Under The Framework Of The Wto, China's Agricultural Support And Protection

The agriculture is the national economy's foundation. As a big country, China has a population of 13 hundred million,9 hundred million of whom are farmers, so agriculture plays a particularly important role in China. However, Chinese agriculture has plenty of defects: the weak foundation, the lov; labor productivity, the narrow and disperse running scale, the laggard way of cultivation, the high cost and the bad quality of the main agricultural product. On December 11,2001, China entered WTO formally. It brings not only a great opportunity but also an austere challenge for the development of Chinese agriculture. The challenge comes from two aspects: one is that we must accept the restriction of "The WTO Agriculture Agreement" rule on the market permission, the domestic support, the export subsidies .The other is that we must carry out the promise related to reduce the tariffs gradually, tore down not-tariff barracks, open the agricultural product market. Facing the opportunity and challenge, China should take advantage of the opportunity to develop agriculture rapidly, meanwhile, we should strengthen the government's protection on agriculture to meet the challenge. This article studies how to establish and consummate the system of supporting and protecting agriculture, according to the rule of "The WTO Agriculture Agreement", hi order to alleviate the impact of entering the WTO, keep Chinese agriculture's advantage position in the international competition, ensure continual and steady development of our country's agriculture.The first section discusses the necessity of China supporting and protecting agriculture after entering the WTO. To support and protect agriculture is the rule of economics development, our agriculture is far behind, and entering WTO will impact the agricultural development of our country, so we can draw a conclusion that China must learn from the foreign experience to establish and consummate the system of supporting and protecting agriculture according to the rule of "The WTO Agriculture Agreement". The second section analyzes the space of supporting and protecting agriculture after entering the WTO, according to "the WTO Agriculture Agreement" and our promises. The third section probes into the system of supporting and protecting agriculture from four aspects: the main body, the object, the principle and the way. The fourth section is the focus on the article and it provides the measures for supporting and protecting agriculture, emphasizes strongly the "Green Box "policy. At last, the article points out that we not only supports and protects agriculture, but also accelerate the development of agriculture of itself.