The strategic layout of US agricultural products enters Shenyang, the largest granary in China to send a warning.

Shenyang, China Daily: on Sept. 17, the Agricultural Trade Office set up by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the northeastern central city of Shenyang unveiled its fifth office in China after Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu. At this point, the strategic layout of US agricultural products to China has entered the core granary of China.

According to a press release provided by the US Consulate General in Shenyang, the Shenyang Agricultural Trade Office aims to help promote the sale of US agricultural, fishery and forestry products in the Northeast.

Jim Miller, USDA's undersecretary of Agriculture, also made no secret of his Northeast ambitions, saying: "the opening of a fifth trade office in Chinese mainland marks USDA's expansion into the center of the Northeast. As one of China's international trade centers, Shenyang provides ample opportunities for US agricultural exports. "

Northeast China is the main producing area of soybean, corn and japonica rice in China, and it is one of the largest granaries in China. The establishment of an office by the United States Department of Agriculture here undoubtedly represents the attempt of the United States to further strengthen its occupation of China's agricultural market.

Earlier, some experts have expressed concern about this. With its absolute technological advantage in the field of genetically modified food, the United States has begun to win a dominant position in the world grain market. Once the genetically modified grain varieties of the United States are widely promoted around the world, the grain varieties cultivated in other countries are likely to be quickly squeezed out of the market, which lays a solid foundation for the United States to control the world food supply from the source.

One of the most suitable crops to grow in Northeast China is soybeans. Imports of American agricultural products, especially soybeans, may have a great impact on agriculture in Northeast China and bring disastrous consequences to local farmers.

"he kept saying that the wolf was coming, but this time they really came into the house. As long as a trade office is set up, genetically modified agricultural products will come in soon, "said Li Xiaobo, an expert on international trade at Shenyang Agricultural University. Li said that northeast China is an untapped potential market for the United States, and with the strengthening of opening up in northeast China, a large number of US agricultural products are bound to pour in, including "dangerous food" such as "genetically modified soybeans".

Prior to this, with the opening of China's agricultural market to the United States, American genetically modified agricultural products, such as soybeans and corn, flooded in, which controlled the Chinese market in just a few years. According to the China Food, Native and Animal Import and Export Association, China imported 42.552 million tons of soybeans in 2009, of which 21.809 million tons were imported from the United States, accounting for 51.3 percent of the total imports.

A large number of soybean processing companies in Heilongjiang Province, China's main non-GM soybean producing region, have stopped production because the price of imported soybeans is too low, CCTV reported in March.

In addition, these GM soybeans imported from the United States have not undergone credible health trials at all, so they have been boycotted by many international organizations. Li Xiaobo is worried that once imported GM agricultural products occupy the market, it will not only threaten people's health, but also endanger the interests and survival of local farmers.

"I heard that American 'peers' have high government subsidies, and if their products come in, we must be able to compete," said Chen, a farmer in Liaozhong County, Shenyang.

"when Americans see business opportunities, we should see the warning," Li Xiaobo said.