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The connotation and path of modernization of Chinese characteristic agriculture

2025-10-17   

Accelerating agricultural modernization is a major task for comprehensively building a modern socialist country and a necessary requirement for achieving high-quality development. General Xi Jinping pointed out, "Without modernization of agriculture and rural areas, there will be no modernization of the whole country," and "The basic requirement for building an power is to realize agricultural modernization." These important statements profoundly expound the position and role of agricultural modernization in the overall construction of Chinese-style modernization, systematically major theoretical and practical questions such as why and how to promote agricultural modernization in the new era, and provide fundamental guidance for developing modern agriculture and building an agricultural power

Deeply understand the Chinese characteristics of agricultural modernization
From a worldwide perspective, agricultural modernization exhibits certain common characteristics, but is no universal standard or model for promoting it. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "the powerful agricultural country and agricultural modernization that we want to build not only share the common of foreign generally powerful modern agricultural countries, but also have Chinese characteristics based on our national conditions." Based on the long-term exploration and practice since the founding of New China, since the reform and opening up, and with the innovative breakthroughs in theory and practice after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have embarked a path of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics. This path has a rich connotation.
Relied on the dual-tier management system. No development model can be separated the corresponding system. The basic management system for promoting agricultural modernization in our country is the dual-tier management system based on family contract management and combining unified and decentralized management. practice, this system has super adaptability and developability, and it has played a key role in the rural management system for a long time. In the past 40 years China's rural reform has been deepening continuously, and the dual-tier management system has also been continuously innovating and improving. The forms of realization and combination of "un" and "decentralized" are more diversified. The dual-tier management system, which combines unified and decentralized management, is in line with China's national conditions and conditions, has the basic institutional advantages of liberating and developing rural productive forces, and is an important support for accelerating agricultural modernization.
Always uphold the status of farmers as the main body. The fundamental issue concerning the driving force and of agricultural modernization is for whom and relying on whom. A significant feature of China's efforts to modernize agriculture is to highlight the status of farmers as the main body and their will, always putting the protection of farmers' interests at the top priority. In practice, it is the insistence on the status of farmers as the main body and the improvement their wellbeing as the starting and ending points for all rural work, and the support and endorsement of farmers as the basis for the formulation of the Party's rural policies, that fullyizes the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the vast majority of farmers. Farmers become participants, supporters, and beneficiaries of agricultural modernization, and China's agricultural modernization has established the most solid foundation and the most profound strength.
Effective market and proactive government coordination. The process of agricultural modernization in China is also a process in which government and the market are in their proper places and work together to promote it. In the process of improving the policy system and market system, the relationship between the government and the market been continuously coordinated and optimized. In particular, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the progress of major reforms such as the price formation mechanism for products and the rural collective property rights system, and the continuous improvement of the policy system to strengthen, benefit, and enrich farmers have effectively activated the market, factors, and entities, have become the driving force for the accelerated development of agricultural modernization. At the same time, the rural market system has been continuously improved, the system of agricultural product circulation, pricing of agricultural products, and the market regulation mechanism have been continuously improved, the reform of market-oriented allocation of factors has been gradually promoted, and the efficiency of market operation has continuously improved, which has promoted the accelerated transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture to modern agriculture.
Coexistence of "big" and "small" management forms for a long time Family management with small farmers as the main body is the main form of agricultural management in China and a reality that must be faced in the long run for agricultural development. In the process promoting agricultural modernization, China has not adopted a single large-scale operation and large-scale mechanized operation model, but has adhered to the principle that the scale of agricultural should be large when it should be large and small when it should be small, neither blindly pursuing large-scale, nor sticking to small-scale, and at the same time, the "big" and "small" are coordinated and integrated, through the leading role of large-scale management entities, small farmers can also be organically connected with the development modern agriculture. In practice, there are advantages to large-scale agricultural production and small-scale management is also adaptable. They play different and important roles in promoting agricultural modernization
Integration of cultural heritage and green development. China has a long history of agricultural civilization, and its concepts such as "harmony between man and nature" are highly consistent the concepts of harmony, low carbon, and other concepts that are advocated today. In the process of promoting agricultural modernization, we insist on drawing from the historical heritage of agricultural civilization the contemporary requirements of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, fully implement the project of inheriting and protecting agricultural culture, continuously promote the comprehensive green transformation of agricultural development, the empowering role of agricultural culture is constantly emerging, the level of agricultural green development is significantly improved, and new formats and new models of the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism to emerge. The inheritance and development of excellent agricultural culture have provided rich nourishment for China's efforts to promote agricultural modernization

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