The Development of Grain Markets in Big Agricultural Provinces

Conférence de Zhang Xinyuan, invitée par Xavier Paulès (CECMC) dans le cadre du projet Global history collaborative qui comprend un échange entre l’EHESS et l’Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Toyo bunka) de l’Université de Tokyo.

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Mathieu Arnoux, Maurice Aymard, Jean-Yves Grenier, Gilles Postel-Vinay et Alessandro Stanziani, Critique de l’économie historique. La question des ressources

 This paper aims to reveal the developing mechanism of the grain markets in Jilin and Heilongjiang after the 1990s by focusing analysis on the corn market and the dry bean market. This paper examines changes in agricultural policies, production, domestic marketing channels and international trade. Three conclusions can be made from the analysis here:

1. Efficiency of the grain markets in “Big Agricultural Provinces” have been improved by local traders activities, and this contributed greatly to the recent increase of China’s grain production;
2. policies to foster grain markets are effective only when both peasants and local traders are benefited from grain trade;
3. the growth of grain markets in “Big Agricultural Provinces” contributed to the growth of local grain processing industry and livestock industry. It also brought structural changes in related industries in coastal provinces and changes in China’s international grain trade.

Date

Lundi 22 février de 17h à 20h

Lieu

EHESS (salle 1) – 105, boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris

Jacqueline Nivard

Jacqueline Nivard, Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine

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