Abstract:

Along with the pilot projects on cultivating genetically modified（GM）maize and soybean in China, the large-scale commercialization of GM crops has reached a critical moment in the country. To orderly promote the commercialization of GM crops in China, this study first reviews the global and China's history of the commercialization of GM crops. Second, it analyzes two major opportunities of commercializing GM crops in China: 1）The increasing import and indirect consumption of GM crops in China have improved the acceptance of downstream processing industries and consumers to GM crops; 2）China's R&D investment and technical reserves of GM technology over the last decades have made excellent foundation for the country's commercialization of GM crops. Finally, this study proposes improving consumers' awareness of GM crops, making the best use of the technical reserves of GM technology, and strengthening the supervision to the whole process of commercializing GM crops to extend the cultivating area of GM soybean and maize in China.

Key words: biological breeding commercialization, policy of genetically modified crops, supervision biological breeding