The digital transformation of enterprises is of great significance to the high-quality development of the whole industry chain of animal husbandry. Based on the panel data of A-share listed animal husbandry and dairy enterprises from 2012 to 2022, the realization mechanism enabling the growth of animal husbandry enterprises by digital economy was analyzed by using the common panel regression model and the two-step mediation regression model. The results indicated that：digital transformation could significantly promote the growth of animal husbandry enterprises;heterogeneity analysis showed that this effect was more significant in state-owned enterprises than in non-state-owned enterprises, and more significant in central and western regions than in eastern regions;the mechanism test found that the growth of enterprises was mainly promoted by reducing internal control costs and improving production efficiency. Therefore, it is recommended to implement strategies according to classification: non-state-owned enterprises should increase technological investment to enhance digital security and ecological governance capabilities; state-owned enterprises should use digital tools to optimize management and break through the traditional system constraints; enterprises in central and western regions should accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure with policy support; enterprises in eastern region should deepen the application of data platforms and promote business model innovation.

In the new stage of promoting Chinese modernization, the impact of rural population aging on agricultural and rural modernization has become an important issue. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China (excluding Tibet Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from 2007 to 2022, this paper constructed an evaluation index system for agricultural and rural modernization from three dimensions: agricultural modernization, rural modernization and farmer modernization, and used the entropy method to measure the development level of agricultural and rural modernization, and empirically examined the impact and internal mechanism of rural population aging on agricultural and rural modernization. The results showed that： rural population aging had a significant positive effect on agricultural and rural modernization, and the conclusion was still valid after a series of robustness tests;rural population aging indirectly promoted agricultural and rural modernization through the transfer of farmland. Additionally, from the three dimensions of agricultural and rural modernization, there was regional heterogeneity in the impact of rural population aging, the rural population aging had the strongest impact on agricultural and rural modernization in major grain-producing regions, whereas its impact was less significant in the production-marketing balance regions and the main marketing regions. Further research found that, the promoting effect of rural population aging on agricultural and rural modernization was further strengthened with the advancement of agricultural and rural modernization level, but it showed a downward trend with the improvement of farmer modernization level. In the future, it is necessary to enhance farmer modernization level to address aging-related challenges; this can be achieved by guiding the orderly farmland transfer, integrating land resources and promoting appropriate agricultural scale operation; based on regional resource endowments, measures should be tailored to local conditions to precisely facilitate the steady development of agricultural and rural modernization.

As an important ecological security barrier in Northern China, the realization of ecological products value in Inner Mongolia is a core issue for promoting ecological civilization construction and high-quality development. Based on national policy guidance and combined with the characteristics of ecological systems such as grasslands and forests in Inner Mongolia, this paper analyzed the supply status of its material products (grain, livestock, energy), regulatory services (soil and water conservation, air purification), and cultural services (ecological tourism), by establishing an evaluation system including ecological resource support capacity, ecological service value realization capacity, and ecological protection and restoration capacity evaluation system, the entropy weight method was used to determine the weight of indicators, and the multi-index comprehensive evaluation method to assess its capacity level, and the realization path was discussed based on the evaluation results. The study found that：from 2013 to 2023, the comprehensive index of sustainable realization capacity of ecological products value in Inner Mongolia increased from 30.38 to 60.55,at the same time, the ecological resource support capacity index showed a fluctuating downward trend, the ecological products service value realization capacity index fluctuated upward, but the overall score was still low, and the ecological protection and restoration capacity fluctuated greatly due to factors such as geological disasters. Accordingly, it was proposed to improve the top-level system design,establish a systematic ecological products value accounting and property rights trading system; construct an ecological resource protection technology innovation system,optimize the ecological products value transformation path; innovate the ecological restoration technology system break the bottleneck of ecological governance; and establish a long-term incentive mechanism for ecological protection and restoration to promote the sustainable transformation of ecological products value, transforming the ecological advantages of Inner Mongolia into economic advantages through institutional innovation and industrial upgrading, and providing a regional demonstration for the realization of ecological products value in China, especially in the northern ecological barrier area.

New quality productive forces are an important force in promoting high-quality economic and social development, as well as a key breakthrough in promoting high-quality agricultural development. Based on the theoretical analysis of how new quality productive forces drived and affected high-quality agricultural development, the article calculated the levels of new quality productive forces and high-quality agricultural development in Gansu Province by using panel data of Gansu Province from 2010 to 2023, and further analyzed heterogeneous effect, threshold effect and spatial spillover effect. The results showed that： new quality productive forces was an important driving force for promoting high-quality agricultural development in Gansu Province; the impact of new quality productive forces on promoting agricultural development exhibited regional heterogeneity, with the strongest promoting effect on the Hexi Corridor Economic Zone followed by the Lanzhou-Baiyin Economic Zone, and no significant effect on the Longdongnan Economic Zone; further research found that non-linear characteristics and spatial spillover effects existed in the promotion of high-quality agricultural development in Gansu Province by new quality productive forces. Based on the above research conclusions, countermeasures and suggestions were proposed to drive the development of new quality productive forces through technological innovation, formulating differentiated agricultural industry development strategies, promoting the development of agricultural industry clusters, and establishing a collaborative mechanism for regional agricultural industry development.

