At the root of seed enterprises' China sojourn
A recent Outlook Weekly report says that in recent years, more than 70 international seed companies, including the top 10, have entered China's seed market with large quantities of seeds, raising concerns whether they will now control Chinese people's "rice bowl" the way foreign chipmakers are controlling the Chinese chip market.
In fact, the technological gap in the seed industry's development in China is not insurmountable. The key to reducing dependence on foreign seeds lies in deepening reform of its agricultural science and technological system.
Investigations show that among the main crops in China, the localization rate of rice and wheat is relatively high, but corn, potato and other vegetable supplies depend partly on imports.