ABSTRACT
Agriculture was one of the toughest issues that negotiations had to deal with as China was preparing to enter the WTO. Expectations were that this industry would feel the greatest impact from opening up to the outside. Over the past ten years, a great deal of research has been done on what actually happened to Chinese agriculture as trade liberalized. Scholars from both inside and outside China have looked closely at the subject (Zhang Xiaoshan and Cui Hongzhi, 2002; Huang Jiqun and Scott Rozelle, 2002; Zhong Funing, 2003; Ke Bingsheng, 2005; Cheng Guoqiang, 2005; Anderson Kym, 2010; Niu Dun, 2011). This chapter reviews and evaluates the past ten years and their impact on Chinese agriculture for the lessons that can be learned from how the country dealt with internationalization of agriculture. It then presents an initial strategic line of thought and policy options for how to increase opening to the outside under the current new conditions.
