Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese Agriculture: Feeding Many While Protecting the Environment (China and Globalization 2.0)

This book elaborates on the transformation of agricultural development in China into the construction of a "resource and ecologically sound society", and the coordinated development of industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization in China. It focuses on the multiple goals of transforming the Chinese agricultural development model, inner motivations, approaches, and supporting systems under environmental and resource constraints. The author endeavors to build a theoretical framework for transforming agricultural development model in the construction of a "resource and ecologically sound society". To achieve this, the author addresses successively across seven chapters issues such as the multiple goals of Chinas agricultural development transformation under resource and environmental constraints, the transformation of the utilization mode of resources, "resource and ecologically sound agriculture"--Oriented agricultural production system transformation, the transformation of commercialized rural service system, and institutional innovations in the "resource and ecologically sound" agricultural transformation. Wensheng Chen is a Research Professor at the Hunan Academy of Social Sciences, China. He is the Dean of Hunan Rural Development Institute, Principal Scholar of the Program of New Socialist Countryside Construction Research in Hunan Province, China, and Guest Professor of East China University of Science and Technology Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Prolegomenon (Wensheng Chen)....Pages 1-15 Agricultural Development Mode: Relevant Theoretical Research at Home and Abroad (Wensheng Chen)....Pages 17-67 The Transformation of China’s Agricultural Development with Multiple Goals Under Resource and Environmental Constraints (Wensheng Chen)....Pages 69-123 The Transformation of the Utilization Mode of Elements and Resources with the Agro-scientific and Technological Innovations at the Core (Wensheng Chen)....Pages 125-182 The Transformation of Agricultural Production System in Line with “Resource and Ecologically Sound Agriculture” (Wensheng Chen)....Pages 183-340 The Transformation of Commercialized Rural Service System with Taking Agricultural Informatization as a Breakthrough (Wensheng Chen)....Pages 341-417 The Institutional Innovation of the “Resource and Ecologically Sound” Transformation of Agriculture (Wensheng Chen)....Pages 419-509 Back Matter ....Pages 511-528