China will have the conditions to gradually restore the impact of Japanese seafood imports on the sea cucumber industry

Recently, many Japanese media have reported that China may reopen the import of Japanese aquatic products in the near future. This news has attracted widespread attention and has also given many people new expectations for the direction of Sino-Japanese relations.

On September 20, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' official website released news that China and Japan reached a consensus on the discharge of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea, and China will conditionally and gradually resume imports of Japanese aquatic products that meet the standards. This means that the Chinese government has begun to actively participate in independent monitoring under the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and has taken measures based on scientific demonstration to solve the problem of the impact of the discharge of contaminated water from Japan into the sea, which will have a significant positive impact on the domestic marine product market.

After the discharge of nuclear contaminated water from Japan, some customers who had planned to join sea cucumber specialty stores suspended the opening of franchise stores, and some consumers inland and southern China began to worry about sea cucumber consumption. As the results of China's official independent monitoring are gradually made public, consumers' concerns about the impact of nuclear contaminated water discharge on sea cucumbers and other seafood are gradually dispelled, sea cucumber consumption gradually recovers, and sea cucumber brand franchise gradually increases. At the same time, winter is the peak season for buying sea cucumbers as a tonic, and the sea cucumber market is expected to usher in a wave of hot sales.

Although we see a glimmer of hope in resolving the issue of nuclear contaminated water being discharged into the sea, and some consumers' concerns have been alleviated, the process is still very complex. According to the consensus of both parties, there are two prerequisites for resuming imports of Japanese aquatic products: first, independent monitoring by the Chinese side is not a problem, and second, gradually regulating aquatic products that comply with regulations. This means that the monitoring results will not be announced in the short term and Japan's aquatic product imports will not be immediately resumed.