Household Contract Management System And Agricultural Modernization Path Selection

Household contract management system is one of the last century, China’s rural reform in the 1980s great initiative operating system. So far, the household contract system remains to solve the "three rural" issue, the institutional basis to achieve agricultural modernization. In recent years, many researchers believe that small-scale agricultural operations under the household contract system hindered the process of agricultural modernization, and therefore should be abolished overall. Many local governments have to realize agricultural modernization understood as absolute area of large-scale land operation, the small-scale agricultural production as an obstacle to promoting agricultural modernization. So, the household contract system really is not compatible with the modernization of agriculture? How should recognize the positive role of the family contract system for agricultural modernization? How to make it adhere to the development of innovation on the basis of this system, thereby continue to play to the advantages of the system?This paper first reviews the basic theory of the household contract system, combined with an analysis of rural reform study of Chinese history and current reality, including the property rights system analysis, the author’s basic judgments and conclusions:the household contract responsibility system in China’s rural operation system explore the practice of reform and modernization of agriculture produce and evolve, for the realization of China’s rural modernization of great significance. At the same time, the household contract system should be developed along with the development of social productivity. Household contract system reform can be carried out in many ways, the focus of reform should focus on agricultural land and agricultural land property rights system reform and business forms.In this paper, how the household contract system reform and improvement in order to achieve agricultural modernization made a series of clear-cut view and theoretical and empirical analysis; clearly stated that the purpose of the reform of the household contract system, made facing the household contract system the real difficulties and needs reform; combining the actual situation of China’s household contract system reforms made to adhere to the family as the main micro agricultural production, development of different policies in accordance with the actual situation in the region and respect the choice of the farmers. The basic elements of reform include:improving land property rights system, giving farmers the right to operate long-term stability of the contract; improve the land requisition system; giving mortgage empowerment of farmers’ land management rights. Innovative land use systems, and explore new forms of economic cooperation.Empirical analysis in this paper uses the data of five major agricultural province in China, conducted its degree of realization of the evaluation of agricultural modernization, testing the effectiveness of the five provinces household contract system reform practice, come to the land ownership system innovation, agricultural production in the form of innovation helps to promote agricultural modernization conclusions. Finally, the reform of the household contract system thus promoting agricultural modernization feasible suggestions put forward a number of prospects.