China's Food Safety Governance Multi-agent Collaborative Regulation Research

In recent years, food safety accidents are high-risk. As we all know that unsafe food is harmful to our healthy。Through some special cases as domestic consumers rushed to purchase import milk powder and so on, we must realize that there is a potential trust crisis between the domestic consumers and the food industry, and this could be an incredible threat to the whole food industry. Facing the increasingly fierce international competition, due to the politic or trade protection reasons, other countries may use the food safety problem to damage China’s image in the international arena. Therefore, it becomes a realistic subject that how to improve the food safety level, enhance the confidence of domestic consumers, promote the food industry to develop in a healthy and stable rate and build a great image of "made in China",which deserves our attention and we must find out a solution to work out the problems.Looking back on the food safety accidents and the supervision situation in recent years, on the one hand, we find that the accidents becomes frequent, and the problems are not only limited in small processing workshop but also exist in some huge enterprises like Sanlu, Mengniu,Yili,and Shuanghui. On the other hand, we also take notice of that the supervision from government increases day by day, which means that market and government supervision are both failed in the food safety problems. In this situation, we have to find another way out. This article tried to put social medium organization into the main roles and gave it the legal status. Then the article discussed whether the diversification could change the stuck situation effectively, further more, to generate a interacting and evolutionary relationship among market, government and the social power.First, this paper does some summaries and theoretical researches in related literature. Through the analysis of the present situation, background and related literature of food safety problems, I chose the item and the boundary of this research, meanwhile, I gave some definitions to related concepts. On the basis of above theoretical researches, this paper uses the Game Theory to analyze the reasons that why both market and government failed in this problem, and initiates the discussion about whether we should introduce another participator to this system. Second, this paper is focused on stating the positive function on the participation of social medium organization, how the three kinds of power reach an interactional relationship through the evolutionary progress in an institutional framework and how they finally improve the situation. The last part of this paper introduces some advanced experience of developed countries in this area, and find out the deference. On the basis of specific condition of China, this paper tries to make use of other advanced experience to help China building a multiagent collaborative regulation institution. Further more, this paper lists some necessary principles for the multiagent collaborative regulation institution, the measures that each subject should take and related policy proposals.