| The actual use of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China’s agricultural sectors have reached$2.06billion in2012, indicating that China has a strong attractive for multinational companies in agriculture. With the broad prospects of attracting FDI in agriculture, in2012, the State Council promulgated the "National Modern Agriculture Development Plan (2011-2015)", which clearly states the need to "speeding up the introduction of agricultural technology absorption and innovation pace, strengthening international cooperation in science and technology in agriculture; Improving agricultural research conditions, adjusting and optimizing the layout of agricultural research, strengthening agricultural research base and key laboratory construction, improving agricultural technology innovation system and modern agricultural technology system, starting the implementation of agricultural science and technology innovation capacity-building projects", and "raising the level of opening of agriculture, using multiple and bilateral and regional cooperation mechanism to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in agricultural science and technology, and increasing efforts to attract investment talent recruitment, improving agricultural utilization of foreign capital, continuing with good foreign preferential loans and grants, increasing the introduction and absorption intensity of advanced and applicable technologies and equipments". In this context, this dissertation aims to study on the effect mechanisms of FDI on the host country’s agriculture productivity, and the actual performance of Chian’s agriculture.However, literatures studing the effects of FDI on productivity have been focused on manufacturing or services sectors, while the researches on the perspective of agriculture combining the characteristics of agricultural development can be described as very few. Therefore, this dissertation studying the agricultural productivity effects of FDI has important theoretical significance. On the other hand, it lags behind for China’s agricultural technology level, and the gap with the developed countries is still large. Especially, the technologies of agricultural biotechnology, bio-pesticides, large farm machinery, agricultural products quality testing equipment, veterinary medicine, agricultural products deep processing and agricultural products storage preservation techniques are needed to improve urgently. These core technologies have been monopolized by multinational corporations, whether the FDI flowing into the host country’s agriculture can enhance the level of agricultural science and technology, is a realistic problem. The main contents of the dissertation are as follows:The first chapter is introduction. Based on the important role of agriculture in the national economy, as well as the sensitive issues of the FDI use in agriculture, this chapter proposes the theoretical and practical significance, the main ideas and research methods, and the comments on the current status and the lack of existing research related to the relationship between FDI and productivity.The second chapter is the relevant theoretical basis. According to the core content of this dissertation, the relevant theories are economic growth, total factor productivity spillover and international direct investment.The third chapter is about China’s use of FDI in agriculture. The development processes of FDI using in the agricultural sectors is divided into four stages, that is start, steady development, rapid development and scientific development, and the characteristics of each stage are summarized; Analyzing the scale change of China’s agriculture FDI by contrast with other industries; Analyzing the structure status of China’s agricultural FDI from three aspects:source countries, agriculture internal departments (agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries) and domestic regional differences (east, central and west); Analyzing the evolution of agricultural FDI mode through data analysis.The fourth Chapter is measurement of China’s agricultural productivity, and its spatial and temporal characteristics. Taking into account the differences between regions is relatively large, and should not set a uniform production function; this chapter chooses non-parametric DEA-Malmquist productivity index method. When construcing the best production practice frontier, mainly use the sequential rather than the traditional standard DEA method in order to avoid the appearance of technical setbacks outcomes existing in literatures. Based on this measurement framework, we can get the provinces Malmquist productivity index (TFP index). Finally, the characteristics of overall time trends and inter-provincial differences of Chin’s agricultural productivity are analyzed.The fifth chapter is theoretical mechanism analysis of the agricultural productivity effects of FDI. Based on the existing researches, this chapter analyzes the effects mechanisms of FDI on the agricultural productivity from the theoretical perspective, mainly including four aspects:the direct effect of technology transfer, and the indirect effects of "learning by doing", technology spillovers and R&D internationalization. Also some of the possible negative effects of FDI on agriculture are analyzed.The sixth chapter is the empirical evidence of effects of FDI on productivity in China’s agriculture. This chapter explains the impact of FDI on TFP, technological progress, technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency in agricultural sectors by constructing the reasonably econometric model; further use31Chinese provinces’panel data and fixed effects technology to estimate parameters; In order to examine the general laws and inter-provincial differences between FDI and productivity in China’s agricultural, respectively estimate parameters for the full sample and sub-regional samples (Eastern, Central and Western), which helps to get rich conclusion with more economic significance.The seventh chapter is the conclusions and policy recommendations. This chapter makes some suggestions on how to promote agricultural productivity through agricultural FDI based on the analysis of the previous chapters. For example, we can make full use of existing agricultural resources, increase rural education investment, improve human capital, and increase R&D and scientific research, and so on.
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