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Chinese Sericulture Industry Study On Sustainable Development

Posted on:2013-02-22Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:T ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119330374971286Subject:Special economic animal breeding
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Sericulture, a traditional industry in China with the history of5000years, has the resource-advantage and is highly competitive in international trades. Considering its long industrial chain (mulberry planting, sericulture, silk reeling, silk weaving, and clothing) and wide coverage (farming, silkworm breeding and processing industry), sericulture plays an important role in agricultural restructuring, peasant's income increase. Meanwhile, sericulture in China is a typical export-oriented industry with great importance in foreign trade.In this thesis, dialectical materialism and historical materialism is used as the base of theory. And all the discussion is made under the historical background of "the twelfth five-year" plan, the western development drive, and "east-to-west sericulture diversion" strategic adjustment. Based on the competitive analysis of the history, current situation and development process of the sericulture industry in China, main problems and constraints in the development of sericulture industry have been addressed and investigated with the strategy of theory combining with practice and comparative analytical method and comprehensive study. And the industrial competitiveness in the world has been analyzed as well. Further more, the support system of Chinese sericulture industry has been illustrated according to its own characteristics and the perspective of sustainable development. And the challenges and opportunities confronted by the development of Chinese sericulture industry have been analyzed by using the local representative industrial cases. Then, the development orientation of Chinese sericulture under new situation has been sought in terms of the economic development of our country and market changes at home and abroad. Finally, the thoughts and strategies and measures of sericulture development in China have been presented to promote the healthy and stable growth of sericulture industry. Six conclusions have been made in this thesis, which are as follows:1.Gradually building cocoon production bases with high starting point and steady quality. Since reform and opening up in China, series changes of the main silk producing areas have been made, the areas move to the less developed central and western regions guided by the "east-to-west sericulture diversion" and the western development drive. At the same time, new features appeared and new industrial problems occurred as well. Therefore, the guidance of the national policy should be made to avoid low-level redundant development, and financial support should focus on building a number of demonstrable sericulture production bases, which have high level management of mulberry field, better infrastructure of silkworm rearing, better technology promotion system and tons of fine quality dried cocoon production capacity. In this case, cocoon market would be stabilized and price volatility would be avoided.2.Since1970's, the production of Chinese cocoon filament has become the number one in the world. However, superpower position has never been established due to lack international competitiveness of the end products. Therefore, industrial structure should be adjusted to switch core competency from quantity to quality. At the same time, corresponding national measures should be made to guide the international prices of silk and its products to prevent vicious competition and avoid big ups and downs of sericulture production.3.Straightening out relations within the administrative system of Sericulture and Silk Textile Industry, promoting coordinated development of various aspects in the industrial chain. Sericulture industry is composed of mulberry cultivation, silkworm rearing, cocoon purchase, silk reeling, silk products development, and many other aspects, which belongs to separate departments of agricultural industrial&commercial trading. Therefore the contradictions between planned economy and the market economy and between different industrial sectors are restricting the development of sericulture industry. On the basis of past work, national callus silk coordination bodies should strengthen the construction of cocoon and silk industry laws and regulations and other systems, try to stabilize the civil market and domestic silk prices, so as to avoid disorderly competition in the export market, promote a major technological innovation and brand strategy, consolidate industry development foundation, ultimately direct the development of the industry.4.Strengthening science and technology innovation, establishing a new silkworm rearing technology management system with labor-saving characteristics. With speeding up the construction of towns, adjustment of rural economics structure has been deepened, and more and more farmers have been going out to work. In addition, along with the progress of light cultivation technique of bulk farm-products, the competitive strength of sericulture is challenged in many aspects. Transition from advantages to disadvantages of remuneration of land area of one unit from planting mulberry and breeding silkworm gradually appeared. Even face predicament of lack of successors. In view of this, strengthening science and technology innovation is impending. A new silkworm rearing technology management system with labor-saving characteristics should be established as soon as possible. Which covers many aspects of technology, equipment and management, from simple installations to mechanization equipment, from the common incubation, collective rearing for young silkworm to all aspects of the intensive operation.5.Extending comprehensive utilization of mulberry cocoon and silk resources, developing non-silk industry. Research of comprehensive utilization of Mulberry cocoon and silk resources has made a number of achievements. For example, mulberry cultivation of edible fungi, extract of medicinal raw material from the silkworm excrement, mulberry fruit drink and so on have stepped into the industrialization. Moreover, study on application of silk fibroin and sericin also made significant progress. Mulberry cocoon and silk resources are being used not only in the traditional silk industry, but into multiple non-silk industries as well. This is a very important developing state to increase utilization of Mulberry cocoon and silk resources, to increase land planted mulberry output and silkworm farmers' income, and to increase the added value of cocoon and silk industry as a whole.
Keywords/Search Tags:China, Sericulture, development
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