入世五年来的中国农产品贸易

China＇s Agro-product Trade in Five Years Since Its Entry to WTO

加入世贸组织为中国农产品贸易的发展带来了难得的机遇，开辟了更加广阔的空间。经济全球化进程的加快客观上要求资源和生产要素在全球范围流动和重组，这不仅为我们引进国外品种、资金、技术及先进的管理经验，促进我国农业的科技进步和产业升级创造了有利条件，而且为发挥比较优势，提高农产品国际竞争力，扩大农产晶出口，加快我国农产晶市场准入标准与国际接轨，提高农产晶的标准化水平，创造了有利条件，从而为我国农业进一步开拓国外市场和利用境外资源开辟了广阔的空间。五年来，广大农产晶加工出口企业不失时机地抓住了“入世”带来的机遇，积极应对“入世”带来的挑战，农产品出口与入世前相比发生了“质”的改变，保持了持续增长的可喜局面，出口的增长在带动农村就业、增加农民收入、优化农业产业结构方面也发挥了重要作用。农产品进口更是呈现高速增长的局面。

China＇s entry to WTO has been bringing very nice op portunities of development to China, and opening up more space for development. In the five years afterthe entry to WTO, numerous Chinese agro-product processors and exporters have taken the opportunities brought by the entry to WTO, and actively cope with the challenges resulting from the entry. Therefore, our agro-product export has undergone an ＂essential＇change compared with the situation before the entry to WTO. Concretely speaking, in the past five years our agro-product export has rapidly developed, the structure of exported agro-products has had gratifying changes, export bodies have fundamentally been transformed, export patterns has altered, sense of exporters for food hygiene and safety has been remarkably raised, the ability to cope with foreign technical barriers has been strengthened, export markets have been gradually diversified, trade patterns have been transformed, processing trade has rapidly expanded, and import of agro-products has increased at high speed. The development of agro-product export has played an important role in promoting employment in rural areas, increasing farmers＇ income and improving agricultural structure.