Abstract:

Accelerating agriculture’s modernization and internationalization process is an important strategy of Chinese agriculture’s development in the 21st century. The transition from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture worldwide is divided into four stages, namely, the period for investment in agriculture, the period for agricultural resources’outflow, the period for the integration of agriculture and macroeconomic, and the period for feeding agriculture. The four stages theory in lnternational agricultural development reflects the process of agricultural modernization, that is, in a transition process from the traditional business module to modern business module within a country. In the comparative analysis perspective, this paper attempts to use the four stages theory to understand the current stage and the main features of China's agricultural development of countries in recent years to understand a series of strategies and policies which have been implemented to support and benefit rural households, and to understand the long-term goal Agriculture for Development better.