THE EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL TRADE NETWORK AND CHINA'S COUNTERMEASURES
In the face of the increasingly severe and complex international economic and political environment,it is of great significance to clarify the characteristics and trends of the global agricultural trade pattern and to improve the international recycling capability in order to respond to international agricultural market risks in a timely manner.Based on social network analysis,and using world agricultural trade data from 1996 to 2021,this paper constructed a global agricultural trade network from three dimensions:namely,industry,and processing level,and quantitatively analyzed the pattern evolution and important node characteristics of the global agricultural trade network.The results were listed as follows.(1)The agricultural trade relations between countries were becoming increasingly deepened,and the number of countries in the core position significantly increased.The single-center dominant position represented by the United States had been weakened,but the situation where a few countries dominated global agricultural trade had not changed.(2)China's position in the global agricultural trade network significantly improved,with both the degree centrality and closeness centrality ranking high,but the centrality was at a low level,indicating that China's control over global agricultural resources and markets was still insufficient.(3)The positions of countries in different sub-industries showed obvious heterogeneity.Most countries'imports were concentrated on a few products from a few trading partners.Processing trade was gradually becoming the mainstream of global agricultural trade,and developing high value-added agricultural trade had become a strategic choice for the long-term development of agricultural trade in various countries.Therefore,China should continuously optimize the layout of agricultural trade,expand trade with emerging markets such as Asia,Latin America,and Africa,and constantly improve the position of agriculture in the global value chain.