China's beef export is expected to achieve substantial growth

Introduction: China is a big beef producer, ranking third in the world at present, only next to the United States and Brazil At the same time, China is also a small beef trading country At present, the beef export volume is only 0.3% of the domestic beef production, accounting for only 0.3% of the world beef trade share This shows that there is great potential to develop beef export in China, but if we want to turn the potential into the reality of increasing export, we must solve the problem of beef quality and cattle disease In the past 10 years, China's beef production has grown rapidly, from 1.256 million tons in 1990 to 5.328 million tons in 2000, an increase of 3.2 times Over the same period, the total output of beef in the world increased from 55.7 million tons to 59.49 million tons, an increase of 6.8% China's beef production accounted for 9% of the world's total production in 2000, up from 2.3% in 1990 Since the 1990s, the export volume of beef in China has gradually declined In 1991, the export volume of all kinds of beef was 196000 tons, and in 2000, it was 34000 tons; the export volume decreased from 313 million US dollars to 64 million US dollars In terms of export structure, fresh, cold and frozen beef and beef products account for 98% of the total beef exports, while dry, smoked, pickled beef and beef offal have been few Chinese beef is mainly exported to Russia, Middle East countries and Hong Kong Before the 1980s, China seldom imported beef In 1990, China only imported 425 tons of various kinds of beef In 2000, it increased to 6355 tons, 14 times higher than in 1990 In the import, China mainly imports all kinds of cattle offal In 2000, 32000 tons of cattle offal were imported, accounting for 83% of the total beef import in that year In the short term after China's accession to the WTO, Chinese beef producers face the fierce competition of cheap beef from developed countries, which is mainly reflected in the fact that the export of live beef and beef is difficult to increase substantially in the short term Although China's live cattle and beef have a certain price advantage in the world, on the one hand, the fiber content of China's beef is higher than that of western countries, and the proportion of high-quality beef available for export is small On the other hand, China's beef industry is not fully prepared for cattle sources, especially due to the existence of veterinary management system and animal health standards Many problems are difficult to be solved at the moment, which reduces the international trust of China's beef export At present, although the construction of non regulated epidemic areas and non pollution and organic meat projects in the agricultural sector are under construction, they are difficult to work in the short term Moreover, with China's accession to the WTO, the import tariff of beef and beef offal will gradually decrease, the gap between domestic and foreign beef prices will gradually narrow, and the price advantage of domestic beef in the domestic market will gradually decrease At the same time, with the influx of foreign livestock products, the risk of the introduction of alien diseases is likely to increase But in the medium and long term, China is a big beef producer As long as the beef quality problem and cattle disease problem are effectively solved, China's beef export is expected to achieve a large growth.