Abstract
An immense and increasingly well-to-do population has forced China to relent in strictly following the principles of organic farming that so strongly characterized its agriculture for centuries. The environmental and fossil-fuel energy problems accompanying China's remarkable rural economic development during the 1980s have caused an intensive reexamination of the country's agricultural development policies. Emerging from this reexamination is the concept of “ecological” agricultural development involving the hybrid pursuit of “conventional” innovative and modern technologies from the West, and traditional organic practices from times past in China. This article portrays the background for and current status of Chinese agricultural development, characterizes and presents illustrative results from China's strategy for ecological agricultural development, and highlights similarities and contrasts between ecological agriculture in China and sustainable agriculture in the West.
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