The high-quality development of agriculture is the key to promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, the agglomeration of agricultural productivity exerts both direct and indirect influences on the high-quality development of agriculture. This paper was aimed to explore the relationship between agglomeration of agricultural productivity, high-quality development of agricultural and industrial structure based on the panel data of 30 provinces, regions and municipalities in China（except Xizang Autonomous Region, HongKong,Macau,and Taiwan） from 2009 to 2020, providing new insights for China’s agricultural development. The empirical results showed that: the agglomeration of agricultural productivity promotes the high-quality development of agriculture. The agglomeration of agricultural productivity could promote the rationalization of industrial structure and accelerate the high-quality development of agriculture; with the advanced industrial structure as the threshold variable, the agglomeration of agricultural productivity had a single threshold effect on the high-quality development of agriculture. Therefore, upholding the concept of high-quality development in agriculture, actively promoting the agglomeration of agricultural productivity development, providing a strong impetus for high-quality agricultural development; at the same time, optimizing the industrial structure to elevate agricultural high-quality development to a higher level.

The synergistic advancement of agricultural insurance and cultivated land quality protection serves as both a critical pathway for implementing the strategy of storing grain in the land and technology, and an important lever for achieving the green transformation of agriculture. Based on survey data from 2 052 farmers across 10 provinces (autonomous regions,city) in China, this study employed the Oprobit model, propensity score matching method(PSM), and mediation effect model to empirically examine the impact of agricultural insurance on farmers’ conservation tillage practices and its underlying mechanisms.The research found that: participation in agricultural insurance incentivized farmers to adopt conservation tillage practices, particularly promoting farmers’ higher-level conservation tillage practices; agricultural insurance enhanced farmers’ inclination toward conservation tillage through the mechanism of increasing agricultural income; the impact of agricultural insurance on farmers’ conservation tillage practices exhibited heterogeneity, with a more significant effect on farmers with higher levels of land concentration and pure agricultural operations. Accordingly, this study recommended expanding the coverage of agricultural insurance, strengthening universal risk protection, innovating agricultural products price and income insurance to establish a long-term income security mechanism, and constructing a differentiated financial subsidy system to enhance the incentive precision of agricultural insurance, so as to achieve a positive interaction between agricultural insurance and farmers’ conservation tillage practices.

With the continuous improvement of the national environmental governance system, grassroots e-commerce platforms have provided strong support for the green development of agricultural products. At present, agricultural product e-commerce enterprises face challenges related to product packaging waste disposal and disposable plastic packaging pollution. From the perspective of consumer response, this study explored the process of green logistics on environmental performance, divided green logistics into four dimensions: green transportation, green packaging, green circulation and processing, and green logistics information management, and used AMOS structural equation model to empirically test the mechanism of green logistics on environmental performance. The results showed that: the impact of green logistics on environmental performance of agricultural product e-commerce enterprises was significant, and consumer response played a partial mediating role between green logistics and environmental performance, 4 paths were formed in total, the mediating effect of 4 paths in the total effect accounting for 28.81%, 29.48%, 39.77% and 28.44%, respectively. on the research results, some suggestions were put forward: strengthen the research and development of therefore enhancing green packaging research, continue to encourage green consumption, establish and improve the legal and policy system of green consumption, and implement other measures to achieve the sustainable development goal of “reducing costs and increasing efficiency” of green logistics of agricultural products.

Food security is a matter of national livelihood, and an important element of national security. As the main body of grain cultivation, it is of great significance to enhance farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain for ensuring national food security. Based on the survey data of 1 263 farmers in Shaanxi Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, this article utilized the Logit-ISM model to explore the influencing factors of farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain and their internal correlations and hierarchical structure. The results showed that: the factors influencing farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain could be categorized into deep, middle and surface factors. Whether the farmland rights were confirmed, the years of education, and whether farmers had received agricultural training were the deep factors, which influenced the middle indirect factors such as whether to transfer in the farmland or not, whether to transfer out the farmland or not, the sensitivity of the information, and whether to participa in agricultural insurance or not, and acted on the surface factors including the opportunity cost perception of farming, the livelihood strategy, and the ability to get loan from bank, influencing the famers’ enthusiasm for growing grain. Therefore, it is recommended to further consolidate the effects of land ownership, increasing the training intensity for farmers, improving the comparative income of grain cultivation, and increasing the financial support for farmers to grow grain.

Under the “Belt and Road” high-quality development initiative, agricultural trade faces new opportunities and challenges. Based on the panel data of China and 55 “Belt and Road” partner countries from 2013 to 2021, this paper constructed a stochastic frontier gravity model to study the influencing factors of export trade efficiency of agricultural products .The results showed that： the partner countries’per capita GDP, population size, trade freedom, China’s per capita GDP and shared linguistic and common borders with China all positively influenced China’s agricultural exports; China’s population size, the distance between capitals, agricultural value-added share in partner countries’ GDP, tariff level and government integrity had negative effects on China’s agricultural exports; the trade efficiency between China and high-income countries was relatively high, except for a decline in 2020, China’s annual trade efficiency remained stable at a moderately low level. Therefore, it is recommended to focus on high-potential markets and optimize regional agricultural product distribution; strengthen geographical indication development to promote trade liberalization and market differentiation; optimize trade strategies to enhance agricultural cooperation level and adaptive capacity.

