Agricultural Supply-Side Structural Reform and Path Optimization: Evidence from China

Yun Shi; Maurice Osewe; Chebet Anastacia; Aijun Liu; Shutao Wang; Abdul Latif

doi:10.3390/ijerph20010113

Agricultural Supply-Side Structural Reform and Path Optimization: Evidence from China

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 22;20(1):113. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20010113.

Authors

Yun Shi¹, Maurice Osewe², Chebet Anastacia², Aijun Liu^{2

3}, Shutao Wang⁴, Abdul Latif²

Affiliations

¹ College of Landscape & Tourism, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding 071001, China.
² College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
³ Jin Shanbao Institute for Agriculture and Rural Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang, Nanjing 210095, China.
⁴ College of Land Resources, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding 071001, China.

Abstract

The agricultural sector's supply-side reform is fundamental to ensuring food security and social stability. This paper uses a comprehensive analysis method to reflect on China's agricultural reform from 1970 to 2020. We observe that China's agriculture made significant progress before 2020 due to preferential policies and demographic dividends. This production-oriented mode has led to the co-existence of overstocking, the rapid growth of imports, and ecological degradation. A follow-up survey acknowledged that rural complex is a comprehensive social network with substantial radiant effect involving government-sponsored projects, sector-specific programs, corporate and societal assistance. The sustainable development of the rural complex lies in industrial planning, system restructuring, and institutional arrangement. Therefore, this article anchors its system structure under the ESG principle and green development philosophy. It diversifies the agro-economy to advance digitalization and de-carbonization of the rural economy.

Keywords: ESG; agriculture reform; food security; rural complex; rural revitalization; system restructuring; technology innovation.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Agriculture*
China
Demography
Humans
Rural Population*

Grants and funding

This research study was supported by “The National Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number 71673274 and 72141012”, “the Fundamental Research Funds for Hebei Provincial Universities, granted No. KY2021128”, “Jiangsu Social Science Association Project, grant number 22SCB -03”, “Jiangsu University Philosophy and Social Science Foundation, grant number 2021SJZDA 028”, “2021 NJAU Graduate Teaching Resource Projects, grant number 77”. We sincerely thank Flower and Fruit Rural Complex in Qianxi, Hebei Province, for the case study.