The End of the Three Agricultural Issues: Korean Experience and China's Three Agricultural Issues Discussion: Korean Experience and China's Three Agricultural Issues Discussion

Author: Shi Lei
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The book starts with a clear statement, focusing on how the government can alleviate China's current "" issues through systematic policy adjustments and institutional reforms, ultimately leading to the resolution of these issues. In other words, this book falls within the category of policy research, with a primary emphasis on defining and analyzing policy problems, selecting policy solutions, evaluating the effectiveness of policy implementation, and expressing hopes for the prospects of solving these issues. When analyzing the "" problems, the author places particular importance on the experience of South Korea. When making judgments and drawing conclusions on related issues, the author reminds himself to keep in mind several prerequisites: 1. China's economy has overall entered the mid-stage of industrialization, with some regions already reaching a high level of industrialization. Chinese agriculture has entered the modern agricultural development stage, but the agricultural economy still retains certain characteristics of traditional small-scale farming. Here, "small-scale farming" is not associated with "self-sufficiency" or "the backwardness of farmers," and thus carries no derogatory meaning. 2. The living conditions of Chinese farmers are at their best in history, but their relative status in society is not the best or even relatively good; rather, they constitute the world's largest vulnerable group. 3. Rural China has overall surpassed the subsistence level, but due to historical and institutional reasons, it cannot fully share the benefits of China's rapid economic growth. A significant portion of rural areas is in a state of relative decline, leading to the world's largest urban-rural income gap in modern history.