Crop-livestock integration is a fundamental approach to developing ecological circular agriculture and achieve high-quality agricultural development. Farmers are the main operators and stakeholders of crop-livestock integration, clarifying the core driving force to encourage farmers adopt crop-livestock integration has great significance for formulating effective measures to promote crop-livestock integration. Therefore, this paper selected the dairy cattle family ranch as the research object,based on the measurement of the adoption degree of crop-livestock integration, according to the micro survey data, used the endogenous switching regression (ESR) model to empirically analyze the effects and mechanisms of the adoption degree of crop-livestock integration from the perspectives of market driving and policy constraints. The results showed that： based on the factual hypothesis, market-driven and policy constraints had significantly improved the farmers’ adoption degree of crop-livestock integration, and market-driven had a greater positive impact on the farmers’ adoption degree of crop-livestock integration, which was the core driving force to improve the farmers’ adoption degree of crop-livestock integration,and after the CMP model and winsorization, the conclusions were still valid. Market-driven and policy constraints had aggravated the group differentiation of the farmers’ adoption degree of the crop-livestock integration, and its influence had the characteristics of intergenerational heterogeneity; compared with the young and middle-aged people,market-driven and policy constraints had more obvious promotion effect on the adoption degree of the crop-livestock integration among the middle-aged and elderly farmers. The mechanism test showed that,market-driven and policy constraints could improve crop-livestock integration by influencing farmers’ value cognition, and compared with policy constraints, market-driven had a greater impact on farmers’ value cognition of crop-livestock integration. Therefore, market-driven is the primary factor to stimulate and improve the farmers’ adoption degree of crop-livestock integration. In the promotion of crop-livestock integration, effective market should be combined with proactive government,and improve farmers’ value cognition of the crop-livestock integration,differentiated measures should be taken according to the different population characteristics to promote the openness,transparency of market information, the scientific and rational of agricultural policies.

Agricultural enterprises are the backbone of the overall promotion rural revitalization, and have obvious advantages in perfecting the rural industrial system, raising the level of agricultural science and technology, and driving farmers to increase income. Based on the perspective of value co-creation, this paper take the practice of participation in rural revitalization of Wynn Food Group Co., Ltd., as an example to explore the action logic of agricultural enterprises in rural revitalization. The results of the study showed that agricultural enterprises were deeply involved in rural revitalization along the action logic of “value proposition—value creation—value sharing”, whose value propositions for participation in rural revitalization were diversified. Driven by diversified value propositions, it continuously created economic, environmental and social values through technological innovation, industrial chain upgrading, model innovation of uniting and promoting agriculture. and participation in rural construction, etc. It also achieved win-win value through the construction of formal and informal systems, and ultimately promoted the comprehensive rural revitalization.

New quality productivity is a strong driving force to promote the Party and the country’s various undertakings to achieve high-quality development in the new era, but also to promote the modernization of agriculture and rural development is an important support, which plays a key role in leading the development of modern large-scale agriculture and realizing the green and low-carbon transformation. On 10-11 August 2024, development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry organized experts and scholars in the industry to carry out seminars and exchanges around the theme of “Modernization of Forestry, Animal Husbandry, Fishery and Grassland Industry with New Productivity”, discussing the current situation of modernization of forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and grassland industries and how to develop new productivity to promote modernization of forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and grassland industries. Wei Houkai, President of China Association of Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Economics, Zhang Junbiao, Vice President of Zhejiang Rural Revitalization Research Institute of Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Liu Can, Deputy Director of Development Research Center of State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Xin Guochang, Deputy Director of Bureau of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Chen Jie, Deputy Director of Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Economy delivered keynote speeches on five aspects of the conference including modernized large-scale agriculture, green and low-carbon development of agriculture, high-quality development of forestry, development of the livestock industry and modernization of the fishery industry. The conference set up special forums on forestry economy, aquaculture economy, grass economy, young scholars, master’s and doctoral students, and international students to discuss how to promote the modernization of forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and grassland industries in the field. On the morning of 11 August in the animal husbandry economy and policy forum, the Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Science Think Tank Chief Scientist, Professor Xiu Changbai and other eight well-known experts around the development of animal husbandry made a special report. In the afternoon of August 11, the conference also held a “Seminar on Agricultural Development Strategy of Yuquan District, Hohhot”, in which the participating consulting experts put forward valuable suggestions for the agricultural and economic development of Yuquan District in Hohhot from various perspectives such as the positioning of urban agriculture development and the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism development. In view of this, this special issue contains a compilation of the opinions and suggestions of experts and scholars, with a view to stimulating further reflection on the modernization and development of forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in the academic community.

The agro-processing industry is an important foundation for promoting modern agriculture chain extension and supplementation, and it is also a practical need to comprehensively promote rural revitalization, which is of great significance to realize the integrated development of three industries in rural areas, The development level of Yibin’s agricultural economy is inseparable from the growth of agro-processing industry. In this paper, quantitative and qualitative research methods were used to analyze the development status of Yibin’s modern “5+2” agro-processing industry. The purpose was to find out the existing problems and put forward suggestions for the next development, finally providing some reference for promoting the high-quality development level of Yibin’s agro-processing industry, accelerating the pace of agricultural and rural modernization and building a modern agricultural city.

