1. Impact of Globalization on Farming

2. China’s Entry into WTO Challenges custom duties on foreign agricultural products would decrease prices of imported agricultural product would decrease quality of imported agricultural products may be better, and so are more competitive the local farmers may lose their jobs.

3. What can we do? Lesson from Mexico Establish plantations Employment small farmers as worker Grow more cash crop / market-oriented Export-oriented Regional specialization e.g. Apple enterprise in ShannXi and Shandong e.g. in Mengniu Nei Mongol

4. What can we do? agriculture entrepreneurialsation / (commercial farming) Development of township business to provide employment opportunities Government aid in technology, credit system Improvement in education and transportation

5. China’s Entry into WTO Opportunities bring in more foreign capital to invest in agriculture speeding up the pace of agriculture entrepreneurialsation improving crops and agricultural production technology enhancing the competitiveness of Chinese agricultural products.

6. China’s Entry into WTO Opportunities promoting agricultural and rural reforms benefiting the development of township business and provide job opportunities improving Chinese legal system, providing protection for peasants

7. Fair Trade in Agriculture http://www.maketradefair.org.hk/trad/index. htmlhttp://www.maketradefair.org.hk/trad/index. html

8. New Hopes for New Life

9. Migrant Workers Rush into cities in the eastern part of China to seek for employment Rural areas of the Western and Central China Most of them come from the Sichuan province

10. Farmers leave their home Seek for employment opportunities Loss their job Without farmland Under production responsibility system Low price of farming products Under free market Natural hazards Rural poverty

11. Farmers leave their home Greater gap between urban and rural under open door policy According the "Statistical Communique 2001" released by the National Bureau of Statistic of China, the annual per capita disposable income of urban households was RMB$6,860 in 2001, with a real increase of 8.5 percent. The per capita net income of rural households was RMB$2,253.

12. Migrant Workers Guangdong (Pearl River Delta), Shanghai (Chang Jiang Delta), Fujian, and Beijing to look for jobs. According to official estimation, half of the migrant workers in the whole country now concentrate in the Pearl River Delta World factory / foreign investment

14. Problems Urban problems They sacrificed their family, and health exploited by the employers Social problems industrial accidents the urban residents hold biased views to these migrant workers, seeing them as causes of corruption and heavy burdens to the urban social system Pressure on transport during new year

15. China’s entry into WTO Competition of imported farming products Further drop in the price of agricultural products agriculture entrepreneurialsation More farmers lose their job Decline of rural economy Greater gap between urban and rural More migrant workers