date:Feb 01, 2013
t set in China's five-year farm plan.
Many in the industry were predicting that quotas would be cut in 2013 to stem cheap foreign supplies, but Chen Xiwen, director of the Chinese Communist Party's top policy making body for rural affairs, said imports would continue to play an important supplementary role in the market.
We should use both international and domestic markets to ensure farm product supplies and we should not go back to closing the gates, said Chen, speaking at a news conference.