Topicality. The urgency of the problem of using the positive foreign experience of economic transformations and opportunities for its application in the domestic practice of reform and public administration based on the use of public authorities to implement the agricultural policy of the People's Republic of China is currently very important. Aim and tasks. The aim of the article is to develop theoretical and methodological provisions for the application of public authorities for the implementation of agricultural policy of the People's Republic of China at different stages of its development. Research results. In the Chinese economy, the agricultural sector continues to play a significant role, remaining the world's leading producer and exporter of agricultural products, although it owns only 10% of the world's arable land. China's agriculture was focused on meeting the country's domestic grain needs on its own, but in recent years they have been covered by imports. Thus, the reduction of land available for crops, made it more profitable to import crops such as wheat and rice, which allowed to save China's resources for growing more valuable products (fruits, nuts or vegetables). To support the country's independence in the field of cereals and maintain the quality of food, the Chinese government is stepping up policies aimed at cultivating more profitable crops. The main directions of modernization of the commodity economy with the purpose of revival of economic activity on transition of mainly traditional (consumer) agriculture to market (commodity) type are substantiated, where the main main direction of the accelerated development of agriculture became deep structural reorganization, refusal of monoculture of grain in agriculture and transition to diversification. farms. It is determined that in the differentiation of Chinese markets, their main common feature is the regulated nature. This is what ensured the stability of the reform movement, and the practice gave the economic process the appearance of permanent compromises in the formation of flexible economic policy. Conclusions. The agrarian policy of the state, largely due to an effective system of public administration, must ensure its food security, which is an important component of national security, which guarantees the political independence of the country, its economic integrity and stable social security. Agriculture plays a significant role in the country's economy, thanks to which the country occupies a leading position in the world in terms of agricultural production and exports. The structure of agricultural production is dominated by crop production, although the country's livestock industry has been actively developing in recent years, but has very low productivity. Increasing attention to the countryside implies a significant increase in investment in this sector, especially foreign ones. The reform of China has gone through five stages, each of which had its own specific purpose, timing, detailed testing by previous field experiments with a clear definition of future actions on the results of the positive results, which were mounted in the new programs. In the agrarian sphere, this manifested itself in the introduction of the family contract system in the agrarian sphere, the reform of the sphere of circulation, the introduction of various forms of trade, the development of hired labor, and so on. This allowed us to test new forms of market recovery and regulation, which a few years after the beginning of the reforms in the countryside were adopted in industry.