한·중 FTA시대, 對중국 식품수출을 위한 중국법제에 관한 고찰

With the increasing interest in food safety and health, food industry has recently received global attention as an important industry that creates a big added value. In China, which boasts of 1.3 billion population, its food market is increasing at a fast speed with the help of Chinese economic growth. As national income and life standard have been increased, preference of food products has been changed from quantity to quality, and a trend has been revealed to take a serious view of quality and safety. Also an important issue has been raise that how to produce and supply the high quality and safe food. China was already enacted law, regulation, and system about food system, reorganized civil polity about food safety management, and prepared counter-plan to secure the quality and safety for food products. But a few items have been existed to be complemented and improved. Furthermore in recent years, food safety accidents have taken place frequently in China, and this kind of problems is consequently more compounded to the point of infringing on people’s legal rights. Therefore Chinese prefer imported foods than their lacal food and includes the Korean food. Especially, China is regarding the quality and safety of our foods highly and in addition to this, there is also the effect of Korean wave. So Korea-China FTA is a good opportunity to enter the Chinese food market. As food market grows globally, the Korean government is exerting every effort to improve global competitiveness at the national level. As Korea-China FTA is expected to be a new tonic for Korean economic development with the growing trends of Chinese foods industry, it is urgent to expand our foods industry to enter the Chinese foods market and establish strategies accordingly. However, what is the most difficult thing in entering the Chinese market is lack of understanding of Chinese laws. Chinese foods market is an emerging blue ocean, but related laws are not yet established and various regulatory systems are implemented on imported foods. So it is essential for enterprises to understand foods related laws and regulations within China. This study is expected to provide related information necessary for our enterprises and strategies to enter the Chinese market smoothly.