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What’s Going On in
China: Corn, GMO, Crop
Insurance and High-
Speed Rails
Wendong Zhang
Assistant Professor of Economics and Extension Economist
515-294-2536
2017 Crop Advantage Series, Okoboji, IA, January 5th, 2017
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The new Mike
Duffy
30
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A Quick Introduction:
Dr. Wendong Zhang
– Grown up in a rural county in NE China
– Attended college in Shanghai and Hong Kong
– Ph.D. in Ag Econ in 2015 from Ohio State
– 2012 summer intern at USDA-ERS on farm economy
and farmland values
– Research and extension interests:
land value/ownership http://card.iastate.edu/farmland/
agriculture and the environment
China Ag: quarterly Ag DM articles
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China’s Provinces
MyHometown
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My
Hometown:
Shenxian,
Shandong
Province
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Greenhouse – plastic film - Shandong Province
Intensification of Land-Use in China
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Source: Economist
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High-Speed
Rail in China
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China vs. US
Zhang 2015 Ag Policy Review
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Of Maize and Markets: China’s New
Corn Policy
Wu and Zhang 2016
Ag Policy Review
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Of Maize and Markets: China’s New
Corn Policy
Wu and Zhang 2016
Ag Policy Review
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Of Maize and Markets: China’s New
Corn Policy
Wu and Zhang 2016
Ag Policy Review
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GMO in China
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GMO in China:
Controversy/Divide
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GMO in China:
Controversy/Divide
YongyuanCui
Larry King in China;Key critique of GMO
GMO corn illegal
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Crop Insurance in China
world’s 2nd
largest market 2007-2014
2007 2014
Acres Covered for major
crops (US acres)
37.9 million 182.2 million
Corn: 67.3%
Rice: 64.9%
Wheat: 61.8%
Premiums (US $) 0.69 billion 5 billion
# Households Insured 214 million
Indemnity Paid (US $) 3.4 billion
Source: Wenhui Chen 2014
2013 flood in Heilongjiang: paid $900 per household, 62% of annual average income; 59.7% insured households get payments
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Crop Insurance in China
world’s 2nd
largest market 2007-2014
Source: Wenhui Chen 2014
How it works now?
o Insures based on production cost
o Pay-up coverage level: 75% of production cost
o Risk covered: weather (not market)
o Vegetable, pork price loss insurance trial
o 2nd insurance market (similar to FarmerMac)
Future developments/trials
o Weather-based index insurance
o Price-based index insurance
o Yield/revenue-based insurance
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A Primer on China’s Political
System and Reform Logic
Chinese Communist PartyPower Pyramid
Source: Asian Times 2016
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China’s Experimentalist Approach:
Local Trial & Error + (RDA) Regional
Tournament Competition for promotion
o Demarcation/certification of leasing rights for rural
land: 22 [30] provinces (230 million rural households)
o Operating rights of leased rural land & Rural
residence as collateral: 300 [3000] counties
o Bundling reform “rural land reclamation + rural
residential land owned by collectives + rural
residence rights system”: 33 [333] cities
Each trial area has a different approach, has a
potential to become national policy
Source: Xinhua News 2016;Xu 2011 JEL
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Is China a Currency Manipulator?
Real effective exchange rate: inflation-adjusted exchange rate against all trading partners, weighted by trade volume
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Growing Trade deficit w China
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China’s Importance in U.S. and
Iowa Ag Trade
Source: Hart and Lee 2015
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Impact of
Trade War
w China
and
Mexico on
US
economy
Source: Peterson Institute
45% tariff on China, 35% on MexicoAborted in one year
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U.S.-China trade war games?
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Iowa
Farmland
Value
Portal
ww.card.
iastate.edu/
farmland
twitter#ISUlandvalue
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Thank You!
Wendong ZhangAssistant Professor and Extension Economist
478C Heady Hall
Iowa State University
515-294-2536
http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/faculty/zhang