Status quo and trends of world's rice industry development and its enlightenment to China.

This paperanalyzed the current situation and development trends of world's rice industry from rice production, market and trading, and it pointed that the world's rice industry is facing serious situation and trends, such as an increasing population, consumer demand will grow steadily; stronger resources constrained, the rice production increasing speed will become slower;global warming, severe weatherandpests will appearfrequently;low comparative benefit, the obvious contradiction between increasing yield and increasing income.The authorpointed the development trends of world's rice industry:an increasing of total rice production, the rice production increasing speed will become slower; the per capital consumption will grow steadily, the total demand consumption will increase; the self-sufficiency rate of all the countries inthe world will be increased, the trade volume will be reduced.The author putfoward that we must based on the domestic rice production,use the international market to meet the demand is unrealistic and energetically raise the level of rice industry.