Agricultural development has entered a new stage of information guidance.

At the 2015 China Agricultural Outlook Conference, the Market early warning expert Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture formally issued the China Agricultural Outlook report (2015-2024), which became a milestone in China's agricultural informatization construction. it indicates that relying on information to guide agricultural development has entered a new stage, and it is a major innovation for agricultural management to adapt to the development of marketization, informatization and internationalization. It is also an important measure to further improve the modern agricultural management system.

Agricultural outlook is an important regulation and control means to study and judge the changes of supply and demand situation of agricultural products market in the future, and to guide agricultural production, consumption and trade activities by releasing market signals. Holding an agricultural outlook conference and issuing an outlook report is an important way to use market signals to guide the production and consumption of agricultural products and to play a role in market allocation of resources. it is a common practice for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United States, Australia and other developed countries to manage agriculture.

Since 2002, the construction of agricultural information monitoring and early warning system has stepped into the track of professional development, and has withstood multiple tests such as the transition period of China's accession to the WTO, the international food crisis, the global financial crisis and so on.

Under the new situation, no matter taking the market as the guide to accelerate the transformation of agricultural mode and structure, to promote the construction of modern agriculture with farmers as the main body, or to formulate and implement a good agricultural development strategy and enhance the international competitiveness of agricultural products, there is an urgent need for timely and effective agricultural information to provide guidance, and agricultural monitoring and early warning technology to provide strong support. Under the new normal of economic development, the environment and conditions of China's agricultural development will change accordingly, and there will be many old problems as well as many new contradictions; agricultural development should be planned in the general pattern of global agricultural development. it should also be laid out in the general environment of national economic development. China is a large country in the production and consumption of agricultural products in the world, and there is an urgent need to strengthen the voice of the international market and safeguard the core interests of agriculture. The regular release of agricultural outlook reports has become an important means to highlight the "great power effect".

The openness and transparency of information is the inevitable requirement of the development of market economy and the successful experience of developed countries in long-term practice. Looking forward to the future, the new mechanism of modern service-oriented agricultural management with information guidance service as the core content will be continuously improved, and the process of agricultural informatization will be accelerated.