Yao Shurong, Leng Wenru
China Review of Political Economy.
2025, 16(3):
176-189.
Building an agricultural power is an inherent requirement of Chinese modernization. Compared to globally recognized agricultural powers, China faces significant gaps in critical indicators such as agricultural resource endowments, crop yield per unit area, and agricultural labor productivity. Accelerating the development of new quality productive forces, overcoming constraints imposed by agricultural resource endowments limitations and enhancing crop yields and labor productivity through original, disruptive, and cutting-edge technological innovations, represents an effective pathway to address the shortcomings in constructing an agricultural power. However, the formation of new quality productive forces necessitates the establishment of corresponding new relations of production. Within the institutional framework that constrains the development of agricultural new quality productive forces, land institutions hold a foundational role, exerting systemic and pivotal influence. To this end, reforms should prioritize aligning land institutions with the demands of advancing new quality productive forces. Key measures include advancing market-oriented allocation reforms for industrial land, refining the rural land property rights transfer system, establishing mechanisms to revitalize collective construction land, and enhancing the innovation-incentivizing function of cultivated land protection policies. These steps aim to foster synergistic evolution between land institution reforms and technological innovation, thereby accelerating the construction of an agricultural power.