| Sustainable Development is an unavoidable historical choice for the economic and social evolution, and Recycle Economy is a vital approach to attain the sustainable development. The concept of Agricultural Sustainability was firstly proposed by Gordan Douglas in 1984. Since then, both academic scholars and governmental decision makers have attached great importance on it. In practice, due to the different situations and understandings in different countries, different modes or patterns develop which result in different effects.The diversities of the Sustainable Agricultural Development (SAD) strategy in different countries prove us that there exist logical relationships between resource attributes, strategy selections and economic performances——resource attributes decide the modes of strategy selections and their economic performances. The variety of resource attributes and the subsequent differences of industrial characteristics and transaction structure resulted bring about the diversified modes of strategy selections worldwide. The diversified modes of strategy selections related to resource attributes will result in different economic performances. Based on the logical relationships mentioned above, the paper aims to integrate some theories of modern economics, e.g., organizational behavior economic theory, to construct a theoretical analysis framework of the Resource attributes—Strategy selections—Economic performances (RSE theoretic model) about the performances analysis on resource utilization, and makes an empirical study on its application to Guangdong's Sustainable Agricultural Development.After the definitions on some basic concepts and assumptions, the current research is unfolded based on the internal logic chain of the RSE theoretical analysis framework.Firstly, the demonstrative research of Guangdong's SAD has been conducted. The primary task is to identify the resource attributes, strategy selections and economic performances of the SAD of Guangdong province; to develop the correspondent assessment indicators hierarchy and the evaluation model based on Recycle Economy theory to evaluate the SAD status in Guangdong. The assessment indicators hierarchy consists of three layers:on the top is the Objective Layer, in the middle is the Principle Layer, which is composed by Agricultural Economic Sub-system, Rural Community Sub-system and Agricultural Ecological Sub-system, and at the bottom is the Indicator Layer, which is further composed by fifteen indicators categorized into three groups. The evaluation result indicates that the level of Guangdong's SAD varies distinctly from 1995 to 2004. Meanwhile, a climbing trend is found.Secondly, the empirical research of Guangdong's regional SAD has been conducted. Different characters of regional SAD in Pearl-River Delta, the western and eastern areas, the provincial mountainous area have been discovered. The regional SAD of Heyuan Dengta Basin, representing the typical mountainous area's regional SAD, has the following three significant characteristics: 1) Development orientation, which is further unfolded in terms of the macroscopic level, the microcosmic level and the intermediate-view. At the macroscopic level, it plays the role of organic foods production base for Guangdong province, Hong Kong S.A.R and Macao S.A.R. From the intermediate-view, it is not only the demonstration window of modern agriculture in Guangdong mountainous area, but also the supporting base of the area-variant agriculture in the Pearl-River Delta. At the microscopic level, it is the core area of the modern agricultural development in Heyuan city. 2) The roadmap of SAD in Dengta Basin. The sustainable agricultural development in this area is following the approach of One Focus, Two Engineering Projects, Three Grand-circle layers, and Ten Leading Products. 3) The development modes which comprise of the ecological agriculture and the ecological agriculture hierarchy.Thirdly, this paper probes into two case studies respectively. Three revelations can be extracted in the first case study for the SAD in the United States as follows: (1) Construct the new mode of SAD based on the comprehensive understanding of the resource distribution geographically; (2) Adopt different policies according to different regional economical development level; (3) Converting the government's role, to develop, improve the policy hierarchy that supports the SAD. The second Recycle Economy case study is the SAD in Jianggao's integrating the high-grade Yellow Chicken livestock industry. Similarly, it reveals the variant characteristics in the following three areas as 1) Development orientation, in which four levels were identified, the pillar industry in Jianggao, the agricultural flagship enterprise in Guangzhou, the notable agricultural development enterprise in Guangdong, and the development pilot of the fine-quality Yellow Chicken livestock industry in China. 2) The typical SAD strategy, which includes the entire food safety process control from the seeds, fields to the table, the collaborating investment from both government and enterprise, as well as the development strategies of sustainable development at the level of ecology, economy and society. 3) The development pattern has shifted to"the notable enterprise + association+ production base + farmer"from"the company + farmer".On the basis of the typical case studies listed above, the thesis has concluded the basic trend of SAD in Guangdong province as follows: 1) The technological trend, which is mainly characterized by the advanced agricultural technicalization 2) The Development trend, which could be depicted as 5 orientations, namely, the food agriculture, the benefit agriculture, the ecological agriculture, the export-oriented agriculture and the urban agriculture.Therefore, the study further proposes six executable options and seven strategic actions for the Guangdong's SAD. The seven strategic actions are: 1) Improving the understanding of the Recycle Economy implementation, and the sustainable development in agriculture and rural areas; 2) Handling industry and agriculture, urban and rural, economic development and environmental protection, natural relations properly, to facilitate the collaborative and balanced development of economy, society and the natural environment; 3) Promoting the scientific and technological progress in agriculture and rural area; 4) Optimizing the structure of the agricultural production, developing the export-oriented agriculture; 5) Promoting agricultural infrastructure and ecological construction, and improving the defensive capacity for agricultural disasters; 6) Promoting the sustainable green consumption; and 7) Strengthening the system construction of the laws and regulations.
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