2026 Vol.33(4): 1–6    [Abstract] ( 33 )    [PDF 397 KB ] ( 8 )

East-west cooperation is a major strategic initiative of the CPC Central Committee to promote coordinated regional development and common prosperity. The year 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of east-west cooperation and the first year of regularized assistance. Based on the innovative practice of Tianjin Agricultural University, this paper systematically reviews the main approaches and outcomes of agricultural universities in empowering east-west cooperation through science and technology. From three dimensions—goal transformation, model innovation, and subject reshaping—it identifies a collaboration model characterized by “top-level planning, seed dissemination, whole-chain integration, platform empowerment, talent support, and ethnic integration”. It also proposes recommendations for further deepening and upgrading east-west cooperation from four directions: deepening whole-chain empowerment, expanding collaboration dimensions, upgrading collaboration forms, and strengthening collaboration resilience, with a view to providing references for agricultural universities participating in east-west cooperation during the regularized assistance phase.

2026 Vol.33(4): 7–11    [Abstract] ( 19 )    [PDF 463 KB ] ( 1 )

The deep engagement of agricultural universities in “Belt and Road” agricultural cooperation in education is a crucial practical pathway for promoting mutual learning among civilizations, ensuring global food security, and building a community with a shared future for mankind. Tianjin Agricultural University, leveraging its own strengths and distinctive features, has established a dual-track international cooperation framework of “Luban Workshop & Shennong Institute”, contributing a Chinese approach to the cultivation of high-level international agricultural talent. However, universities venturing “outward” face obstacles such as funding bottlenecks, institutional differences, and cultural and language barriers. There is an urgent need to build a diversified and synergistic funding guarantee system, improve the alignment of institutions and mechanisms, and implement systematic cultural adaptation and localization strategies to enhance the capacity and quality of international education.

2026 Vol.33(4): 12–17    [Abstract] ( 15 )    [PDF 543 KB ] ( 1 )

Data elements have become the “new agricultural materials” driving the revitalization of rural industries. However, in Tianjin, there are still problems such as insufficient and lagging data collection in agriculture, severe data silos, and applications mostly remaining at the primary statistical level. The fundamental reasons mainly lie in high equipment and processing costs, the absence of data ownership and standards, and a shortage of digital talents in agriculture. It is suggested to build a diversified financial support system, promote lightweight data collection equipment, introduce local data standards and certification systems, strengthen data security supervision, clarify data ownership, improve revenue distribution, cultivate and introduce digital talent, reinforce talent support, and construct an ecosystem for the assetizatian of agricultural and rural data, upgrade the industrial chain with the data chain, so as to empower the modern urban-rural industrial revitalization in Tianjin.

2026 Vol.33(4): 18–22    [Abstract] ( 20 )    [PDF 553 KB ] ( 0 )

Area-based rural revitalization is a crucial pathway for resolving the fragmentation of rural development in the new era. It marks a profound transformation in China’s rural development paradigm toward regional synergy and systemic reconstruction. In recent years, provinces such as Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, and Henan have actively explored area-based rural revitalization model and achieved remarkable results. However, they also face practical challenges, including inadequate planning guidance, a tight supply of construction land, difficulties in revitalizing existing land resources, unsound interest coordination mechanisms, prominent conflicts between land use and farmland protection, and insufficient management flexibility. To address those issues, it is essential to strengthen overall planning coordination and optimize the spatial layout of land use, broaden land supply channels to ensure reasonable land demands, improve the policy framework for revitalizing existing land to resolve the dilemma of idle and inefficient resource utilization, refine interest coordination mechanisms to stimulate the enthusiasm of multiple stakeholders and strike a balance between land for development and farmland protection to enhance the management flexibility of rural land use.

2026 Vol.33(4): 23–27    [Abstract] ( 18 )    [PDF 567 KB ] ( 5 )

Based on the practical demands of implementing the rural revitalization strategy and advancing the integrated urban-rural development in Tianjin, this paper systematically investigates the inventory of idle rural houses across the city and sorts out the progress of their revitalization and utilization, before conducting an in-depth analysis of prominent problems and underlying causes existing in relevant work. In view of practical shortcomings including the low revitalization rate of idle rural houses, unbalanced regional development, high renovation costs of old rural houses, single revitalization modes, severe industrial homogenization, barriers to policy implementation, insufficient financial support, shortage of professional talents and low participation of social capital, this study puts forward systematic countermeasures from six perspectives: strengthening publicity and ideological guidance, improving the rural property right system, reinforcing financial guarantee, optimizing spatial planning and industrial forms, perfecting policy supervision, and introducing and cultivating professional talents. The research aims to promote the standardized, large-scale and characteristic development of idle rural house revitalization in Tianjin, in Tianjin.

