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China to double agricultural trade with Japan, ROK in 10 years: official
BEIJING, Nov. 11, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – A Chinese agricultural official
Saturday called for closer agricultural cooperation among China, Japan and
the Republic of Korea (ROK) in Beijing.
China will work to double its agricultural trade with Japan and ROK to
over 30 billion U.S. dollars in the next 10 years, said Chinese minister of
agriculture and rural affairs Han Changfu at the Third Trilateral Agriculture
Ministers’ Meeting.
Han said the three countries are strongly complementary in agricultural
technologies, industries and markets, adding they should deepen cooperation
in agriculture and rural development, agricultural technologies, and
agricultural trade.
The three countries have made in-depth exchanges and cooperation in
agricultural policies and animal disease control since the establishment of
the trilateral agricultural cooperation mechanism, Han said.
China’s agricultural trade with Japan and ROK has grown steadily, hitting
16.78 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, accounting for 8.3 percent of the
country’s total trade in agricultural products, Han added.
At the meeting, the three countries vowed to share experience in rural
industrial integration, safety control of agricultural products, innovation
of agricultural technologies, to guarantee food security in the region, and
to push forward the development of resource-saving and environment-friendly
agriculture.
Agricultural ministers from the three sides also issued a joint communique
and a memorandum on trilateral agricultural cooperation.
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