China is making great efforts to develop modern agriculture. In the future, farmers' income is higher than that of cities and towns.

On the evening of December 1, Dai Xiaofeng, director of the Agricultural products processing Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, was interviewed by reporters on the eve of Jinan's participation in the national agricultural products processing science and technology innovation and promotion activities and agricultural products processing technology achievements fair.

Chinanews.com, Dec. 7 (Reporter Zhang Yanling) "in the future, China's agricultural products processing industry will usher in a blowout development, which is expected to become China's first global monopoly industry, and agriculture will become a wealth-creating industry. Farmers' income will be higher than that of urban residents. And all this will be achieved in 2049, which is our goal. " Dai Xiaofeng, director of the Agricultural products processing Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said in an interview with the China net "Deep Reading" reporter on the eve of Jinan's participation in the national agricultural products processing science and technology innovation and promotion activities and agricultural products processing technology trade fair.

China is in a critical period of transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture.

What is the state of modern agriculture in China? According to Dai Xiaofeng, China's modern agriculture was put forward after China's per capita GDP exceeded 1000 US dollars in 2000. Before that, it was traditional agriculture, corresponding to agricultural society, agricultural economy, and agricultural farmers. Modern agriculture is a new industry characterized by the whole industrial chain of agricultural products processing industry and related fresh-keeping logistics and social service industry, with agricultural products processing as the main symbol.

Dai Xiaofeng said: modern agriculture is the product of industrialization and urbanization, and it is a new business type after human society entered the era of industrial economy, industrial society, industrial civilization, and urban civilization. It is of cross-era significance and is different from the concept and connotation of traditional agriculture.

Modern agriculture has several obvious characteristics: first, the urbanization rate should reach more than 80%. At the end of last year, the urbanization rate in our country was 54%, which is still a long way from the urbanization rate of 80%. Second, it depends on the proportion of agriculture in the total economic output of a country or region. Traditional agriculture is almost 100%, while the requirement of modern agriculture is reduced to less than 20%. European countries are generally between 3% and 5%, or even 1% or 2%. However, the proportion of our country is more than 30%, which is still quite high. Third, more than 80% of agricultural output value is created by post-natal processing, fresh-keeping, logistics and related social services, and the prenatal part accounts for less than 20%.

"We are still in a critical period of transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture and accelerating development. When China's per capita reaches 10,000 US dollars, it marks a decisive step for our country to take a decisive step from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture." Dai Xiaofeng told China net "Deep Reading" reporter.

Seven major directions such as staple food industrialization determine the future of agricultural products processing industry.

One of the most important factors to determine whether to successfully enter modern agriculture is the agricultural product processing industry. How will it develop in the next step to promote China to enter the stage of modern agriculture as soon as possible? In this regard, Dai Xiaofeng believes that China's agricultural product processing industry should not only learn from the advanced experience of foreign developed countries, but also take into account the national conditions and take the road of development with Chinese characteristics. He said that in the future, efforts should be made in the areas of rough processing of producing areas, staple foods (industrialization of staple foods), echelon utilization of agricultural resources, functional and snack foods, fast food and deeply processed foods.

He said that the production area of rough processing has a large quantity, wide area and great potential, which can be further excavated. Traditional food has a broad prospect of staple food, including staple foods, dishes, local snacks and so on. We have done a good job in making and upgrading China's eight major cuisines and delicacies with food culture and turned them into a nutrition industry. In the coming decades, the industrialization of staple food will have a huge space of more than 10 trillion yuan in China's market alone. The echelon utilization of agricultural resources is to promote the full extraction and utilization of agricultural products, so that one kind of raw materials of agricultural products can create dozens of products, and the output value is created by hundreds of jin, thousands of jin, or even tens of thousands of jin of raw materials of agricultural products in the past. This is conducive to the development of circular economy, protection of the environment and the realization of green and sustainable development.

Agricultural products processing industry will become China's first global monopoly industry

What is the international level of the processing level of China's agricultural products? Will it form a monopoly in the world in the future? In response, Dai Xiaofeng used a set of data to explain the performance of China's agricultural product processing industry: in 2014, there were 455000 agricultural products processing enterprises in China, and the main business income of the agricultural product processing industry above scale was 18.5 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 19.4% over the past 10 years. It accounts for 17% of China's main industrial business income, and pays tax of 1.17 trillion yuan, becoming the basic and strategic pillar industry of our national economy.

"however, China is far ahead in the processing level of agricultural products among the vast number of developing countries, and compared with developed countries, we have a big gap and are still in an initial stage." He confessed.

In view of whether China's agricultural products processing industry can go to the world and become a global monopoly industry? Dai Xiaofeng believes that farmers' household registration reform, farmland reform, land reclamation reform, and agricultural planting structure adjustment will all be reflected in 2016. There are signs that 2016 is destined to be the year of agricultural reform in China. All these bring great opportunities for the agricultural products processing industry, and they are also our ice-breaking journey to solve the predicament of China's agricultural development.

He believes that China's agricultural product processing industry has good technology, and there is a rich labor force in the industry that can make Chinese food. In addition, Chinese people around the world have let Chinese food be recognized by the people of the world, so that the agricultural product processing industry has begun to take shape in the world. The next 30 years will be the strategic opportunity period, golden period and critical period for the development of this industry. Because in this process, the development of China's agricultural processing industry can release huge market vitality, which is a process of creating explosive wealth. It can be predicted that in the future, if we can fully grasp the strategic opportunity of "Belt and Road Initiative" and give it key support as a national strategy and priority area, China's agricultural product processing industry will certainly usher in a blowout development, which is expected to be within 5-10 years. Turn it into an industry as famous as China's silk 2000 years ago, ceramics 1000 years ago, spices and tea 500 years ago It has become the first global monopoly industry to create the largest output value since the founding of New China.

On the future of China's modern agriculture, Dai Xiaofeng said: "Farmers will not be farming the land, but planting RMB all over the land." The income of farmers will be higher than that of urban residents, and agriculture will become a wealth-creating industry. And all this will be achieved in 2049, which is our goal. "