Based on the cross-border panel data of China and 18 grain trading partner countries from 2002 to 2020, the factors affecting the international trade of grain virtual cultivated land resources in China were empirically tested using international trade theory and extended gravity model. The results show that agricultural labor resource endowment, population size, absolute difference of per capita income (not significant) , exchange rate, distance and WTO have promoting effects on international trade of grain virtual cultivated land resources in China. However, agricultural land resource endowment, water resource endowment, technical level (not significant) , agricultural industry scale gap, economic development level difference, market price level and “Belt and Road”initiative have negative effects on the flow of virtual cultivated land resource. Finally, the empirical test results provide the policy implications.

grain trade  /  virtual cultivated land resources  /  extended gravity model