关键词: 粳米, 影响因素, 贸易, 贸易竞争力指数, 中国, 日本, 韩国

Abstract:

After joining the World Trade Organization （WTO）, China's grain import and export trade was much negatively affected. Compared with the trade of corn, soybeans, wheat and other crops, the trade of rice gets the minimum impact, and the competitiveness of japonica rice even gets enhanced. With the improvement of living standards, people's demand for high-quality japonica rice is increasing, as well as the rice trade is also increasing in the international market, and Japan and South Korea are major importers of japonica rice. Northeast China is one of the Chinese major japonica rice producing bases, whose area is nearly 2.67 million hectares, accounting for nearly half of the national japonica rice. It’s well known that Northeast China, Japan and Korea are main consumer markets as well as the major producers of japonica rice. The production and consumption of japonica rice are always undergoing direct intervene and key control from their government. This paper quantitatively analyzed the international competitiveness of japonica rice over Northeast China, Japan and Korea, which is based on the contrast of current situation in above regions by using the index of trade competitiveness. Finally, according to the main factors affecting the international competitiveness of japonica rice, some suggestions are put forward to enhance the international competitiveness of japonica rice in Northeast China.

Key words: japonica rice, influencing factor, trade, trade competitiveness index, China, Japan, Korea