Abstract
Recently, development of Chinese agriculture/food industry’s development has greatly improved domestic food supply and raised exports of agricultural products.
However, a series of serious cases threatening the food safety occurred in China after 2000. This situation caused great worry among people both in and out of China and it has become a significant task for Chinese society and economy to maintain the food safety.
This paper discussed the following issues;
1. The real status of the development of production and exports of Chinese agricultural products are shown in this paper. It has been found that Japan has the strong relationship with China since Japan is the biggest client of Chinese agricultural products which accounts for the significant amount of Japanese consumption.
2. Problems on the food safety after 2000 and countermeasures against them were discussed. The paper is focusing on the strengthened government regulations and transformations of production and management system by enterprises, and introducing “Anqiu Model,” the new efforts implemented in Anqiu city in Shandong province.
3. The examination of the findings leads to the guidelines for future food supply policies of Japan which is heavily dependent on China. The author recommended that Japan should import those of good quality, and Japan and China should deal with problems in collaboration, considering Japanese vulnerable structure of agricultural food supply