Based on panel data for 30 provinces in China, excluding the Xizang Autonomous Region and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan from 2011 to 2021, this study constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system to measure the level of new quality productivity and agricultural economic resilience, followed by exploring the effect and mechanism of the influence of new quality productivity on the agricultural economic resilience by means of the bidirectional fixed effect model and the mediation model. The results of the study showed that new quality productivity significantly increased the level of agricultural economic resilience and the finding still holds after a series of robustness tests. Further analysis revealed that new productivity mainly enhances resilience by strengthening the resistance and recovery capabilities of the agricultural economy. In addition, it was also found that new productivity could empower the resilience of the agricultural economy by promoting the upgrading of the rural consumption structure and enhancing the entrepreneurial vitality of rural residents, which possessed a significant role in promoting the resilience of the agricultural economy in both food-producing and non-food-producing areas, with food-producing areas being stronger than non-food-producing areas. Based on these, it is suggested to create a favorable environment for the development of new quality productivity, promote deep integration of new quality productivity with the agricultural economy, formulate differentiated agricultural development policies, and accelerate the realization of the strategic goal of a strong agricultural country.

Taking the Yangtze River Economic Belt as the research object, based on the panel data from 2006 to 2021, the coupled coordination degree model was first used to estimate and analyze the level of agricultural pollution reduction and carbon synergistic development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. On this basis, the distribution of the coupled coordination degree level of agriculture in the Yangtze River Economic Belt was elaborated, and then the Dagum Gini coefficient was used to analyze the spatial differences of the cooperative development level. Finally, a regression model was established to analyze the influencing factors for the level of cooperative development of agricultural pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It was found that there were obvious spatial differences in the coordination level of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, with an overall upward trend, and the supervariable density contributing the most to the spatial differentiation. The coupling coordination degree of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt was barely coordinated in 2006, but the other years were on the verge of imbalance. Specifically, the coupling coordination degree of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the upstream region was better than that in other regions as a whole, while the collaborative development performance of agricultural pollution reduction and carbon reduction in Chongqing and Shanghai was relatively outstanding, basically stabilizing at the primary coordination level; the effects of mechanization level, rural education level, industrial structure, rural economic level and financial support for agriculture on the level of coordinated development of agricultural pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt vary somewhat by region.

Promoting the modernization of agriculture and rural areas is an important target task for the implementation of rural revitalization, as well as a necessary way to realize Chinese path of modernization. Based on the statistical data of nine provinces in the Yellow River basin from 2010 to 2022, the study measured the development level of agricultural and rural modernization in the Yellow River basin by using the entropy weight-TOPSIS method, and researched its regional differences and dynamic evolution characteristics based on the Dagum’s Gini coefficient, Moran’s I, kernel density estimation, and Markov chain. The results showed that in the sample observation period, the development level of agricultural and rural modernization, agricultural modernization and rural modernization in the Yellow River basin displayed an upward trend from 2010 to 2022, but the development level of rural modernization rose slower; the overall difference in the development level of agricultural and rural modernization showed a fluctuating downward trend, in which the difference between groups was the main source of the overall difference and there was a significant spatial aggregation; the distribution curve of nuclear density had gradually shifted to the right, and the polarization had improved; it is also found that the future development level of agricultural and rural modernization in the Yellow River basin showed a gradient upward trend, and the future development level of each province was related to its neighboring provinces. Accordingly, multi-directional attention should be paid to rural development, regional characteristic industries should be developed according to local conditions, regional synergistic cooperation should be strengthened, and the radiation-driven role of regions with high levels of agricultural and rural modernization development should be brought into full play.

Agricultural development is the foundation of rural revitalization, while finance is the booster of agricultural development. This study was based on the development goal of building an “agricultural and livestock food industry base” in Baotou City, and through field research, data collection, collation and analysis, it identified the problems that exist in the process of building an “agricultural and livestock food industry base” in Baotou City, such as the difficulty of meeting the financing needs of new agricultural business entities, the inadequacy of financial linkages, and the lack of enhancement of the breadth and depth of insurance coverage. In view of the above problems, it was proposed to further innovate the form of financial services, play the role of financial linkage, and improve the level of agricultural insurance protection and other countermeasures and suggestions, with a view to enhancing the financial service capacity for the construction of the agricultural and livestock food industry base in Baotou City, and promoting the comprehensive of rural revitalization.

The key to promoting high-quality agricultural development is to optimize agricultural production input and improve agricultural production efficiency. Based on statistical data from 12 leagues and cities in Inner Mongolia, this study used a three-stage DEA model to measure the agricultural production efficiency of rural and pastoral areas in Inner Mongolia. The results showed that, without excluding the effects of environmental factors and random errors, the agricultural production efficiency in rural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia was at a relatively high level, after excluding the effects of environmental factors and random errors, the comprehensive technical efficiency and pure technical efficiency of agricultural production in rural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia decreased, while scale efficiency increased; in addition, per capita disposable income of farmers and herdsmen, agricultural, forestry and water affairs expenditures, transportation conditions, etc. all had a significant positive effect on agricultural production efficiency, while urbanization level of urbanization had a significant negative effect. Therefore, this paper proposes some measures such as optimizing the government’s financial expenditure structure for agriculture, improving the level of agricultural resource allocation, appropriately expanding agricultural production scale, and advancing the modernization of agriculture, etc in orde to promote the stable improvement of agricultural production efficiency in rural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia.

