The Agro-food Processing Sector in China
Subtitle: Developments and Policy Challenges
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: China in the global economy; China in the Global Economy
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9789164180292
Subjects: Agriculture and Food; Economics
Description: China’s food processing sector has arrived at a decisive stage. While primary agriculture has continued to expand at an astounding pace and final consumers have experienced an extended period of rapid income growth, progress at the intermediary stage, the agro-processing sector, has remained limited. Today, a growing need to catch up with these developments has become manifest, but a number of challenges have emerged simultaneously. They include the need to adjust to increasingly diversified consumer demands, to improve the quality and nutritional content of foods, to introduce new food products, to shift to more sophisticated processing methods, to adopt innovative packaging methods, and to comply with new labelling requirements. These developments give rise to a number of questions. What do these changes mean for China’s food processors? Is China’s agriculture adequately prepared for these changes? How can farmers take advantage of these changes? What structural adjustments are needed to meet the challenges arising from the changes in domestic and international food markets? The papers in this Proceedings document try to answer these and many other important questions revolving around changes in, and challenges for, China’s agro-processing sector.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Executive Summary; title: Opening Statement by Bruce Ross; title: Session One: Taking Stock of Past Developments: Important Trends and the Role of the Agro-Food Processing Industry in China and OECD Countries; title: Development and Policy Option for China's Agro-Processing Sector by DU Ying; title: Contemporary Trends and Developments in the Agro-Processing Sector in Industrialised Countries by Dennis R. Henderson; title: Current Situation and Prospects for the Agricultural Production and Market in China by CHEN Xiwen; title: Medium-Term Prospects for China's Agricultural Markets and Trade by Loek Boonekamp; title: Session Two: The Policy Framwork: Options and Limitations for Industrial Policies and the Legal Framework for the Agro-Processing Industry; title: Structural Developments and Policies in Agricultural Processing in OECD Countries by Dermot Hayes; title: Present Situation, Policy, and Forecast for China's Food Industry Development by HUANG Shengmin; title: The Role of Grades and Standards - A Case Study: The Role of the USDA Been Grading PRogramme in the Marketing of Beef by John VanDyke; title: What Do Multilateral Trade Agreements Mean for Trade in Processed Food Markets and China's Agro-Processing Industry? by Kathryn McKinley; title: Current State and Export Policies for China's Agro-Processing Products by KIU Guosheng; title: FDI in the Agro-Processing Sector in China by LU Mai; title: Regional Distribution and Regional Policies for China's Farming Industry by TANG Renjian; title: Current Situation of the AGro-Processing Industry and the Developing Strategies and Measures in the Future Hunan Province of China by SHAN Yang; title: Session Three: Structural Changes in the Agro-Food Processing Industry; title: Structural Changes in the Pork Production and Processing Industry of the United States and Other OECD Countries: Major Trends and Issues by Marvin Hayenga; title: Fruit and Vegetable Processing in Hungary by Peter Szilagyi; title: Current Situation, Issues, and Prospects for the Livesotck Processing Industry in China by JIA Youling; title: World Market Trends for Soybean Products by Phillip Laney; title: China's timer Processing Industry: Current Situationj, Problems,a nd Policies by CHEN Genchang; title: China's Leather Industry: The Status of Progress and its Prospects by ZHANG Shuhua; title: Session Four: Organizational System of the Agro-Processing Industry; title: The Development of the Agro-Processing Industry and Integrated Agricultural Management in China: Organizational Pattern and Structural Changes by HAN Jun; title: An Overview of the Canadian Agri-Food System: A Case Study Involving the Canadian Hog-Port Sector by Brian Rattray; title: Determinants of Commercial Viability of Private Enterprises in the OECD Food Processing Sector by Nor Coquillard; title: Role and Policy Options of "Township and Village Enterprises" (TVEs) in the Development of China's Agro-Processing Industry by JIANG Yongtao; title: To Save or Limit the Rural Industry: An Analysis of Privatisation and Efficiency in China by Scott Rozelle; title: Session Five: The Outlook - Prospects for the Agro-Processing Industry; title: The Market Supply and Demand Prospects and Policy Making of China's Agro-Processing Industry by MA Xiaohe; title: Trends and Outlook for the Agro-Processing Sector by Bruce Traill; title: Annex; title: -Programme; title: List of Participants