This book looks at the economic development and financial (and marketing) strategies together with health issues of the Chinese dairy industry. The book provides a distinctive angle on how to integrate health policy, industry organization, product design, and market penetration in one coherent framework: supplying differentiated healthy milk products to meet the increasing Chinese demand. The book focuses on an important theme which is food safety crisis. The book illustrates how a profound social change is unfolding in China through the dairy industry.
Currently per capita consumption of dairy products in China is low. In view of China's strong economic growth and the resulting higher consumer income, whether this would represent a great market potential for dairy products has drawn much interest from the dairy industry both within and outside China. This paper overviews China's dairy market with up-to-date information and highlights important factors affecting its development. The study shows that the growth of demand for dairy products in China is promising. However, despite the fact that China's accession to the WTO will result in reductions in trade barriers, a substantial increase in exports of dairy products to the Chinese market is unlikely in the near future. This is due to a number of reasons including taste differences between the Chinese and the consumers of those major dairy exporters. Increased understanding of the Chinese dairy markets and increased attention to modifying their products to suit the tastes of the Chinese are essential for dairy exporters to succeed in the Chinese market.
Why do the Chinese, who are mostly lactase non-persistent, suddenly thirst for milk today? Whether it is formula milk, fresh cow milk, or tea with condensed milk, the rocketing milk consumption and production in China are of increasing global food safety, health, and environmental concerns. Milk Craze examines and compares developments in China's dairy industry and dietary dairy consumption, cross-nationally and globally, and more specifically in two localities: Shunde and Hong Kong. Through an innovative analysis of medical texts and social media, as well as careful ethnographic studies, Veronica Mak ponders why the surge in demand for Western cow milk coincides with the plunge in sales of indigenous water-buffalo milk and cheese. She reveals the multiple ways in which global industries and Chinese dairy conglomerates sabotage and destroy local dairy farms. She shows that the rise of milk consumption is not just about the globalization of cow milk production and Westernization of the Chinese diet, but also due to the crossovers between the traditional Chinese diet and medicine and modern global diets. She uses these reference points to explore the multiple meanings of dairy foods in China, such as the class and cultural attributes associated with British “milk tea” and flavored yogurt products, water buffalo curds and cheese, and the lower class associations of labor in the water-buffalo dairying industries, and then discusses these developments in China through colonial and modern global perspectives. Milk Craze argues powerfully that the Westernization or dramatic change of diet in China too often obscures structural, educational, occupational, and social stresses and constraints, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health, cognitive performance, and ideal body shape as individual responsibility and imperative.
In China, the dairy market has expanded in recent years and it relies heavily on the imports from foreign countries. During the past decades, the Chinese dairy market kept opening, and the fast development of China’s dairy trade calls for a research analyzing the effect of trade liberalization on the dairy sector. In this research, we provide a quantitative assessment of the implications of liberalization of the international trade in dairy products between China and its trading partners using a spatial equilibrium model. The model is developed based on 2011 data from open databases. The following five questions are answered in this paper: (1) What is the current situation of China’s dairy sector and how does China’s dairy market develop? (2) What policies are relevant for dairy trade between China and its trade partners now and in the future? (3) How can dairy trade of China be modeled? (4) What data on demand, supply and trade are necessary and available to construct a spatial equilibrium model? (5) What are the effects of trade liberalization on the dairy sector in China? Three scenarios of different levels of trade liberalization are simulated and the simulation result proves the positive influence of trade liberalization on Chinese dairy sector from a welfare perspective. Based on the results, we come up with some policy recommendations. Throughout the thesis, chapter 1 provides a general description of the background and problem analysis. Chapter 2 describes the development of China’s dairy sector and relevant trade policies. A trade model has been developed in Chapter 3. Next, Chapter 4 focuses on the effects of trade liberalization using a graphical analysis. Chapter 5 details the scenarios and simulation results. Finally, Chapter 6 presents the conclusions, recommendations and discussion.
Rising values of Chinese dairy imports in recent years generated studies exploring the market potentials for future importing. These studies typically treat the country and its population as uniform and undifferentiated, with homogeneous consumption and production patterns, ignoring the fact that demographic and geographic features are very different across China. At the same time, China's milk production is expanding rapidly, and unevenly in the last 20 years. The supply of milk, a highly perishable commodity, makes the geographic location of production and spatial price differences important factors in defining the availability of milk to populations across the country. The scenarios of inter-regional trade of milk powder and other storable dairy products across China are emerging. This paper is devoted to building an inter-regional dairy trade model for China, and predicting its dynamic internal dairy trade flow under free trade scenario. This paper updates and summarizes dairy product consumption and supply trends in China, and divides China in four regions. Panel data is used to check consumer and producer responses in different regions, and, at the same time, serve as a test for the hypothesis that China's dairy consumption preference and production patterns are different across the country. Partial equilibrium is the framework used to build the inter-regional dairy trade model. Our results show that in the major milk producing of Northwestern China producers will suffer most and local consumers may not benefit that much. Eastern China, the richest area, is not benefiting as much from free trade since its high income consumers are not that price sensitive. This region will continue to be the largest importer among the four regions. Inland China and Western China are less price sensitive in production but more price responsive in consumption. With price reduction under free trade, these regions gain more and a free trade policy will stimulate the imports in these two regions.
Why do the Chinese, who are mostly lactase non-persistent, suddenly thirst for milk today? Whether it is formula milk, fresh cow milk, or tea with condensed milk, the rocketing milk consumption and production in China are of increasing global food safety, health, and environmental concerns. Milk Craze examines and compares developments in China's dairy industry and dietary dairy consumption, cross-nationally and globally, and more specifically in two localities: Shunde and Hong Kong. Through an innovative analysis of medical texts and social media, as well as careful ethnographic studies, Veronica Mak ponders why the surge in demand for Western cow milk coincides with the plunge in sales of indigenous water-buffalo milk and cheese. She reveals the multiple ways in which global industries and Chinese dairy conglomerates sabotage and destroy local dairy farms. She shows that the rise of milk consumption is not just about the globalization of cow milk production and Westernization of the Chinese diet, but also due to the crossovers between the traditional Chinese diet and medicine and modern global diets. She uses these reference points to explore the multiple meanings of dairy foods in China, such as the class and cultural attributes associated with British “milk tea” and flavored yogurt products, water buffalo curds and cheese, and the lower class associations of labor in the water-buffalo dairying industries, and then discusses these developments in China through colonial and modern global perspectives. Milk Craze argues powerfully that the Westernization or dramatic change of diet in China too often obscures structural, educational, occupational, and social stresses and constraints, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health, cognitive performance, and ideal body shape as individual responsibility and imperative.
As one of the Series of Approaching China, this book presents a full view of China's dairy products market, provides analysis and suggestions on how to approaching this fast growing market. In order to help readers understand the current market environment and know the business rules, culture and characteristics in China, this book includes the introduction on the market shares, competition, key players, market segmentation, import & export changes, sales channel, buyer's behavior, entry barriers, industrial environment and policy trends; introduces the procedure for practicing dairy products business in China, Chinese inspection & standards system, a list of major importers & agencies and annual trade fairs in China. In terms of the writing method, for convenience of readers, authors of this book greatly use a form of illustration plus text analysis and presentation. Through the combination of multiple chart forms such as flow chart, system chart, distribution graph, tendency chart and proportion chart, Approaching the Dairy Product Markets in China visually presents readers with a picture of the Chinese market conditions as well as guidance for entry.