New quality productivity is an important breakthrough and core point to promote the high-quality development of agriculture and realize agricultural modernization. At the historical aspect, the new quality productivity empowered agricultural modernization follows the development law of the new round of scientific revolution and industrial change. At the theoretical aspect, it inherits and develops the Marxist theory of productivity. And it meets the realistic needs for the development of agricultural modernization in the new era at the practical aspect. The mechanism of the new quality productivity for agricultural modernization is to improve the efficiency of agricultural production and the quality of agricultural products, lead the transformation and upgrading of the agricultural industry, ensure a stable and secure supply of food and important agricultural products, increase the economic income of farmers, and promote ecological environmental protection and sustainable development. To develop new quality productivity, should fecus on comprehensively promoting agricultural modernization in innovation-driven, industrial reshaping, talent supporting and green transformation.

Agricultural modernization is an important content of comprehensively promoting the construction of socialist modernization, and agriculture is a weak industry, which needs continuous support and assistance from the government. Based on the theoretical analysis of sci-tec innovation inputs on the improvement of agricultural productivity, the article take nine provinces and regions in the Yellow River basin from 2010 to 2021 as the research object, constructed the evaluation system of agricultural modernization, and analyzd the effectiveness of government inputs in promoting the process of agricultural modernization through panel regression model. The study shows that sci-tec innovation inputs played a very limited role and had a significant effect in promoting farm mechanization operations in the upper and middle reaches. The core of government assistance in agricultural development was to enhance agricultural productivity. In further research, through the coupling analysis of sci-tech innovation inputs, non-sci-tech innovation inputs on agricultural productivity, it was found that the primary reason for the limited effect of sci-tech innovation input on agricultural modernization in 9 provinces of the Yellow River basin was the imbalance between sci-tech innovation input and agricultural production efficiency. Accordingly, relevant policy recommendations are put forward to lay a theoretical foundation for further optimizing government inputs and taking the “last mile” of agricultural scientific and technological achievements transformation.

With the in-depth implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, the deep integration of agriculture, culture and tourism has become a key hand in promoting rural economic development and rural cultural revitalization. As one of the five major pastoral areas in China, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has multiple resource endowments such as animal husbandry, nomadic folk landscape, traditional villages, etc. The degree of integration of agriculture, culture and tourism has been deepening and has formed pastoral culture and tourism industry with its own characteristics. In this background, this study took the development of Inner Mongolia’s pastoralism, culture and tourism industry as an example, constructed an evaluation index system. Using the entropy value method and the coupling coordination degree model to evaluated the coupling coordination degree of the animal husbandry, cultural industry and tourism industry in Inner Mongolia from 2010 to 2022. The results showed that the average coupling degree of animal husbandry, culture and tourism from 2010—2022 was 0.925, and there was a high degree of coupling among the three industries. The average coupling coordination degree of animal husbandry, culture and tourism was 0.350, and the three industries were in the stage of mild imbalance. In general, the pastoral culture and tourism industry in Inner Mongolia had some problems such as low degree of coupling coordination, slow improvement and unstable development. Accordingly, it puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to further improve the integration and development level of the pastoral, cultural and tourism industry.

Constructing a standardized and scientific multidimensional concept and scale for the competency quality of rural wealthy leaders is benefit to understand the true level of their quality in the context of rural revitalization, provide some references for the government to cultivate rural wealthy leaders, which is important significance for improving the quality of rural wealthy leaders. This study refined the competency dimensions of rural wealthy leaders, measured the competence quality of rural wealth leaders, and empirically test the scientific validity and operability of the developed scale using exploratory factor analysis and validation factor analysis. The results indicated that the competency qualities of rural wealthy leaders include 16 characteristics, such as smart agricultural production, ecological agricultural knowledge, rural e-commerce operation, resource integration, data analysis, assistance ability, and ability to acquire social capital. These 16 characteristics could be further classified into three dimensions, including agricultural professional knowledge, agricultural skills and leadership ability. The three dimensions were both interconnected and distinctive, formed an organic whole. The competency quality scale for rural wealthy leaders constructed on this basis has good validity, which could not only effectively reflects the competency quality level of rural wealthy leaders, but also clearly presents the uniqueness of their competency quality.

