Impact On The Enterpriselization Of China's Agricultural R&D Institutes

The enterpriselization of China's agricultural R&D institutes (ECARDI) brings some positive effects on China's agricultural R&D system. The market oriented agricultural R&D activities has been reinforced. Agricultural R&D investment also increased for some enterpriselized China's agricultural R&D institutes (EDCARDI) and the science and technology outputs also increased. The mechansim of ARDI has been improved. However, the enterpriselization was not very sucecessful and met with handicaps. The ECARDI also shed negative impacts on China's agricultural R&D system. The EDCARDI faced with R&D shortage and led to agricultural R&D activites nonstable. Some excellent reseracheres has already left the EDCARDI and it is becoming worse. The ECARDI also leads to R&D-biase, especially short-termmism. It is worried that ECARDI will finally result to insufficient supply of agricultural technoligies.The handicaps and the negative impacts alert that the reform framwork need to be changed. This study suggests that it is essential to maintain a stable agricultural R&D system and to be cautious to impmement the ECARDI in next step. Government has to increaes public R&D investment and maintian the agricultural R&D system fair and clean. Public agricutural R&D also need to remediate the bias of prive agricultural R&D activities. Supporting measures also need to be reinforced.