Research on the influencing factors and potential of China's vegetable exports to RCEP member countries
China is a net exporter of vegetables,and RCEP is the largest market for Chinese vegetable exports.Accurately grasping the factors and export potential that affect Chinese vegetable exports to RCEP member countries is of great sig-nificance for the development of China's vegetable industry.On the basis of analyzing the current situation of China's veg-etable export trade to RCEP member countries,the authors use the trade gravity model to study the influencing factors and trade potential of China's vegetable exports based on the vegetable export trade data from 2006 to 2021.The research results indicate that China's overall export of RCEP vegetables is generally on the rise,with the highest export value to Vietnam.The export varieties are mainly spicy vegetables and unprocessed dry vegetables.The improvement of China's agricultural economic development level,the signing of bilateral FTAs,as well as the increase in the economic scale,rela-tive agricultural economic scale,and trade openness of RCEP member countries,will significantly promote China's vege-table exports to RCEP member countries.Trade economic distance factors will hinder China's vegetable exports.From the perspective of trade potential,RCEP developed countries mainly have huge trade potential,while RCEP developing countries mainly focus on expanding and reshaping their trade potential.Based on this,it is proposed to optimize the struc-ture of vegetable export products,fully utilize the RCEP agreement,and optimize the market structure of vegetable ex-ports to promote the further development of China's vegetable export trade with RCEP.