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China’s New Plan to Raise Agricultural Product Quality: What Foreign Founders Need to Know
China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has issued a plan to improve agricultural product quality by 2030. Foreign founders in agri-food, trade, or related sectors should note the emphasis on standards, green production, and quality certification.
China’s New Plan to Raise Agricultural Product Quality: What Foreign Founders Need to Know
On October 28, 2026, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the National Plan for Improving Agricultural Product Quality under the 15th Five-Year Plan. The plan sets out key tasks and targets for enhancing the quality of agricultural products by 2030. For foreign founders operating or planning to operate a company in China—particularly in agri-food, trade, or related sectors—this policy signals upcoming changes in standards, production requirements, and market opportunities.
Key Tasks Outlined in the Plan
The plan focuses on several areas:
- Strengthening high-quality standards: The plan calls for better standards to guide agricultural production.
- Promoting green production transformation: Emphasis on transitioning to greener production methods.
- Increasing supply of优质 agricultural products: Expanding the availability of high-quality agricultural goods.
- Strict quality and safety supervision: Enhancing oversight to ensure food safety.
- Strengthening technology empowerment: Leveraging technology to improve quality.
- Strengthening international cooperation and exchange: Encouraging collaboration with international partners.
These tasks aim to ensure that the public has access to safe, reassuring, nutritious, and healthy food.
Targets for 2030
By 2030, the plan aims to achieve the following:
- A more robust standards system for high-quality agricultural development.
- Significant improvement in standardized and green production capabilities.
- Basic establishment of a market-demand-oriented quality evaluation and grading system.
- Further improvement of the whole-chain quality management system and regulatory mechanisms.
- A notable increase in the supply of green and high-quality agricultural products.
- The national routine monitoring pass rate for agricultural product quality and safety to remain stable at above 98%.
- The total number of green, organic, famous-special-new, and geographical indication agricultural products to reach 130,000.
Specific Measures
To achieve these goals, the plan specifies a series of measures:
- Implement an agricultural standardization improvement plan to strengthen the leading role of standards.
- Promote the safe utilization and strict control of contaminated farmland.
- Build a diversified supply system for green and high-quality agricultural products, continuously expanding the production scale of green, organic, famous-special-new, and geographical indication products, and accelerating the development of green and high-quality livestock, poultry, aquatic products, and deeply processed agricultural products.
- Improve the national agricultural product quality and safety risk assessment system.
Implications for Foreign Founders
For foreign founders, this plan indicates that China is placing greater emphasis on quality standards and green production in agriculture. If your business involves importing, exporting, or producing agricultural products in China, you may need to align with evolving standards and certification requirements. The plan’s focus on international cooperation could also open avenues for collaboration. However, specific compliance details are not outlined in this summary; founders should monitor further announcements from relevant authorities.
This summary is based on information published by the relevant Chinese government website and is general information, not legal or tax advice.
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