Situation and countermeasures of milk safety production in China

Milk production and occupancy per capita over the last 15 years in China can be divided into two periods of time: a rapid growth period (2000-2007, with average annual increases of 22.64% and 21.97%) and a slow growth period (dating from the 2008 “melamine” milk powder incident, with the average annual increase of 0.72% and 0.49%). Since 2000, the milk production and milk occupancy per capita of China have respectively increased 4.35 and 4.11 times, but is still 1/3 of the milk production in the United States and 1/2 of that in India, and milk occupancy per capita is still less than 1/10 of that in the United States and 1/2 of that in India. The per capita dairy consumption of urban and rural residents increases linearly with increase in milk yield and dairy product importance, with respective average annual increases of 5.35% and 15.77%. China’s milk production has a significant impact on rural dairy consumption, and dairy imports have a significant effect on dairy consumption of both urban and rural residents. Through a comparative analysis of domestic and international information, it can be concluded that China’s milk production system should speed up the grass planting-dairy production-milk processing-milk sales of the longitudinal system coupling, and strengthen the production of many units through the contract system of lateral coupling. According to the theory of four production layers of grassland agriculture, our next steps should be to establish dairy production supervision and protection, from the level of soil and water conservation to the level of consumption, to improve the income distribution mechanism of dairy industry chain based on forage grass planting and dairy cattle breeding, and to take advantage of the integrated systems of grassland and dairy cattle.