| It's well known that the development of agriculture is far behind that of industry though agriculture is the foundation industry in China. So the implement of the "industry supports agriculture, city supports country" policy is especially important in promoting the balance development between industry and agriculture, city and country. Meanwhile, due to the lack of ample resources, proper environment and mature market, the regional developments of agriculture among the country are also far from balanced, which restricts the effectiveness of agriculture comparison advantage, hence limits the stable increase of farmers' income. Although Chinese government noticed the essential importance of agriculture, little research has been done on the regional difference among agriculture so far. Therefore, studying the region characteristic of agricultural support polices is becoming urgently important, which is the basic motivation of this thesis.This research uses the theory of Producer Support Estimate Developed by OECD, analyses the difference of agricultural support among different regions by quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis. The findings in this research conclude: first, generally the agricultural support level in east, middle, west regions of China is lower than enough. Fortunately, it is growing year by year; second, east regions provide more support than middle and west regions due to better local finance, so the level of agricultural support of east regions is higher than national average support; third, local governments in middle regions pay more attention to agricultural development than those in west regions, so they provide more favorable policies to agriculture. In addition, their financial dependency on agriculture is higher than other regions. Based on the above conclusions, author offers some effective policy suggestions in the last part of this research. |
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