According to a recent report from the Ministry of Commerce, Japan will formally implement the "Affirmative Listing System for Residual Agricultural Chemicals in Foods" from May 2006. The system has clearly set up nearly 50,000 tentative standards for 734 pesticides, veterinary drugs, and feed additives that may appear in imported foods and agricultural products, and drastically raised the threshold for foreign countries to export agricultural products to Japan. In addition, the EU will also begin implementing new food and feed safety regulations in January 2006. This means that China's agricultural products exported to the EU in the future will not only comply with EU food safety standards, but also enlarge the food safety management chain. Relevant statistics show that Japan and the EU are the first and second largest export markets for China's agricultural products, which together account for 43.3% of China's total exports of agricultural products. Japan is particularly important for China’s agricultural exports. In 2004, China’s total value of agricultural exports to Japan was as high as US$6.76 billion, accounting for about one-third of China’s total exports of agricultural products. At the same time, China’s agricultural export enterprises, which are mainly marketed by Japan and the European Union, accounted for 38% and 27% of the total number of agricultural export enterprises respectively. Therefore, the readjustment of this text and the EU regulations will undoubtedly have a significant impact on our country.
According to industry insiders, the new regulations will involve the remnants of about 40,000 food and agricultural chemicals. Domestic opinion generally believes that as the first and second largest export markets for Chinese agricultural products, the implementation of the new Japanese and EU regulations will have a major impact on China's agricultural exports, and it will cause a chain reaction. The first and foremost is China's agricultural food chemical industry.
The developed countries have set green thresholds. From the perspective of protecting the environment and the human health of the entire planet, it should be a kind of sentiment after paying a huge price for development. It is a progress of human civilization. The only thing we feel is lost is that they have strong powers and have seized the right to make rules, and for our country that is still under development, not only will it not enjoy the protection of these green thresholds, but it will affect itself. Trade exports. It can be expected that there will be a considerable number of agricultural chemicals, such as fertilizers, pesticides, preservatives, additives and other products will be affected, and even thus withdraw from the agricultural industry. A group of chemical companies is likely to be converted or even closed down, and a group of workers may lose their jobs. Humanity is progressing in this cruel survival of the fittest.
But we must face this challenge. Since the green economy has become the trend of the world's economic development, our choice can only adapt to the trend. From another perspective, the green threshold not only poses challenges for China's agricultural food chemical industry, but also provides a new standard for the industry. The chemical industry should have this ideological preparation: The green threshold is likely to refresh the national standards of China's chemical industry on a large scale. For example, pesticides have always been said that low-toxicity and low-residue pesticides are the inevitable trend. In the end, how low should the standards be considered? Now it is equal to the specific standards for the product structure adjustment of pesticide companies.
The green threshold will also promote the independent innovation of China's chemical companies. However, all countries that have the right to say green thresholds also have high-tech that can cross the green threshold. Only these people's high technology will not easily give us. While setting aside a green threshold, we have high-tech; while our companies also want to cross the green threshold to compete for the market, they lack the technology of 'cross-border'. In this case, chemical companies have only one way to go: independent innovation and mastering technology that can truly dominate their own destiny. Indeed, in front of the green threshold, domestic chemical companies have few opportunities to choose. There is only one way to go, and that is the only way to survive and develop – to meet challenges and improve competitiveness.
According to industry insiders, the new regulations will involve the remnants of about 40,000 food and agricultural chemicals. Domestic opinion generally believes that as the first and second largest export markets for Chinese agricultural products, the implementation of the new Japanese and EU regulations will have a major impact on China's agricultural exports, and it will cause a chain reaction. The first and foremost is China's agricultural food chemical industry.
The developed countries have set green thresholds. From the perspective of protecting the environment and the human health of the entire planet, it should be a kind of sentiment after paying a huge price for development. It is a progress of human civilization. The only thing we feel is lost is that they have strong powers and have seized the right to make rules, and for our country that is still under development, not only will it not enjoy the protection of these green thresholds, but it will affect itself. Trade exports. It can be expected that there will be a considerable number of agricultural chemicals, such as fertilizers, pesticides, preservatives, additives and other products will be affected, and even thus withdraw from the agricultural industry. A group of chemical companies is likely to be converted or even closed down, and a group of workers may lose their jobs. Humanity is progressing in this cruel survival of the fittest.
But we must face this challenge. Since the green economy has become the trend of the world's economic development, our choice can only adapt to the trend. From another perspective, the green threshold not only poses challenges for China's agricultural food chemical industry, but also provides a new standard for the industry. The chemical industry should have this ideological preparation: The green threshold is likely to refresh the national standards of China's chemical industry on a large scale. For example, pesticides have always been said that low-toxicity and low-residue pesticides are the inevitable trend. In the end, how low should the standards be considered? Now it is equal to the specific standards for the product structure adjustment of pesticide companies.
The green threshold will also promote the independent innovation of China's chemical companies. However, all countries that have the right to say green thresholds also have high-tech that can cross the green threshold. Only these people's high technology will not easily give us. While setting aside a green threshold, we have high-tech; while our companies also want to cross the green threshold to compete for the market, they lack the technology of 'cross-border'. In this case, chemical companies have only one way to go: independent innovation and mastering technology that can truly dominate their own destiny. Indeed, in front of the green threshold, domestic chemical companies have few opportunities to choose. There is only one way to go, and that is the only way to survive and develop – to meet challenges and improve competitiveness.