China's agricultural advantages may be made in China.

Chinese agriculture has its own characteristics, and in the new market environment, it will be able to give full play to its strengths and circumvent its weaknesses and further highlight its advantages. the slightly optimistic expectation is that it will take over made in China and become a new engine for China's rapid economic growth.

Thirty years ago, China's manufacturing industry collectively considered the question of where our advantages are and how we can have our own place in the international market. Who would have thought that 30 years later, made in China will serve the world and be the first engine of China's economic take-off.

Traditional wisdom

"China has a great deal of experience in agriculture and food security for all developing countries in the world to learn from." Graziano, director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, said earlier this month.

In the background, FAO and the Government of China announced a number of plans aimed at strengthening their partnership in the field of South-South cooperation.

Graziano summarized and introduced a traditional farming system in Zhejiang, that is, rice and fish farming. Rice provides protection and organic food for fish. In turn, fish can loosen the soil, increase crop nutrients and oxygen content, and feed on insects and weeds that harm rice crops. This rice-fish symbiosis system has existed for a thousand years and has been designated by FAO as an important global agricultural cultural heritage system (GIAHS).

Modern science and technology

Henan Daily reported that the excellent leek variety "Jiuxianzi" bred by the Leek Research Institute in Fugou County, Henan Province, was carried by the long March 2d carrier rocket on the first microgravity scientific practice satellite, the "Shi 10" satellite, at the Jiuquan Satellite launch Base in Gansu Province.

The protagonist behind the news is 46-year-old Liu Shunde, who established Henan Fugou County Leek Research Institute, Fugou County Lvjiu Organic Leek planting Professional Cooperative and Henan Lvjiu Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. After 26 years of professional accumulation, its base is not only the first organic leek planting base in Henan Province, but also leek seeds are sold all over the country and exported to 6 countries and regions in Southeast Asia.

This is a good case. China's agricultural production gradually shows its competitive advantage under the background of domestic market feeding, external technical environment support, as well as its own accumulation and mechanism transformation.

Comparative advantage.

The comparative advantage varieties of American agricultural products are soybean, corn and cotton. The operation scale is large, the production efficiency is high, the price advantage is remarkable.

At the same time, China's agriculture also has its own advantages in the international market. In 2015, the exports of vegetables, fruits and aquatic products reached 13.3 billion US dollars, 6.9 billion US dollars and 20.3 billion US dollars respectively, accounting for 57.3 percent of the total agricultural exports. The surplus is 12.7 billion US dollars, 1 billion US dollars and 11.4 billion US dollars respectively.

As for tea, another major export product, it is of course a labor-intensive product, but now it is relatively difficult to raise labor. Well, last month, the Department of Agriculture of Zhejiang Province issued the Action Plan for the replacement of machines in the Field of Agriculture (2016-2018). Among them, 50,000 sets (sets) of tea production and processing machinery are popularized, and tea production and processing are basically mechanized, of which the mechanization rate of tea garden pruning and bulk tea picking is more than 90%, and the mechanization rate of famous tea processing is more than 95%.

Last year, China imported 81.69 million tons of soybeans. Liao Xiyuan, director of the Science, Technology and Education Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said, "the import volume in 2015 is equivalent to that our country needs 670 million mu of arable land to produce. If it is all produced domestically, it is unthinkable and will definitely crowd out other crops." Therefore, in order to meet the domestic soybean consumption demand, while developing domestic production, we should also rely on imports to make up for it. "

But domestic soybeans still have advantages, which are reflected in the production of traditional soybean products and condiments. Therefore, in the "guidance on promoting the Development of Soybean production" issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, it is proposed that the area of soybean will reach 140 million mu by 2020, an increase of 40 million mu over the current.

The comparative advantage of the production of agricultural products in China is that it involves a large number of labor force, intensive cultivation and medium-tech agricultural products.

Agricultural products e-commerce

One of the great advantages of Chinese agriculture now, or potential advantage, is the leading e-commerce of agricultural products.

In the implementation opinions of the General Office of the Liaoning Provincial people's Government on promoting the accelerated development of rural e-commerce, the goal is that by 2020, the rate of rural villages covered by e-commerce applications in the province will reach 100%. Cultivate a number of rural e-commerce demonstration counties (cities), townships (towns), villages and enterprises that play a typical leading role.

As far as the city-end consumer market is concerned, all kinds of fresh e-commerce rise one after another, and eventually there will be market winners to sort out the supply chain. Of course, for the international market, B2B is more important. With the rapid popularity of mobile Internet in China's rural areas and the deepening of user applications, more and more farmers keep in touch with customers, provide prices, communicate business and conclude transactions through APP.

Summary:

The e-commerce of agricultural products has played a role as a media, allowing the outside world to understand the comparative advantages of China's agriculture at once. Chinese agriculture has its own characteristics. In the new market environment, it will be able to enhance its strengths and circumvent its weaknesses and further highlight its advantages. The slightly optimistic expectation is that it will take over made in China and become a new engine for China's economy to continue to grow at a high speed.