Affected by the complex internal and external environment, the development of agricultural economy faces many risks and challenges,enhancing agricultural economic resilience has become a major practical issue in realizing agricultural modernization and building a strong agricultural country. Based on a comprehensive evaluation of the high-quality development of rural finance and the level of agricultural economic resilience in China, this article empirically studied the impact of high-quality development of rural finance on agricultural economic resilience. The study found that：the high-quality development of rural finance could significantly promote agricultural economic resilience, and this positive effect exhibited regional heterogeneity, particularly significant in central provinces and major grain-producing areas. In addition, at present, the positive effect of high-quality rural financial development on agricultural economic resilience mainly depended on quantitative expansion rather than qualitative improvement. Based on these findings, it is recommended to expand the supply of rural financial services, innovate financial products, and better utilize the function of capital flow. At the same time, formulate financial assistance policies tailored to local agricultural development, promote the matching of rural financial supply with the practical needs of high-quality development of rural economic, and enhance the role of high-quality development of rural finance in promoting agricultural economic resilience.

The green development of agriculture is an intrinsic driving force for promoting high-quality agricultural development, and the green production behavior of farmers is a key link in achieving green agricultural development. The paper was based on research data from 810 households in Pindu County-level City, Shandong Province, an ordered Logit model was used to analyze the effects of government actions,market mechanisms and community governance on green production behaviors of farmers. The results showed that: Among the factors influencing the green production behavior of farmers, government publicity and promotion, government training and guidance, and government regulation all had a significant positive effect; market information service and sales rule constraints in market mechanism had significant positive effect; neighborhood demonstration in community governance also possessed a significant positive effect; in the control variables,gender, age, and labor force had significant negative effects on the influencing factors of green production behavior in farmers while household income level had a significant positive effect. Heterogeneity analysis suggested that there was a significant difference between neighborhood demonstration in promoting green production among low-income and high-income farmers. Therefore,the government should formulate diversified support policies,activate green production dynamics, build green agricultural markets, stimulate demand for green products; improve the rural community regulatory system, regulate the production behavior of farmers; and play the full synergistic governance roles of the government, the market and the community in order to effectively promote the green development of agriculture.

It is of great significance to the construction of ecologically livable villages to mobilize farmers to participate in rural environmental improvement and play the main role. The article employed ordered Probit model and moderated mediation effect test to clarify the influence mechanism of policy value identification, cost perception and face consciousness on farmers’ willingness to participate in environmental remediation based on 743 research data from farmers in Feixi County, Hefei City. The results show that： 50.06% of the interviewed farmers’ willingness to participate in rural environmental remediation was at the general level and below, and the farmers’ enthusiasm for participating in environmental remediation needed to be improved. Policy value identification and face consciousness had a significant positive effect on farmers’ willingness to participate, while cost perception had a significant negative effect. Cost perception played a partial mediating role between policy value identification and farmers’ willingness to participate, and improving farmers’ policy value identification of rural environmental remediation could reduce the inhibiting effect of cost perception on farmers’ willingness to participate. The face consciousness also played a positive moderating role between the policy value identification and farmers’ willingness to participate, and the influence of the policy value identification on the farmers’ willingness to participate would be enhanced when the farmers’ face consciousness was stronger. Therefore, it should improve the policy value identification of rural households by strengthening the publicity and education on rural environmental improvement. Measures such as encouraging a variety of forms of participation based on individual endowment differences to reduce the cost perception of farmers, creating a community atmosphere for all to participate in environmental remediation, and play ing the positive role of the face consciousness, should be taken to increase the motivation of farmers to participate in environmental remediation.

As a major spring rapeseed producing area and an important base for agricultural and livestock products in China, Inner Mongolia plays a crucial role in the national strategy of "increasing domestic oil supply in the oil bottle ". Based on the macro statistical data of Inner Mongolia and its 12 leagues/cities from 2012 to 2023, this study systematically explored the overall production characteristics of oil crops in Inner Mongolia, with a specific focus on analyzing the regional differences, development potential and practical dilemmas of the rapeseed industry by adopting data analysis methods. It also revealed issues related to rapeseed processing and market promotion, and proposed corresponding recommendations to enhance the overall efficiency of the rapeseed industry. The study showed that: from 2012 to 2023, the sown area and total output of oil crops in Inner Mongolia showed an overall trend of "steady growth with fluctuations", although rape was not a dominant crop, its sustained and stable production was of great value. It could not only optimize the planting structure of oil crops in Inner Mongolia and mitigate the risk of over-reliance on a single crop, but also support the supply of regional characteristic oilseeds. From the perspective of regional differences, rapeseed producing areas in Inner Mongolia were divided into four categories, Hulun Buir City as the core area, Xing′an League and Ulanqab City as the potential areas, Chifeng City and Tongliao City as the auxiliary producing areas, and Wuhai City and Alagxa League as the areas with minimal rapeseed cultivation. The rapeseed industry in Inner Mongolia had three major development potentials: superior natural conditions, improved planting technologies, and strong policy support. However, there were problems such as weak seed source foundation and outdated cultivation techniques in the planting process. In terms of industrial chain extension, it faced problems including lagging intensive processing, weak industrial chain coordination, and obstacles in technology promotion. Accordingly, specific measures were proposed, including strengthening technological research on breeding and other fields, building an intelligent agricultural production system, improving the intensive and deep processing technology system and enhancing relevant facilities and equipment, intensifying the interest linkage mechanism and strengthening brand building and international cooperation, increasing government support to promote the technology popularization across the entire industrial chain, and establishing a mechanism for provincial-level overall planning and coordination among leagues and cities to improve overall efficiency. These measures were aimed at providing references for the high-quality development of the rapeseed industry in Inner Mongolia.

