Rice Market Demand And Market Integration In China

The demand is the main power to develop markets, and the spatial market integration is the process and the efficiency that the dispersible various markets carries on the resources to meet the market demand. The past studies on the rice market demand and the market integration used to separate the demand and integration, previous researches often based on single rice type, and researchers scarcely considered the important history backgrounds, for example, the history of China's reform and open policy, and the phase of China's WTO accession. Their research conclusions of rice market demand mainly emphasized the change of some demand elasticity, and that of rice market integration was often to test whether integration exist or not.Some questions about rice market demand and integration were proposed at start of the thesis, and many study methods were applied, include general analysis, econometrics, statistics, and empirical analysis etc. The market demand of various rice types in special historical time, and rice market integration between China and other countries in the world, market relationship among many rice types were all conducted, the article also discussed the market co-integration difference and tendency between China and foreign countries after China's WTO (?) accession and before. In a word, the thesis tries to analyze problems of economics equilibrium and that of statistics equilibrium among various rice markets. Eviews soft as main econometric tool was applied in the full thesis.In the first part, some general economic analyses methods were used to discuss the status of domestic and foreign rice production, and rice marketing channels, and rice international trade; The rice policy that main rice import and export countries developed in the world, some problems and challenge with which the China's rice policy be faced, and so on, were all analyzed. The concentration ratio of the domestic milling processing industry during 1997-2002, and that of countries to which China's rice export from 1993 to 2002 has been calculated also. Base on two industry...