Two Sessions: Seeds, Breeding Animals is Chinese Agriculture’s Key Bottleneck
Chinese top politicians are facing a tough bottleneck issue, how to develop China’s stock of seeds and breeding animals, at the two sessions the Chinese Communist Party’s most important annual political conference from March 4 to 11.
“China faces a similar dilemma in the seeds and breeding animals industries as it does with semiconductor chips,” China News Weekly reported on March 9.
China is calling seeds and breeding animals the “chips of agriculture.” With semiconductor chips, the country currently relies on advanced technologies that are imported. Its biggest telecommunication manufacturer, Huawei, lost 5.6 percent of its market share in the smartphones industry in the third quarter of 2020 after the United States started banning exports to China, according to U.S. headquartered market research company IDC.
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