The reports of China’s18th Party Congress and18th Third Plenary Session clearly state that China’s development should insist on following the theme of scientific development, changing economic growth modes, planning regional economic development, establishing a new system of agricultural management, promoting the fair exchange of urban and rural factors and balancing public recourses allocation. From2010to2014, development strategies of the "Two Plains" agricultural comprehensive development zones in Heilongjiang province have experienced measurable progress. However, the overall development level and growth speed are relatively low, and imbalanced development of different areas within the zones becomes a crucial factor impeding the improvement. This development plan of the "Two Plains" agricultural comprehensive development zones launched by the Heiongjiang provincial government is aimed at stimulating economic growth, coordinating rural production relations, deepening the optimization and restructuring of rural production factors and achieving a synergetic regional development at a higher level.In the study of the current development status of Heilongjiang’s agricultural comprehensive development zones, theoretical and policy bases beneficial to the development of agricultural development zones are raised after specifying the definition of the development zone and public policy. After describing and analyzing the development plan, current policies and current development status, we can find that policy deficiencies affecting the development of agricultural comprehensive development zones include improper industrial structures, rigid fiscal taxation policies, inadequate agricultural financial systems, and an imperfect innovation system, etc.Learning from relevant policies from developed countries like the US, Germany, Japan and South Korea and from many Chinese agricultural sci-tech demonstration gardens including Shanghai Sunqiao, Xi’an Yangling, Shandong Shouguang, and Jiangsu Changshu, policies of Heilongjiang province can be improved in terms of environmental protection, water infrastructure maintenance, grain subsidy improvement, financing system diversification, scientific innovation system construction and agricultural talents cultivation. Suggestions are raised from the aspects of industrial policy, fiscal taxation policy, monetary policy and science and technology policy in order to assist the implementation and further development of strategies of the agricultural comprehensive development zones. Industrial policies include improving grain-supply safety, optimizing industrial structures, and constructing agricultural infrastructure, etc. Fiscal taxation policies include improving fiscal subsidy, increasing policy funds, and regulating taxation system, etc. Monetary policies consist of innovating agricultural financial service system, satisfying financial service demand, and extending financing channel, etc. Science and technology policies include constructing the technological and service system, improving the ability of agricultural workers, and building agricultural information communication platforms, etc. |