Foot-and-mouth disease challenges meat exports and will not affect China

Introduction: the FMD epidemic in some areas of China is likely to make the newly recovered meat export face severe challenges again Some people believe that although the amount of beef exported by China is not large, its impact is far beyond the figure In response, officials from the Ministry of Commerce said in an interview with this newspaper: it is too early to estimate the loss of FMD on meat exports Due to various import restrictions, the situation of China's meat export has been not optimistic, and only in recent two years has the momentum of recovery growth begun, but this momentum is likely to change Cao xumin, President of China Chamber of Commerce for import and export of food, soil and livestock, told reporters that although the epidemic was only sporadic and appeared in some areas, due to the strong infectivity of foot-and-mouth disease, foreign countries may also make decisions affecting China's meat export "The most fundamental reason why foot-and-mouth disease is concerned by all countries is not that the epidemic can cause rapid death of livestock, but that it can cause a sharp decline in livestock production, coupled with its strong infectivity, which will bring a devastating blow to the relevant meat market in a country." Professor Nan Qingxian, School of food engineering and food safety, China Agricultural University, said According to Cao xumin, the Middle East is a promising market for China's live animal export Three years ago (2002), the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, and the chamber of Commerce for import and export of food, soil and livestock did a lot of work Until 2004, the Middle East countries resumed importing Chinese live sheep "The outbreak will to a certain extent affect the hard to build market." Cao xumin was worried about it Statistics from the agricultural sector show that in the first quarter of this year, China's export of cattle products reached US $34.3133 million, a year-on-year increase of 58.71% It is understood that China's beef is mainly sold to Hong Kong, Jordan, Kuwait and other places The main export provinces of beef are Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Shandong and Liaoning, accounting for 80.69% of the total export volume of China In addition, processed beef is mainly sold to Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong Hebei, Shandong, Guangdong, Tianjin and Jiangsu are the top five provinces (cities) in the export of processed beef, with a total export volume of 16.4276 million US dollars, accounting for 89.02% of the total export of processed beef After learning about the epidemic, China Chamber of Commerce for import and export of food, soil and livestock immediately notified more than 100 member enterprises all over the country According to Cao xumin, more than 100 member enterprises are export-oriented enterprises In his view, member enterprises have established a strict quarantine and epidemic prevention system for many years, and strictly control product quality In spite of this, after the outbreak, the chamber of commerce requires member enterprises to attach great importance to the incident, carry out more strict quarantine and epidemic prevention, and ensure export safety "At present, there is no big gap between our country and developed countries in hardware construction," Professor Nan Qingxian, School of food engineering and food safety, China Agricultural University, told reporters In recent years, the emergency mechanism has been gradually improved, but by comparison, China needs to face a special situation in dealing with such matters This special situation is that "China's animal husbandry is relatively scattered, which is a test put forward by our government." Nanqingxian said that compared with developed countries with relatively concentrated animal husbandry, they will be relatively easy to deal with this situation In addition, the implementation of relevant measures is also one of the challenges to be faced "There is a certain influence." But the chamber will try its best to minimize the losses, Cao said According to Cao xumin, in 2004, China's meat exports reached nearly 2 billion US dollars "Although the number is small, the market has a great influence." That's what the Chinese Meat Association said "In the short term, it may have an impact on China's economy, but in the long term, it will not have a great impact on China's economy." Lin Yin, a professor at the Capital University of economics and trade, said that the impact of the incident on China's economy depends on two factors: one is the product structure of China's exports, and the other is the region of exports In his view, if the export region is one with more trade frictions with China, the other side will suffer a lot from using this incident as an article In addition, the export loss of animals and products is larger "Although China relies heavily on foreign trade, there is no need to make major adjustments to specific industries." Wang Cheng, director of the Macroeconomic Research Office of the Economic Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that compared with the SARS in China in 2003, both the harm and the negative impact on the economy were much smaller, and the SARS did not affect the overall economic situation of China Source: First Financial Daily