Abstract:

China is already a world's large soybean consumer and net importer of soybeans, with a serious shortage of soybeans and soybean oil, with low self-sufficiency rate and a relatively concentrated source of imports. How to reduce the foreign dependence of soybeans and improve the supply of soybean oil are very important issue in the current new period, to ensure food security in China. Based on the current supply and demand of soybeans in China, the article analyzes the comparative advantages of soybeans in China from the perspective of oil processing, explains the essential reason of the low self-sufficiency rate of soybean oil, and put forward some suggestions, such as improving the self-sufficiency rate of soybean oil, developing and popularizing high-yield soybean in saline-alkali land, increasing planting area and oil yield of high-oil soybean, popularizing rational soybean oil consumption, and substituting consumption of other oil crops to improve the self-sufficiency rate of soybean oil in China.

Key words: soybean oil, self-sufficiency rate, countermeasures and suggestions