resources of live pig industry for the integrated operation, promoting the industrialization model and breeding technology driven by live pig processing, applying animal welfare and the internet of things in live pig breeding industry”.