Abstract
PurposeWith the development of social productive forces and the advancement of agricultural practices since the founding of New China, the connotation of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics has undergone a process from formation to continuous expansion and deepening.Design/methodology/approachIts evolution can be roughly divided into four stages: the exploration stage, the formation stage, the establishment stage and the deepening stage. The historical evolution of the connotation of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics demonstrates four typical characteristics, namely increasingly scientific logical premise, continuously diversified orientations, increasingly improved core contents and progressively maturing strategies of development.FindingsThe achievements of agricultural modernization have laid a solid foundation for China's industrial modernization and the rapid development of the national economy. Meanwhile, the authors have identified through practical exploration a path of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics. In recent years, academic research on the connotation of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics has gradually heated up, and relevant achievements have emerged constantly.Originality/valueThe Communist Party of China (hereinafter “CPC”) has placed considerable emphasis on agricultural issues and has been committed to promoting agricultural modernization since the founding of New China. Through long-term persistence and unremitting efforts, China has made remarkable achievements in agricultural development: significantly improved agricultural production conditions and agricultural output capacity, constantly optimized agricultural structure and steadily increased the income of farmers.
Highlights
With the development of social productive forces and the advancement of agricultural practices since the founding of New China, the connotation of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics has undergone a process from formation to continuous expansion and deepening
We have identified through practical exploration a path of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics
Scholars generally believe that the interpretation of the connotation of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics should reflect the general prescriptiveness and the universality of agricultural modernization and the unique mark of “Chinese characteristics” based on China’s national conditions
Summary
The Communist Party of China (hereinafter “CPC”) has placed considerable emphasis on agricultural issues and has been committed to promoting agricultural modernization since the founding of New China. During the period from the early days of the founding of New China to the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the CPC (1949–1978), under the highly closed planned economy system, agricultural modernization was mainly promoted by input of factors of production and aimed at increasing agriculture output by followed the “technology oriented paradigm.”. During the period from the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the CPC to the Sixteenth National Congress of the CPC (1978–2002), in the process of gradual establishment of the socialist market economy system, agricultural modernization was mainly promoted by institutional innovation and aimed at increasing agriculture output and increasing farmers’ income by following the “paradigm of balanced emphasis on technological and institutional changes.”. During the period from the Sixteenth National Congress of the CPC to the Eighteenth National Congress of the CPC (2002–2012), in the process of gradual improvement of the socialist market economy system, agricultural modernization was mainly promoted by coordinated urban and rural development and aimed at ensuring national food security, increasing farmers’ income and sustainable development of agriculture by following the “system oriented paradigm.” In terms of understanding, the central government advocated the “selection of a path of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics,” expanded the contents of agricultural modernization into a complex that includes the strengthening of Evolution characteristics
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