2026 Vol.33(4): 28–31    [Abstract] ( 18 )    [PDF 582 KB ] ( 0 )

Establishing a high-quality agricultural products circulation system serves as a crucial pillar for implementing the rural revitalization strategy, accelerating agricultural and rural modernization, and promoting integrated urban-rural development. Tianjin has established an agricultural products circulation system that supports rural revitalization and regional coordinated development; however, it faces challenges including weak organizational capacity among circulation entities that results in limited driving capacity; lagging circulation infrastructure development with prominent shortcomings in cold chain logistics; insufficient expansion of distribution channels and inadequate extension of industrial chains; and an underdeveloped brand promotion system that restricts premium pricing capabilities. These countermeasures should be taken to promote high-quality development of agricultural products circulation in Tianjin including fostering and strengthening distribution entities to enhance their scale and organizational efficiency; improving circulation infrastructure to address cold chain logistics deficiencies; innovating circulation modes to improve the coordination efficiency between production and sales; and strengthening brand building and standardized production to boost competitiveness.

2026 Vol.33(4): 32–36    [Abstract] ( 14 )    [PDF 635 KB ] ( 0 )

The integration of fishery, culture, and tourism serves as the core engine for promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, revitalizing traditional fishing culture, and building a new pattern of coordinated development between modern fisheries and tourism. Currently, Tianjin’s fishery-culture-tourism integration faces multiple challenges, including an imbalanced industrial structure, fragmented resource development, and increased pressure on ecological protection. Driven by the urgent need for industrial transformation and upgrading, the practical urgency of preserving traditional fishing culture, and the rigid constraints of sustainable development goals, it is necessary to conprehensively upgrade the development model by taking the reform of the governance system as a breakthrough, scenario innovation as a driver, factor ecosystems as support, and digital empowerment as an engine. The goal is to build Tianjin into a nationally leading demonstration zone for blue economy integrated innovation and a distinctive coastal eco-cultural tourism destination in northern China, thereby providing sustained and robust endogenous momentum for the in-depth implementation of the rural revitalization strategy and the strategy of building a strong maritime city.

2026 Vol.33(4): 37–41    [Abstract] ( 16 )    [PDF 1271 KB ] ( 0 )

Agricultural heritage systems are important carriers and the essence of China’s traditional agrarian civilization, playing a significant role in rural revitalization and sustainable agricultural development. Based on field investigations and data analysis of agricultural heritage systems in Tianjin, this study finds that current systems are characterized by insufficient excavation and systematic documentation, increasing spatial protection pressure driven by urbanization processes, weak branding influence, and an underdeveloped policy support and professional talent system. On this basis, several optimization strategies are proposed, including strengthening the census and classification management of heritage resources, improving policy support and multi-level coordination mechanisms; Promoting branding construction and demonstration area development of agricultural heritage; Reinforcing spatial regulation and integrated protection of core areas; Advancing coordinated conservation and value co-construction within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; And enhancing professional training and educational practice systems, so as to improve the overall conservation level and sustainable development capacity of agricultural heritage systems.

2026 Vol.33(4): 42–45    [Abstract] ( 17 )    [PDF 654 KB ] ( 1 )

The integration of agricultural industry is a crucial aspect of promoting high-quality development in Tianjin’s urban agriculture. The integration of agricultural industries should be based on regional resource, focusing on products, service, industries, and technology. Through the organic integration of supply chains, industry chains, value chains, innovation chains, and policy chains, it can promote the enhancement of the capability level and value realization of agricultural industry integration. To realize the industrial integration, some measures should be taken, including: improving the supply chain to innovate the match mode of agricultural product production and sales; extending the industrial chain to promote the integration of agriculture, culture, commerce, tourism, sports and exhibitions; enhancing the value chain to strengthen the ability to create agricultural value; building the innovation chain to empower industrial integration with advanced technology and elements; constructing the policy chain to activate the endogenous driving force of agricultural industry integration.

