Research On Our Country's Pro& Agriculture Issues

Agriculture is basis for national economy. Agricultural and rural economic development has a bearing on the survival and development of our country's 900 million rural population, on the whole national economic development, and what is more, on the stability of the whole society and on the construction of socialist harmonious society, so it is of great strategic significance. Currently, on the whole, our country has entered the historical stage of promoting agriculture with industry, bringing along rural area with urban area, industry feeding back agriculture. Solutions to the"sannong"problems, rapid growth of agriculture and rural economy have played an important backup role in sustaining national economy's stable and fast growth and social stability. However, our country's agricultural infrastructure is fragile, rural social undertakings have fallen behind in terms of development, and the conflict of widening gap between urban and rural residents'incomes is still severe. How to solve these problems and promote the construction of socialist new countryside in the pragmatic manner remains to be an important task during the 11th five-year plan period. Financial input is an important base for the urban and rural economic construction and the development of various social undertakings. Financial pro-agriculture policies are our country's main financial policies to support and protect agriculture. Financial pro-agriculture expenditures will have a direct impact on and determine financial policy effects. With constant reforms of financial and taxation systems, public financial frameworks have preliminarily set up. It is the key to make in-time adjustment and optimize financial pro-agriculture policies, further expand public finance coverage in the countryside, and set up pro-agriculture capital stable growth mechanisms.Guided by important ideologies such as Marxism, Leninism, Mao Zedong Thoughts, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and"three represents", referring overseas advanced experience in pro-agriculture finance, this paper makes some in-depth study of current economic situations of Chinese countryside, examines China's current financial pro-agriculture policies, discusses existing problems of financial pro-agriculture policies and the causes of these problems, researches on how finance can adjust and optimize pro-agriculture policies to promote agriculture economic returns, increase farmers'incomes and develop rural areas, and proposes an overall thinking and concrete countermeasures so as to put forward suggestions on financial pro-agriculture issues in our country, and on specific and operable policies.This paper is composed of four parts, and they are:Part I discusses significances of relevant financial pro-agriculture theories and our country's financial pro-agriculture problems. It introduces western scholars'theories, such as the theories on public finance expenditure increase in economic growth stages proposed by Rosto and Musgrave, Keynes's demand management theory, and relevant theories on rural public products, etc. It expounds the great significance of our country's financial pro-agriculture policies in five aspects such as agriculture as basis of national economy and fragile features of agriculture, great risks in agriculture for agricultural production operations and special characteristics of agricultural products in demand and supply; meeting challenges...