The export volume of farm produce in east China's Shandong
Province was expected to top US$7 billion in 2005, according to
local economic department.
The province exported US$6.23 billion worth of farm produce in
the first 11 months last year, a rise of 26.6 percent year on year
and 7.3 percentage points higher than the national average for the
same period, according to the Shandong Provincial Trade and
Economic Bureau.
Shandong's farm produce export accounted for 25 percent of the
national total for the 11-month period, up 1.4 percentage points
over the same period of 2004.
An official with the provincial trade and economic bureau
ascribed the increase in export to the improvement of farm produce
quality.
Shandong has set up more than 1,500 bases which produce
standardized farm products, including non-pollution products and
organic products. The acreage of these production bases reaches 2
million hectares.
(Xinhua News Agency January 4, 2006)