Sugar Industry In China: Price,Cost And Technology Efficiency

Though China has comparative advantages in the sugar crop (sugarcane and beet) production, but it is confronted with enormous impact of importing sugar at the same time. In order to explain this strange phenomenon, and put forward the corresponding countermeasure, this research regardes sugar crops planting and sugar refining as a whole, analyses the disparities of sugar industry between China and other mainly countries in terms of whole industry chain. For the sake of finding out the key crux which influences the competitiveness of Chinese sugar industry. The paper makes basic research work for participating in the international competition of the China sugar industry, sugar crops household cope with internationalization challenge, and try hard to offer one set practical scheme, which also has the depth of theory in enhancing the competitiveness of sugar industry.At first, the dissertation systematically describes the operating mechanism of the international sugar market and each national sugar policy. Then, it separately assesses integrated degree between China sugar market and international sugar market; among different China sugar market/The brief history of world and China sugar industry; the influence of sugar policies on China sugar development. Market structure and performance of the China sugar industry; production efficiency of sugar enterprise and sugar crop; the production cost difference and its reason of sugar enterprise and sugar crop; bargaining relationship among sugar enterprises and farms who plant sugar crop; Regional comparative advantage in sugar crops planting; supply response of sugar crops and farms choosing behavior; International comparision of sugar production cost, so and on. Finally, the research put forward intact settlement countermeasure from the view of industry chain that coordinate each other.The conclusion shows: though the international sugar market is a distorted market, the production cost is still an important factor that determines the sugar price for a long time. To developing countries who don't have enough financial resources to carry on agriculture protect, only by lowering costs can survive and development in the distorted market. In the long run, China sugar markets are integrative; China markets and international markets are integrative. Look short time, the fluctuation of international sugar price couldn't immediately cause the domestic sugar price change; Domestic price's fluctuation is influence to the international market very much little. The Chinese sugar industry is a perfect competition market structure. The appropriate scale management can improve the profit ability of the whole industry. The labour force in sugar industry is surplus. In the assets aspect, the sugarcane industry stores unused assets; the beet sugar industry put into insufficient capital.Technology efficiency of the China sugar industry is all optimum in majority year; Scale efficiency has important influence on production efficiency. In terms of enterprise, the key role that restrains the output of factory lies in sugar crops at present. The way that sugar enterprise realizes scale production is not to extend or newly build some large-scale sugar refineries, but it should reconstruct, fully utilize existing latent production capacity to play to the scale advantage. Improving sugar crops sucrose and factory's total recovery rate can remarkable reducing enterprise production cost, and improve the profit rate.Because of the enterprise and sugar crop farms are separately management, bargaining cost is high, the market risk is great, special assets under-capitalize. The regional distribution of china sugar industry accords with the comparative advantage principle. Technology efficiency leaves relatively limited spaces to increase sugarcane production. It is the only feasible way to improve output of the sugarcane to plant the improved seeds. The technological efficiency of the beet has very big upgrade space. For the sake of reducing production cost, scale expanding of the sugarcane is not a good way...