期货市场是市场经济发展到一定程度的产物,是贸易方式长期演进的结果,是现代市场体系的一个重要组成部分。棉花作为一种重要的经济作物,在世界上早已为人们所利用,其产销量也随着社会经济的发展呈现逐步放大的趋势。目前国际上主要产棉国均已建立了棉花期货市场,而我国作为世界 The futures market is a product of the development of the market economy to a certain degree and is the result of the long-term evolution of the trade mode and an important part of the modern market system. As an important cash crop, cotton has been used by people in the world for a long time, and its production and sales tended to increase gradually along with the social and economic development. At present, the major cotton producing countries in the world have all established the cotton futures market, while our country as the world