Based on the panel data of 280 cities in China from 2000 to 2022, this article took the demonstration cities of "Broadband China" as quasi-natural experiments and used a multi-period difference-in-differences（DID） model to evaluate the impact and mechanisms of digital infrastructure construction on farmers′ income growth. The research found that, the construction of digital infrastructure significantly promoted farmers′ income growth, and this conclusion still held true after a series of robustness tests. Further analysis revealed that, the construction of digital infrastructure promoted farmers′ income growth by enhancing agricultural production efficiency, increasing non-agricultural employment for farmers, and optimizing the rural industrial structure. The income-increasing effect of digital infrastructure construction on farmers was more obvious in the eastern region and areas where farmers had a higher level of education. Based on these conclusions, suggestions were proposed to strengthen rural digital infrastructure, encourage farmers to seek employment and start businesses through multiple channels, and give full play to the role and effect of digital infrastructure in increasing farmers′ income.

Rural characteristic industries are an important way to promote rural revitalization and sustained income growth of farmers. In recent years, Laixi City of Qingdao has vigorously developed the fruit characteristic industry, becoming a well-known northern fruit base in China, which has played an important role in increasing farmers′ income and making them rich. Based on the perspective of internal and external embedding, this paper conducted in-depth research on relevant government departments, villages and main bodies engaged in the fruit industry in Laixi City, systematically sorted out the development conditions of the fruit characteristic industry, constructed a theoretical framework of "external embedding - internal response - wealth-creating transformation", and analyzed its wealth-creating mechanism and development path. The study found that: the successful cultivation of rural characteristic industries requires the combination of effective actions by grassroots governments and the stimulation of rural endogenous driving forces. Specifically, it is reflected in the collaborative interaction between external government embedding (policy guidance, public welfare service support, facility guarantee) and internal rural embedding (cognition and relationships within the industry, rural grassroots organizations). The transformation path of its wealth-creating mechanism is manifested in activating various rural resources by improving resource utilization efficiency, realizing value enhancement through the premium effect of brands and quality, and achieving benefit sharing through multiple links and business formats derived from the industrial chain.

Rural ecological revitalization plays an important role in the rural revitalization strategy. The government empowered rural enterprises from three dimensions such as the institution, the technology and the culture in order to promote their green transformation and achieve rural ecological revitalization. The paths for the government to empower rural enterprises to participate in rural ecological revitalization included: promoting the government′s institutional empowerment of rural enterprises——issuing and implementing rural ecological environment standards, relevant punishment policies for rural enterprises′ pollution behaviors, a green financial support policy system for rural enterprises, market principles for the promotion and application of rural environmental protection technology, building a socialized service platform for rural enterprises to implement green production and operation activities, and promoting the legalization of green regulatory policies and measures for rural enterprises; promoting the government′s technological empowerment of rural enterprises——encouraging and guiding rural enterprises to adopt green technologies and pursue park-based development; promoting cultural empowerment of rural enterprises by the government——cultivating the awareness of green production and operation of rural enterprises, creating a green corporate culture.

Enhancing the development level of the new quality rural productive forces in counties is a key path to promote the modernization of agriculture and rural revitalization in Chengdu, a mega-city in China. Based on the county statistical data from 2011 to 2022, the article conducted an in-depth study on the development level of the new quality rural productive forces, regional differences, and spatial and temporal evolution characteristics in counties of Chengdu, by using the entropy value method, the Dagum Gini coefficient method, the Kernel density estimation, and the spatial Markov chain. The results showed that, from 2011 to 2022, the development level of the new quality rural productive forces in counties of Chengdu exhibited an upward trend, however, the development of different functional subdivisions was unbalanced, presenting the trend of "East>South>West>North". The overall difference was fluctuating downward, inter-regional differences were the main source, with the average value of the Gini coefficient for some inter-regional comparisons exceeding 0.150, restricting the synergistic development. From the point of view of spatial and temporal evolution, the development level was increasing, and the dynamic differentiation was obvious, the absolute gap between counties was widening, spatial development inertia was strong, and cross-type transfer was difficult. Accordingly, it is recommended to cultivate new agricultural management subjects, strengthen the agricultural technology extension system, optimize agricultural policy support, strengthen the foundation of factor support, and deeply empower digital agricultural development to promote the high quality development of new quality rural productive forces in counties of Chengdu.

