Study On The Aquatic Product Market In China

Land resources shrinks quickly as the population exploration and economic development. The exploitation and utilization of the sea waters has been the necessary choice to humanbeing. As a country with short agricultural land' resources and abundant fishery resources, aquatic product has great meaning to China. So has the economic study on aquatic product. Under this background, the thesis uses quantitative and qualitative method to study the aquatic product market in China positively. The thesis has analyzed China aquatic product market through its production supply, consumption demand, international trade, price mechanism, market circulation and market policies. The history of China aquatic production shows its production is affected deeply by economic policies and economic system. From 1980s, the total production is increasing quickly, its structure is becoming more and more affair. China has become the biggest fishery country in the world. Limited by natural conditions and traditional customs, the production shows geographical characteristics. Because of cost and others factors, the comparative efficiency is not totally satisfied in recent years. The analysis of aquatic resources , exploiting and producing levels shows that the aquatic production has vast development area. But there are also existing many limited factors, the aquatic production will develop in a constantly low speed. The production development affects the consumption and demand greatly. China aquatic product supply has become total surplus. There are also geographical, structural and season' s unbalance. There are rural-urban and geographical differences in consumption level. The average consumption level is low. So is the level in the rural and the main-western areas in special. Instantaneously, the consumption demand is elastic to aquatic product prices. The potentiality of the consumption demand is great. The total consumption demand will reach 38mt. in 2010. The development of the aquatic product international trade is behind of the aquatic production. The trade structure of area and mode is not still affair. After entering WTO, China will exploit the advantages of the aquatic production to develop the international trade. But at the same time, there are also some negative affects. Generally speaking, aquatic product prices have been lower than meat and egg's. It is not until the market-oriented innovation in aquatic product market that its prices are becoming affair. The international trade prices are consistent with the international markets ' There are stated-owned enterprises, collective and cooperative enterprises and individual ones in the China aquatic product circulation. The storation, transportation and processing ability has met a high standard. But there are also some problems to be solved. 'he thesis also analyzed the aquatic product market policies in different periods. The market policies must be consist with the economic laws and objective historical background . Based on the whole-sided analysis, the thesis put forward following countermeasures: First, to increase the science and technology content of the aquatic product to progress its stable increment. Second, to adjust the ocean fishery structure and aquaculture structure. Third, extant the processing scale, upgrade the total level of the processing industry. Forth, to make progress in the building of aquatic product market system .