2026 Vol.33(4): 46–49    [Abstract] ( 16 )    [PDF 653 KB ] ( 1 )

Industrial upgrading is the core driving force and sustainable pathway for rural development. Based on surveys of dozens of townships across ten agricultural districts in Tianjin, this study finds that current rural industries remain primarily driven by resource expansion and scale growth, with low development quality, and structural predicaments including weak value-added capacity, low factor allocation efficiency, poor brand value transformation, and intensifying regional “involution” competition. The underlying causes lie in policy fragmentation and administrative barriers that hinder effective collaboration, difficulties in channeling factors toward high-value-added links, and an immature industrial ecosystem. Countermeasures include strengthening departmental coordination and regional integration, innovating factor allocation mechanisms, and building a brand ecosystem systematically to promote the transformation and upgrading of rural industries.

2026 Vol.33(4): 50–53    [Abstract] ( 17 )    [PDF 694 KB ] ( 0 )

Vegetable is the core foundation for ensuring vegetable supply security and promoting rural industrial revitalization. As an important vegetable breeding base in China, Tianjin has leading technological advantages in the breeding of cucumber, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage and other varieties, but still faces prominent problems such as small enterprise scale, poor connection between breeding, reproduction and promotion, insufficient innovation momentum, and imperfect intellectual property protection system. Based on the latest development data of Tianjin’s vegetable seed industry from 2023 to 2026 and drawing on advanced experience in seed industry development at home and abroad, this study proposes recommendations including seizing the current window of opportunity to cultivate innovative leading enterprises, establishing a collaborative innovation platform for smart breeding, improving incentive-based intellectual property protection and variety rights trading mechanisms, innovating talent recruitment, cultivation, and incentive frameworks, exploring the establishment of a seed industry CRO ecosystem, and enhancing regional collaboration and international cooperation systems. The suggestions aim to provide decision-making references for promoting high-quality technological innovation in Tianjin’s vegetable seed industry.

2026 Vol.33(4): 54–59    [Abstract] ( 14 )    [PDF 852 KB ] ( 0 )

Urban-rural integrated development is the fundamental pathway to continuously increase farmers' income and narrow the urban-rural gap. From the perspective of urban-rural integration, this paper systematically analyzes the deep-seated dilemmas constraining the sustained income growth of farmers in Tianjin. The study finds that the rural residents’ income in Tianjin still faces three structural dilemmas though it has been growing steadily and the city has long maintained the nation's best urban-rural income ratio: First, in terms of income disparity, the absolute urban-rural income gap continues to widen, rising from 16,055 yuan in 2012 to 25,634 yuan in 2025, with a notable gap compared to developed provinces and municipalities; Second, in terms of income structure, net property income accounts for only 4% of total income, with an urban-rural ratio as high as 3.75, making it the biggest shortfall in income growth; wage income growth is slowing, and net operating income is fluctuating significantly; Third, in terms of resource allocation, both urban and rural employment populations have declined, with rural employment loss being more severe—dropping by 32.62% from 2017 to 2024, and at the same time the divergence in urban and rural consumption structures further constrains the two-way flow of production factors. To address the above dilemmas, a long-term mechanism is constructed in this paper from six aspects: stabilizing wage income, expanding operating income, revitalizing net property income, increasing net transfer income, activating consumption potential, and improving organizational management. This study is to provide theoretical support and practical references for sustained income growth of farmers in Tianjin and similar regions.

2026 Vol.33(4): 60–64    [Abstract] ( 16 )    [PDF 764 KB ] ( 0 )

Consolidating poverty alleviation achievements and preventing large-scale relapse into poverty remain critical tasks in advancing the Western Development Strategy and common prosperity. Based on national statistical data and relevant research literature, this study analyzes the relapse risks and stability of poverty alleviation outcomes in western China. Findings indicate that rural low-income households in western regions experience sluggish income growth, with a poverty relapse rate of approximately 20% among formerly impoverished populations—exceeding 40% in ecologically fragile areas—revealing significant instability and vulnerability. Factors including scarce natural resources, weak human capital, insufficient household asset accumulation, intensified employment pressures, and policy dependency collectively undermine sustainable poverty alleviation efforts. To address these challenges, it is imperative to enhance relapse prevention monitoring systems and support coordination mechanisms, strengthen farmer-oriented industrial collaboration frameworks, promote stable employment for poverty-alleviated populations, establish conditional transfer payment systems, boost endogenous development momentum, and resolutely safeguard against large-scale poverty relapse.

