China: Adhere to "bringing in" and "going out" to contribute to world development

China: Adhere to "bringing in" and "going out" to contribute to world development

Fuzhou's fragrant jasmine tea, the charming Hani terraced rice field, and the ecologically harmonious rice-fish symbiosis system... These precious agricultural and cultural resources of China have now been selected as “global important agricultural cultural heritage”. Among the identified important global agricultural cultural heritages, about one-third of the total from China, more and more foreign friends feel the charm of China's farming culture.

"In recent years, China's agricultural international exchanges and cooperation have continued to develop, the level of agricultural opening up has been continuously improved, agricultural foreign investment cooperation has been further promoted, the import and export of agricultural products (000061, stocks) has been developing steadily, and the international influence of agriculture has gradually increased, with key countries and regions. And the multi-bilateral cooperation in agriculture by international organizations has achieved remarkable results.” Zeng Pengfei, Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that through the combination of “bringing in” and “going out”, the “two markets” and “two resources” can be fully utilized. The modernization process has been further accelerated and has also contributed to world agriculture.

Continue to introduce

International agricultural cooperation helps China's agriculture

Since joining the WTO, China's agricultural product market has been fully open, and international trade in agricultural products has entered a stage of rapid development. The total trade volume of agricultural products has increased by 5.7 times, and China has become the third largest agricultural trade country in the world.

According to statistics, in 2015 China's agricultural exports reached 70.68 billion US dollars, an increase of 43.2% compared with the end of the "11th Five-Year Plan". The structure of export varieties was further optimized, and the characteristic agricultural products continued to exert competitive advantages. Compared with the same period, the export value of fruits, vegetables, livestock products and aquatic products increased by 58.1%, 33.4%, 24.0% and 47.0% respectively.

Cheng Guoqiang, a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council, was the head of the expert group on agricultural negotiations for China's WTO accession. He believes that in the international trade of agricultural products, China has ensured the stable and healthy development of agricultural products trade by making good use of two resources, two markets and two types of rules. On the one hand, through appropriate imports, adjusting the surplus, to make up for the lack of domestic production capacity; on the other hand, continue to increase efforts to support the export of agricultural products with comparative advantages.

In recent years, through the implementation of a number of major joint projects, China has introduced a large number of agricultural germplasm resources, technology, agricultural machinery and equipment, management experience and intellectual resources, and improved the efficiency of agricultural production. The introduction of foreign advanced agricultural technology is a long-term task of implementing an innovation-driven strategy. In fact, as early as 1994, China launched the 948 program and introduced international advanced agricultural science and technology.

According to statistics, as of September 2015, 948 plans to send 1576 experts to more than 40 countries (regions) to study and conduct cooperative research, and invited 1,253 experts to carry out agricultural technology exchange, cooperative research and training. Introduced more than 24,700 animal and plant, microbial germplasm resources and excellent varieties, more than 1,000 advanced and practical technologies, and more than 430 key equipments (sets). Through digestion and absorption and innovation, more than 260 new varieties were cultivated, 545 technical and variety rights were obtained, and nearly 2,100 doctoral talents were trained.

It is estimated that international cooperation will shorten the time of agricultural science and technology research and development in China by an average of 10 to 15 years, and save R&D expenditure by 30% to 50%. The advanced technologies of international agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery introduced almost include agricultural pre-production, mid-production and post-production processing. All links.

Actively go out

Contribute to the development of world agriculture

At the same time of attracting capital and attracting wisdom, China's agriculture is also constantly increasing the pace of “going out”. The agricultural foreign investment cooperation has presented a wide-area and multi-level structure. By the end of 2015, the stock of agricultural foreign investment exceeded US$11.74 billion, and more than 1,300 foreign enterprises engaged in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery were established in 85 countries and regions around the world, covering various industries such as plantation, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, as well as production, processing and warehousing. Main links such as logistics.

With the support of financial institutions for agricultural external cooperation, by the end of 2015, the Export-Import Bank of China has approved more than RMB 23 billion in loans for about 90 agricultural foreign cooperation loans recommended by the Ministry of Agriculture. The industry believes that by strengthening the top-level design, China has initially established five major systems: the agricultural “going out” planning system, the policy framework system, the credit evaluation system, the public information service system, and the talent team construction system.

In addition to foreign investment, China has continued to strengthen agricultural technology and financial assistance to developing countries in recent years. Since the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization launched the relevant action plan for South-South cooperation in 1996, China has actively promoted the orderly implementation of the project and has been widely recognized around the world. As of the end of May 2016, 23 South-South cooperation projects have been launched, and 1,040 agricultural experts and technicians have been dispatched to 26 countries in Africa, Asia, South Pacific (601099, stocks).

“Last year, China and the World Food Program drafted a memorandum of understanding on strengthening the partnership for global hunger and development, and trained 1,547 agricultural technology and management personnel for Asian and African countries throughout the year, promoting a large number of practical agricultural technologies in China. And management experience." Yan Pengfei said.

With the increasing "soft power" of China's agriculture, the achievements of agricultural development have been recognized by the international community. In 2015, China was awarded a certificate to complete the World Food Summit goals, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization completed a $50 million General Agreement on Trust Fund Cooperation, in the G20, APEC, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, FAO, World Food Important platforms such as the Planning Department have played an active role.

(Original title: China's agricultural shining world stage)