On agricultural modernization route with Chinese characteristics: principal contradictions and countermeasures.

The article analyzed the scientific connotation of the agricultural modernization route with Chinese characteristics from the aspects of its resources constraints,ecological environment,main tasks,institutional improvement,rural operating system,productivity level,technological level,agricultural equipment,human capital,and the international environment.Analyzed the characteristics of China's national conditions and the current state of agricultural development with respects to food production,level of agricultural mechanization,the contribution of agricultural science and technology,agricultural labor productivity and land productivity,market competitiveness,the commercialization of agricultural products,and the increasing of peasant’s income.Then the article systematically summed up six principal contradictions in China's agricultural modernization process,such as the contradictions between agricultural infrastructure needs and the limited financial and social resources,extensive agricultural development and resources constraints,agricultural efficiency and food security,agricultural operating system and industrialization process,science and technology investment and the international competitiveness of agricultural products,as well as contradictions between the quality and demand of peasant human capital.The countermeasures presented include,enhance the agricultural supporting and protective system,advance the construction of rural market and rural socialized service system,promote the agricultural scientific and technological progress and independent innovation,strengthen the innovation of the forms of agricultural operation,and improve human capital in agricultural sector.