2026 Vol.33(4): 65–68    [Abstract] ( 114 )    [PDF 722 KB ] ( 39 )

Tianjin has established a comprehensive pet industry chain ecosystem and a differentiated urban-rural spatial layout, laying a solid foundation for promoting urban-rural integration. However, challenges remain, including fragmented urban-rural coordination within the industrial chain, insufficient spatial synergy, weak internal industry momentum, inadequate regulatory frameworks, and restricted factor mobility—all of which limit the pet industry’s potential to drive urban-rural integration. To advance the high-quality development of Tianjin’s pet industry and provide a practical model for urban-rural integration, measures should be taken by enhancing urban-rural collaboration across the industrial chain, optimizing regional spatial planning, strengthening the industry’s core competitiveness, and improving regulatory and resource support mechanisms.

2026 Vol.33(4): 69–73    [Abstract] ( 14 )    [PDF 740 KB ] ( 0 )

In the era of rapid development of the digital economy and comprehensive implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, the quality of non-agricultural employment of rural labor has become key issue related to people's livelihood and the smooth flow of the domestic economic cycle. However, the distribution of digital dividends is uneven, and the existence of digital divide is profoundly restricting the improvement of the quality of non-agricultural employment of rural labor, which may further affect their income level and consumption capacity, and ultimately hinder the release of rural consumption potential and the achievement of rural revitalization goals. This paper will analyze the manifestations and core contradictions of the digital divide affecting the quality of non-agricultural employment of rural labor, deeply analyze its causes and mechanisms from multiple dimensions such as human capital, social capital, and industrial adaptability, and propose systematic and operable policy suggestions.

2026 Vol.33(4): 74–77    [Abstract] ( 12 )    [PDF 751 KB ] ( 0 )

Under the comprehensive advancement of the “Healthy China” initiative and the rural revitalization strategy, the health literacy of professional farmers has become a strategic cornerstone for ensuring national food security and sustainable rural development. However, the current health status of professional farmers is concerning, with insufficient health literacy education in agricultural universities, inadequate occupational health management among agricultural enterprises, and imperfect cross-departmental coordination mechanisms leading to resource misallocation. It is imperative to synergize efforts across five dimensions—institutional integration, resource restructuring, corporate accountability, individual empowerment, and digital empowerment—to establish a health literacy cultivation system covering the entire professional lifecycle, thereby laying a solid health foundation for the construction of an agricultural powerhouse.

2026 Vol.33(4): 78–81    [Abstract] ( 14 )    [PDF 772 KB ] ( 1 )

The integrated development of urban and rural areas is a long-term and arduous systemic endeavor. Only through continuous deepening of reforms and removal of institutional and systemic barriers can the urban-rural gap be gradually narrowed, thereby mutual prosperity and shared development between urban and rural areas can be achievved. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of integrated urban-rural development in China, revealing a series of complex and severe challenges it faces: the institutional barriers of the urban-rural dual structure are deeply entrenched, centered on a dual social system with the household registration system at its core; the mechanism for the two-way flow of urban and rural factors is severely flawed; the task of achieving the equalization of basic urban and rural public services is arduous; and the industrial system in rural counties is underdeveloped, and structural imbalances in the rural population are pronounced. Accordingly, a series of targeted policy recommendations are proposed. It is essential to dismantle institutional and systemic barriers, break down institutional obstacles between urban and rural areas, and promote the free flow of factors. Public service provision must be optimized by unifying urban and rural public service standards and improving the quality and equity of public services. Development efforts should be coordinated at the county level to establish a new model of urban-rural synergy. Taking the county as the basic unit, integrated urban-rural development should be advanced through the implementation of an employment-first strategy, promoting the coordinated development of urban and rural industries within the county to achieve shared prosperity across urban and rural areas.

