Early Exploration and Contemporary Inspiration of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Modernization
Based on Mao Ze-dong's Discussions on Agricultural Mechanization:Mao Ze-dong's famous assertion that"the future of agriculture fundamentally lies in mechanization",put forward in The Party Correspondence in 1959,is a representative viewpoint of the early exploration of Chinese-style agricultural and rural modernization.Promoting the modernization of agriculture and rural areas with the mechanization of agriculture as the center conforms to the realistic needs of national economic recovery and the inherent requirements of socialist construction in the early stage of New China,embodies the initial conception and quest of the CPC for the modernization of agriculture and rural areas in the Chinese style,contains strict theoretical and practical logic,and abounds in the methodological connotations of carrying forward the historical initiative,focusing on solving fundamental contradictions,and adhering to the priority of developing agriculture and rural areas.In order to accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural country and promote the modernization of agriculture and rural areas in the new era,it is necessary to continue to promote agricultural and rural modernization as a whole,take into account the adjustment of production relations and productive forces,and accelerate the construction of a new type of relations between industry and agriculture as well as between the urban and the rural in the course of Chinese modernization,so as to find a fundamental solution to the problems concerning agriculture,rural areas and farmers.