Agriculture Reference
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a revealed comparative advantage in corn, rice, peanuts, other oilseeds
and miscellaneous grains. However, China has a revealed comparative
disadvantage in wheat, soybean, rapeseeds, and all vegetable oils.
In the group of horticultural products, China has a revealed comparative
advantage in all horticultural products, except vegetable plaiting materials.
In the group of animal products, China has a revealed comparative
advantage in live animals (including pigs and poultry), beef, pork, fish
and aquatic products, and products of animal origin, but has a revealed
comparative disadvantage in mutton, dairy products and animal fats.
For the group of processed agricultural products, China has a revealed
comparative advantage in products of the milling industry, preparations
of meat, fish and aquatic products, preparations of cereals, preparations
of vegetables and fruits, miscellaneous edible preparations, beverages
and spirits, and tobacco products, while it has a revealed comparative
disadvantage in sugar and sugar confectionary, cocoa and cocoa
preparations, and residues from food industry and animal feed.
In the group of raw materials for textiles, China has a revealed
comparative advantage in silk, but has a revealed comparative disadvantage
in raw hides and skins, wool, cotton, and other vegetable textile fibres.
In terms of
commodity groups, China has a revealed comparative
advantage in horticultural products, in processed agricultural products, and
in animal products. But has a revealed comparative disadvantage in cereals,
vegetable oilseeds and vegetable oils, and in raw materials for textiles.
In terms of the factor intensity of production, China has a revealed
comparative advantage in labour-intensive agricultural products, but has a
revealed comparatve dsadvantage n land-ntensve agrcultural products.
These patterns of Chna's revealed comparatve advantage and ds-
advantage are consstent wth the country's resource endowments.
Changes in the revealed comparative advantage of agriculture
Chna's revealed comparatve advantage n agrculture has been on a
declining trend, especially after 2002 (Figure 11.9). The values of China's
revealed comparatve advantage ndces for all agrcultural products
declined from around 0.4 in the early 1990s to around 0.2 in 2002, and
