中国是一个农业大国，农业、农村和农民问题一直贯穿着中国历史的发展。新中国成立后，农业、农村和农民问题更是中国共产党和中国政府全部工作中的“重中之重”。读懂中国农业、农村和农民，是读懂中国历史和文化的起点，也是理解当代中国经济社会现状的逻辑原点。本书分四章，分别从悠久的中国农业文明、新中国成立至20世纪80年代对中国农业农村发展道路的艰难探索、改革开放至21世纪初中国农村巨变、新世纪以来中国强农惠农富农政策体系的建立等方面梳理了中国农业在各历史时期的发展、面临的困难及政策举措。全书架构清晰、分析客观、数据翔实、史料丰富，在有限的篇幅内用尽量大众化的语言为读者展现出一幅中国农业发展的长卷。从源头为读者释义中国农业发展的脉络及目前发展状况，解答了中国“三农”问题为何关系国家发展、经历了哪些发展过程及今后如何发展。

  

Foreword
Chapter 1 China's Time-honored Agi：icultural Civilization
Section 1 The Origin and Creation of Chinese Agriculture
Section 2 The Oriental Mindset and Four Millennia of Agriculture
Section 3 The Main Agricultural Systems in Ancient ChIna
Chapter 2 PainfuIExploration of Agriculturaland Rural Development
Section 1 New China： Dirt Poor and All to Be Done
Section 2 Rural Land Reform： Striking Where It Hurt
Section 3 Formation of the State Monopoly on Purchasing and Marketing System
Section 4 The Cooperation Movement and the People's Commune System
Section 5 Why China Chose the Development Path of Rural Collective Land Ownership
Chapter 3 Huge RuralChanges： From Reformand Opening Up to the Turn of the New Millennium/iis
Section 1 Agricultural Production Returned to Farming Households
Section 2 Gradual Revival of the Market Mechanism for Farm Produce
Section 3 Boom in Rural Economy Under Multiple Ownership Systems
Section 4 From Rural Labor to Human Capital
Chapter 4 Establishment of the Policy System to Boost Agriculture， Benefit Farmers， and Increase Their Incomes in the New Millennium
Section 1 Establishment of "Top Priority ldeology
Section 2 New Campaign to Develop Modern Agriculture
Section 3 Great Efforts to Increase Farmers'Incomes
Section 4 Building a New Soist Countryside
Section 5 Resolutely Fighting for Victory in the Battle Against Poverty
Section 6 Better Protection of Farmers' Land-Centered Property Rights
Section 7 Establishing Institutions for Integrated Urban and Rural Development
Section 8 Improving the Rural Governance Mechanism
Section 9 Outlook for the Future Development of China's Agriculture and Rural Areas
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