According to Xinhua News Agency, on April 6th, China and France signed a series of bilateral cooperation documents covering many fields. In addition to the traditional "old three" aerospace, high-speed rail and nuclear energy, it also involves the fields of culture, sustainable development and agricultural food.
In recent years, Sino-French trade cooperation has rapidly warmed up. The total trade volume increased from $60 billion in 20 18 to $80 billion in 202 1 year, and exceeded $100 billion last year. With this visit to China, Sino-French trade cooperation will be further deepened.
Among them, in the traditional agricultural cooperation, China mainly imports many products, including wheat, pork and so on. It is not easy to mention the export of French pork products to China.
As we all know, China is a big consumer of pork, with an annual consumption of more than 50 million tons, ranking first in the world. Although China is also a big producer of pork, due to the high cost of raising pigs locally, it imports a certain amount of pork as a supplement every year.
Especially in 20 18, after the domestic pig production capacity plummeted, the supply continued to be tight, so the import of pork also showed an obvious upward trend. However, with the recovery of domestic production capacity, pork imports also fell.
For example, in 20021year, China's pork imports decreased slightly to 37 1 10,000 tons, down 15.5% year-on-year. By 2022, it will drop to1760,000 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 52.6%.
Among the sources of imported pork, Europe accounts for the largest proportion, and Spain has always occupied the first place in terms of countries.
For example, the top three sources of imported pork in 20021year were Spain, Brazil and the United States, among which the quantity imported from Spain reached/kloc-0.09 million tons, accounting for 30.7% of the total import volume.
China's pork market is so huge that it has naturally become the target of many countries' efforts. France has been actively promoting cooperation and striving to increase the export of pork products to China.
In 20021year, China and France signed relevant agreements, and French pork products can be exported to China by regions.
Generally speaking, when the products of a certain importing country are infected, China usually stops the export of such products in order to prevent food safety. However, after the signing of this agreement, it means that if pork infection breaks out in France, it will be divided into regions to implement import restrictions. As long as other regions are not affected, pork from other parts of France can continue to be exported to China.
This policy is undoubtedly a great benefit to the pork industry in France, and this way of sub-regional export has also created a precedent for the EU's pork export trade with China.
The French visit to China has once again promoted this cooperation. According to French media, in the new cooperation agreement, the French pork industry has obtained a new license of 15, and will be able to export more products to China.
This means that not only pork, but also more pork products are expected to enter the China market.
Previously, the French pork cooked food industry once said that it was eager to enter the China market, expecting China consumers who love pork to like French cuisine. As a result, it has also begun to actively promote cooperation in this area. In contrast, Spain has already seized the market.
Therefore, the deep cooperation between the two countries means that the French pork industry will fully attack the China market.
However, there are some concerns in the domestic market, because the current domestic pig production capacity has exceeded the normal quantity, and the pig price continues to be low, and farmers continue to lose money. With the development of pork import trade, will the domestic market be under pressure again?
Judging from the quantity of pork imported from China in recent years, compared with the huge supply and consumption, the imported quantity accounts for a small proportion.
Moreover, domestic consumption is mainly fresh meat, while imported meat is mainly frozen meat, which rarely flows into the consumer market, and 80% is purchased by meat products enterprises or processing plants.
In addition, it's not just the French who are eyeing the meat market in China. In the list published by Brazil during its previous visit to China, a quarter of them are representatives of meat enterprises. With the opening of Brazil's visit to China, this will be another big cooperation.