As socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, China's agricultural and rural development has also ushered into a new stage. How to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation and effectively link them with the overall promotion of rural revitalization? How to strengthen the weak links in agriculture and rural areas and promote balanced development between urban and rural areas? What are the key aspects of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and accelerating the agriculture modernization in rural areas? This book focuses on the above issues and introduces the rural revitalization strategy, modernization of agriculture and rural development from five aspects as new agricultural business entities, rural social security system, rural culture and education, rural governance model, and the construction of beautiful village. On the one hand, the book systematically analyzes the policy evolution of China's rural development and comprehensively displays the great achievements of China's rural reform. On the other hand, it deeply discusses the shortcomings and weaknesses in China's rural development in the new era, and puts forward targeted countermeasures, so as to provide reference for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, modernization of agriculture and rural development.
About Author
Kong Xiangzhi, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University of China, president of the Institute of Chinese Cooperatives, and chief editor of The Chinese Cooperative Economic Review.
As a famous expert in the areas of China's agricultural policies, rural cooperative economy and forestry economy, Professor Kong writes extensively and has published more than 400 academic papers and more than 50 books (including co-authorship). Due to the excellent jobs he has done in teaching and research, he has won a lot of prizes, including Distinguished Teacher Awards in Beijing, Outstanding Achievement Prize on Scientific Research in Higher Education in Humanities and Social Sciences, and so on.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 New-type Agriculture Management Entities： Skeleton and Bridges of a Great Power's Agriculture
Section One Policy Evolution： From Framework to Details
Section Two Institutional Problems Faced by New-type Agriculture Management Entities： From "Connotation" to "Extension"
Section Three Solutions： From "Breadth" to "Depth"
Chapter 2 Rural Social Security Systems： "Fences" and "Barriers" of Farmers' Life
Section One The Development and Effectiveness of Policies
Section Two Seeking Vulnerabilities： From "Framework" to "Main Body"
Section Three Solutions： From "Center" to "Edges"
Chapter 3 Rural Cultural Education： "Power" and "Fuel" of Rural Development
Section One Policy Review： From "Efficiency" to "Fairness"
Section Two Problems to Be Solved
Section Three Some Emerging Trends： From "Quantitative Change" to "Qualitative Change"
Chapter 4 Rural Governance Mode： "Pulse" and "Blood" for Constructing Strong Villages Benefiting farmers
Section One Policy Evolution： From "Correction" to "Integration"
Section Two Seeking for Pearls： From "Partial" to "Whole"
Section Three Making up for Deficiencies： From "Standardization" to "Sublimation"
Chapter 5 The Construction of Beautiful Village： the Basis and Difficulties of Building Livable Villages
Section One Policy Evolution： From "Concept" to "Pattern"
Section Two Rough Analysis： From "Layout" to "Portray"
Section Three Changing the Old Practice： From "Guiding" to "Motivating"
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Preface
The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China points out： "Through long-term efforts of Chinese people， socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era， which is a new historical orientation of China's development." The report also plans the goal and mission of basically realizing modernization by 2035. On this basis， the No.1 document of central government in 2018 puts forward the goal and mission of "achieving decisive progress in rural revitalization and basically realizing the modernization of agriculture and rural development by 2035". Therefore， China's rural areas in the new era are approaching the grand goal of realizing the modernization of agriculture and rural development. Specifically speaking， it has the following characteristics.
