| Feed industry, as a newly emerging industry, not only makes good use of existing agricultural resources, but also provides a strong basis and conditions for the production of food deriving from animal, on which human beings depend to live and develop. Being a significant factor for the development of animal husbandry, and an important means for the development of livestock breeding, modernization and commercialization of animal husbandry, feed industry is highly related with national economy and public life. At present, feed industry has become an important part in the whole national economy. So, developing feed industry will exert significant economic and social benefit. Under above-mentioned background, the paper systematically studied feed industry in China both in qualitative and quantitative way, so as to obtain valuable conclusion and policies for the development of feed industry.The paper comprehensively studied the development of feed industry in China from all related respects, such as production and supply, consumption and demand, affecting factor, international trade and policy choice for the optimization of feed industry development.Feed industry in developed countries and regions has experienced a process of germination, flushing, growth and maturity. The concentration of product, specialized production and combination of feed enterprises will be the new trend of the global feed industry. Developing pattern and experience of developed countries and regions might give a nudge to the development of Chinese feedstuff industry. Since late 1970's, Chinese feed industry has passed three stages: flushing, growing and adjusting, and has established a completed research, extension, production and sale system.In recent years, Chinese feed industry developed rapidly, and feed output increased quickly, so market supply increased significantly. China has become the second largest country in feed production, only next to USA. In past two decades, feed quality improved steadily and structure became more and more rational.Although Chinese feed has obtained great progress, there still be some problems in the industry, such as poor scale economy, lower technology and management level, high production cost and low labor productivity, disadvantage in market competition, irrational structure and distribution, and security of feed.Demand of feed is directly affected by consumption of livestock products. Demand of livestock products is affected by many factors, in which income is an important factor. Livestock products consumption increased as income increased gradually. In addition, the price of itself and its substitutes are also important. However, there is a large difference in consumption between urban and rural area, and income elasticity is different. The study uses a semi log demand function, with per capita consumption as dependent variable and per capita income, price of itself and its substitutes as independent variables, with 1982- 2000 time series data, to calculate income elasticity and price elasticity of pork, beef, mutton, birds meat, egg, milk and aquatic products, so as to estimate Chinese feed demand.As globalization of world eppnorny steps fprward, international trade will play more and more important roles in resouroes allocation and relation between import,export and supply, demand of feed will become more and more steady. So, international trade is an indispensable part in the analysis of feedstuff market. After Chinese entry into WTO, feed industry faces both to opportunities and challenge.Constrained factors to Chinese feed industry development can be divided into internal factors and external ones. Internal factors include production capacity, material, technology, quality, human resources and management level, and external factors include production and property rights structure, management support system, product market, factor market, and industrial structure adjustment.The analysis of policy and its background and results in different times proved that making po...
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