Overview
China's policies on agriculture and agricultural trade have changed
dramatically over the last 20 years, reducing the role of government
intervention and centralized planning and simultaneously increasing
the role of market forces. China's membership in the World Trade
Organization (WTO) will further increase reliance on market forces,
and will enhance opportunities for U.S. agricultural exports. As
the incomes of China's 1.3 billion people continue to rise, demand
for more and higher quality food products will grow. Domestic production
will be unable to meet all of this demand, and in the future China
will be a key market for agricultural exports.
Features
Who Will China Feed? (June 2008). Though China continues to be a major player in global food exports, growing resource constraints and environmental costs could mean an end to "easy" growth for Chinese agriculture.
China's Food and Agriculture: Issues for the 21st Century (April 2002). A series of short articles gives an overview of food consumption and production trends and policy issues facing one of the key players in world agricultural trade.
China Agricultural and Economic Data. A database containing official Chinese statistics collected by ERS on agricultural production, food consumption, price indexes, macroeconomic data, and industrial output.
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