2026 Vol.33(4): 82–86    [Abstract] ( 14 )    [PDF 803 KB ] ( 1 )

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China identified the institutional mechanisms for integrated urban-rural development as a key focus of deepening reforms, currently facing systemic barriers to the two-way flow of capital, land, and labor. This paper systematically analyzes institutional factors constraining equal exchange and bidirectional mobility of urban-rural resources through four dimensions: insufficient motivation for talent return migration, slow urbanization of agricultural transfer populations, mismatched spatial distribution of urban-rural construction land, and incomplete agricultural investment mechanisms. Based on this analysis, the study proposes countermeasures including establishing an “administrative+market” push-pull mechanism, implementing employment-based household registration policies with equal urban-rural rights, creating a land-use quota linkage system tied to permanent resident populations, and enhancing policy-based financial support for agriculture. These measures aim to dismantle institutional constraints and facilitate shared prosperity between urban and rural areas.

2026 Vol.33(4): 87–90    [Abstract] ( 13 )    [PDF 771 KB ] ( 98 )

Against the backdrop of the deepening implementation of the rural revitalization strategy and the ongoing reform of the rural collective property rights system, the “separation of political and economic functions” has emerged as a key reform direction. This approach aims to address the long-standing conflation of administrative functions of village committees and economic functions of rural collective economic organizations. This paper focuses on the separate accounting reform within this context, examining the prevailing governance dilemma of “political-economic integration” in rural areas, while incorporating policy requirements and grassroots practices. The analysis reveals that the separation of accounts between rural collective economic organizations and village committees faces practical challenges, including the confusion of legal entities, unclear conditions for separate accounting, and disputes over asset division. In response to these problems, the paper proposes a three-pronged advancement path: clarifying the criteria for initiating separate accounting, standardizing the implementation of the separation process, and strengthening operational safeguard mechanisms. The study suggests that there is a gap between institutional supply and grassroots practice in the current reform of account separation, highlighting an urgent need for a compliant and operable account separation management scheme to support the high-quality development of the rural collective economy.

2026 Vol.33(4): 91–94    [Abstract] ( 15 )    [PDF 776 KB ] ( 1 )

The point system of rural governance is the system innovation and model innovation, and it is the path choice of constructing the new pattern of co-construction, co-governance and sharing governance. The township government, as the grass-roots political power organization of our country’s villages, is the most important organizer and promoter of implementing the point system management. Taking Xinkaikou town in Baodi District as a typical case, the practice and significance of implementing of points system is introduced, and the existing problems and difficulties is analyzed. In the light of the problems, some suggestions is put forward for optimizing the system, such as promoting the dynamic adjustment of goals under the point-based system, expanding the range of participants involved, increasing the proportion of “Point + credit”, gradually improving the incentive system of the points system, and widely using the digital technology, etc., in order to further enhance the capacity and level of rural governance, and comprehensively build a new pattern of co-construction, co-governance and shared governance.

2026 Vol.33(4): 95–98    [Abstract] ( 12 )    [PDF 766 KB ] ( 2 )

Urban-rural integration constitutes a core strategy for addressing urban-rural developmental imbalances and advancing Chinese modernization, which effectively facilitates the two-way flow of urban and rural factors and fosters integrated development. As vital carriers connecting academic research and grassroots practice, disseminating agricultural technologies, and bridging urban-rural knowledge gaps, agricultural journals are highly consistent with the goals of urban-rural integration. Based on statistical data, journal monitoring records, typical cases, and research samples from 2024 to 2025, this paper systematically explores the practical dilemmas of agricultural journals under the context of urban-rural integration and reveals their underlying institutional, resource, technological, and value-based causes. It proposes optimization paths covering resource allocation, content supply, digital communication, institutional mechanisms, and policy coordination. By breaking the urban-centred monopoly of academic resources, activating the two-way circulation of urban and rural factors, and reshaping the grassroots service functions of journals, this study aims to promote the high-quality development of agricultural journals and achieve coordinated progress with urban-rural integration.

2026 Vol.33(4): 99–102    [Abstract] ( 12 )    [PDF 772 KB ] ( 0 )

Nationwide reading is a systematic project for all citizens. However, there are still some problems in practice, including underdeveloped reading habits, disruption by digital trends, skewed reader structure and limited engagement in nationwide reading activities. By innovating activity modes, building brands, fostering reading habits, strengthening digital reading, meeting the needs of readers, making much of promotion, engaging diverse social forces, we can promote the participation of left-behind rural residents in nationwide reading activities, thereby contributing to the rural cultural revitalization.