Deng Xiaoping Agriculture Thought

China has made magnificent achievements since the reform and opening-upwhich began 20 years ago. Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of China's socialistreform and opening drive, had peculiar contributions to our agricultural develop-ment. He Put a series of important thoughts into practice. This paper, presentsthree parts to discuss his hocultura thoughts.The first part analyses the conditions and the process in which Deng formedhis agricultural thoughts. Among the conditions, the change of world situation isthe times basis of his thoughts, the experience of the socialist agricultural develop-ment is the historical basis, Deng's personal practice provides his thoughts withpractice basis. Then the paper discusses the developing process of Deng's agricul-tural thoughs and expounds the course of how the thoughts formed, enriched, andeven developed. The second part analyses the basic contents of Deng's agricultural thoughts.Deng thinks that we should Pay much attention to agriculture and put it in the firstplace. His main ideas aim to speed up the steps of Chinese agricultual modern-ization. He also points out agriculture deveplopment must have "wo leaps" andmust have "two methods". Based on the above principles, Deng put forword a se-ries of thoughs and opinions on the aghculture development.What the last part discusses is the charaeteristics and significance of Deng'sagricutural thoughts.