A Study On Policy Support System For Agriculture In China: From The Perspective Of Low-carbon Economy

A Study on Policy Support System for Agriculture in China: From the Perspective Low-Carbon EconomyThe extreme weather frequently threatening with human beings, and global warming trend enhancing the negetive effect of environment, China's grain security is under unprecedented threat, and sustainable development of agriculture is in a complete haze. In the large backdrop of dealing with climate change and global advocation of low-carbon economics, it has become a theoretical and practical strategic issue to adjust the supporting policy for agricultural economics, and to fulfill the dual goals of promoting low-carbon economic development and protecting agricultural development security. Therefore, both from theoretical and practical perspective, it is of vital importance for us to conduct an in-depth study of the issue of China's agricultural policy support system from a low-carbon economic angle.On base of current relevant documents and the latest researches, from a new perspective of low-carbon economy, this thesis engage in an innovative research on China's agricultural support policy system. At first, we probe into the necessity of construction of China's agricultural supporting measures from the point of low-carbon economics, establish a guiding ideology of Engels'natural dialectics, sustainable development concept and the ecological view of harmony development between man and nature, and clarify the research methods. Then on the low-carbon economic perspective, we elucidate the meaning, objectives and characteristics of agricultural support policies, discuss the Marxist economic theory of ecological agriculture, the western food security theory, market failure theory and the theory of macro-control law, and take them as the theoretical basis of our subject. We also review and analysis the development course of agricultural support policies ever since new China's foundation, trying to find the main problem, to combine the current practice of Chinese rural economy so as to find an opening to the subject. And we refer to the main agricultural support policies in developed countries and regions, especially those of America, Japan, the European Union and Taiwan, compare their policies, trying to get a revelation and according to China's specific national conditions, drawing on the support policy for China's agricultural development. On base of these salutary experience, aiming at the major problems in China's agricultural development, from a low-carbon point, we build a set of operable support policy system for China's agriculture, among which are support policy for sustainable utilization of natural force of land, for low-carbon agriculture, for production of low-carbon farm products, for low-carbon public service for agriculture, with the goal of unification of agricultural growth and climate environmental natural force protection. And we conclude in some safeguard measures for implementation of this system, such as setting up an idea of low-carbon agricultural policy, establishing specialized agencies and security fund, building up a safeguard system for government inputs, going into overdrive for monitoring and inspection, and carrying out regular evaluation.Major innovation to be achieved is trying to build a low carbon-economy-perspective and operable system of agricultural support policies in China, briefly referred to as a low-carbon agricultural support policy system, whose topics include: first, it clarfies support policy for low-carbon use of land nature forces from the economic interpretation of low-carbon use of the land forces of nature, from land set-aside support policy, from land pollution control support policy and from organic fertilizer use support policy; Second, it elaborates low-carbon agricultural production support policy by the certification support policy, credit support policy and fiscal support policy of low-carbon agricultural products; Third, it expounds public services building support policy in enhancement and protection of forest, grasslands and wetlands low-carbon support policy; Fourth,It discusses the carbon sequestration support policy of forestry development on base of content and significance of low-carbon agricultural public service support policies, support policies for development and application of low-carbon agricultural technology, for digital agricluture and for low-carbon agricultural infrastructure construction. The aim of this paper is to adapt to global climate change, to address the challenges coming from low-carbon economy, and to protect agricultural safety.Combing literature shows that, the past researchs on problems of Chinese Agricultural support Policy System, often just view the problem of agricultural development from the start point of the economic cost-benefit, the consequence of which is that, the constructied food support policy, farmers income support policies and new countryside construction support policies will lead to ignorance of environment protection, especially of climate protection, which will necessarily result in more serious climate problems. Up to now, in-depth systematic study and building of China's agriculture support policy system problems from low-carbon economy perspective is still theoretical blind spots.This paper breaks the shackles of traditional agricultural support policies where theoretical cannot totally adapt to practice, combined with the economic policies practice of China Agriculture, absorbing contemporary carbon environmental concepts, linking up latest therories on low carbon economy with concrete problems encountered in China's agriculture practice, and try to set up a policy system that can not only step up agricultural development, but also ensure the sustainability of enviromental capacity. Implementation of the policy system will produce significant economic and ecological benefits, and it will be of important practical significance China to catch the right of talking about carbon in global competition, to reduce carbon emissions pressure in economic development.