Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 4.2
Rural-urban income disparity, 1980 and 2000 (yuan in
current prces)
1980
2000
Urban
Rural
Rural/urban
Urban
Rural
Rural/urban
(per cent)
(per cent)
East
452
246
54.4
7,940
3,429
43.2
Central
386
191
49.5
5,217
2,091
40.1
West
383
172
44.9
5,642
1,713
30.4
China
413
193
46.7
6,635
2,301
34.7
Note:
ncomes are calculated by the authors as weghted averages from urban dsposable
ncome and rural pure ncome at the provncal level.
Source:
National Bureau of Statistics, 2000a, 2001.
Statistical Yearbook of China
, China
Statistics Press, Beijing.
The impact of WTO accession on agriculture and rural incomes
In 2001, China acceded to the WTO and committed to open its domestic food
markets to mports to a much larger extent. There were several mmedate
changes n agrcultural product trade polces followng Chna's accesson.
The most mportant polces can be summarsed as
China accepted a tariff rate quota (TRQ) for major grain imports
(wheat, corn and rice) at a token tariff rate of 1 per cent. The quota
was 18.31 million tonnes for 2002, 20.2 million tonnes for 2003,
and 22.16 million tonnes for 2004 (WTO, 2001). The quota is shared
between the state and private trading enterprises, and all unused
state quotas are to be transferred to prvate enterprses.
The above-quota tarff rate for the major grans s 65 per cent.
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There s no mport quota for soybeans. The tarff rate for soybeans
is 3 per cent
The average tarff rate for all agrcultural products s to be reduced
from 22 to 17.5 per cent.
All export subsdes are to be elmnated.
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