Under the background of the rapid development of the dairy cattle farming industry in Inner Mongolia, scientifically evaluating production efficiency and cost-benefit performance has great significance.It helps clarify the distribution of benefits across different farming scales, and enhances resource allocation efficiency. This study used cost-benefit data from dairy cattle farming in Inner Mongolia, applying data envelopment analysis（DEA） to measure production efficiency and ANOVA to analyze differences in the cost-profit ratios. The results showed that, from 2012 to 2023, the production efficiency of dairy cattle farming in Inner Mongolia exhibited a fluctuating trend, with an average comprehensive efficiency of 0.858, pure technical efficiency of 0.895, and scale efficiency of 0.956. Thus it could be seen the comprehensive efficiency and pure technical efficiency of large-scale farms were significantly higher than medium-scale farms, and scale efficiency was significantly higher than small-scale farms. The average cost-profit ratio was 5.538% for small-scale farms, 10.781% for medium-scale farms, and 23.946% for large-scale farms, with large-scale farms significantly outperforming than the other two. There was a significant positive correlation between production efficiency and the cost-profit ratio.On the basis of achieving a high level of scale efficiency, improving pure technical efficiency is the key to enhancing overall efficiency in dairy cattle farming in Inner Mongolia. It is recommended that policies be implemented to guide small-scale farmers to moderately expand their farming scale, support medium-scale farms in adopting advanced technologies to improve pure technical efficiency, and help large-scale farms optimize operations at scale management and resource allocation, thereby achieving coordinated improvement in production efficiency and cost-profit ratios and promoting high-quality development of the dairy industry in Inner Mongolia.

Agricultural technological innovation is the key engine for the development of new quality rural productive forces. Based on the TOE framework, this study took 38 agricultural listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets from 2021 to 2023 as the research object, and systematically explored the synergistic mechanism of 7 conditional variables including technological R&D capability, technological R&D investment, and the comprehensive performance of enterprises in environmental, social, and corporate governance (corporate ESG performance) on the technological innovation of agricultural enterprises by fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). The study showed that: agricultural enterprise technology innovation was the result of multi-factor synergistic effect, and there was no necessary condition; there were two typical models to achieve a high level of technological innovation,namely, "ESG-subsidy-led" and "technology investment-regulation-driven", the former took ESG performance and government subsidies as core conditions,while the latter highlighted the synergistic effect of technological R&D investment, environmental regulation and big data industry development; corporate ESG performance and government subsidies showed the characteristics of high intensity and high consistency, and there was substitutability under specific conditions. Based on this, it is suggested that the agricultural enterprises integrate technological R&D capabilities, ESG system construction and digital transformation to build an innovation management system, and choose a technology innovation-driven path that is suitable for their own development by using the "ESG-subsidy-led" and "technology investment-regulation-driven" modes; the government establish a "subsidy + tax reduction and exemption + R&D interest discount" policy to promote the development of the big data industry and improve intellectual property protection, so as to provide theoretical basis and practical reference for the independent technological innovation and the development of new quality rural productive forces in China.

This paper took the development level of smart agriculture and tourism in Hunan Province as the research object, selected 18 indicators to construct a coupling coordination level evaluation system, and used the entropy weight method, coupling coordination degree model, gray correlation method, etc. to analyze the coupling coordination development level and temporal evolution of smart agriculture and tourism in Hunan Province from 2014 to 2023. The results showed that: the weights of the gross output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, the number of undergraduate agronomy graduates in colleges and universities, and the agricultural insurance premium income ranked among the top three in the smart agriculture index, while the weights of international tourism income, the proportion of added value of tourism and related industries to regional GDP, and the number of travel agencies ranked high in the tourism index. From 2014 to 2023, the coupling coordination degree of smart agriculture and tourism in Hunan Province increased from "the serious imbalance" in 2014 to "the primary coordination" in 2023, and the results of industrial integration were remarkable. The comprehensive score of smart agriculture continued to grow from 0.101 to 0.910, and the comprehensive score of tourism peaked at 0.737 in 2019, dropped to 0.240 from 2020 to 2022 due to the pandemic and rebounded to 0.468 in 2023(among them, the per capita consumption expenditure on education, culture and entertainment and agricultural insurance premium income of rural residents played the strongest driving role in tourism). The coupling coordination level of smart agriculture and tourism showed a trajectory of "fluctuating rise-decline due to the pandemic impact-recovery and improvement", at this stage, it has entered "the primary coordination" stage, indicating that there was always a win-win relationship between smart agriculture and tourism in the development process. In the tourism industry, the number of A-level tourist attractions, the number of travel agencies, and the proportion of added value of tourism and related industries to regional GDP had a significant role in supporting smart agriculture. Therefore, it is recommended to strengthen the deep integration of "smart agriculture + tourism" by leveraging the leading role of smart agriculture, establishing an "international agricultural tourism brand" cultivation mechanism, and activating the potential of gray correlation analysis. These measures will further optimize the industrial coordination mechanism, and help rural revitalization and high-quality development of the regional economy.

With the continuous implementation of inclusive finance and grassland subsidy rewards policies, herders′ incomes have risen, drivinen increased demand for household financial asset allocation. However, herder households still face prominent problems in financial asset selection, including limited financial product diversity in pastoral areas and homogenized asset selection behavior. Therefore, based on field research data on the financial assets of herder households, this article employed structural equation modeling to analyze the factors influencing their asset selection behavior. The research indicated that: household structure and economic characteristics had a significant positive effect on risky and stable investment behaviors, with economic characteristics had a greater effect on stable investments than on risky investment behavior; behavioral characteristics had a significant positive effect on risky investment behavior, but had no significant effect on stable investment behavior. Accordingly, recommendations are proposed to enhance differentiated financial education, enrich the supply of financial products, strengthen household economic capacity, and improve the financial service system in pastoral areas. These measures aimed to optimize herder households financial asset selection behavior, and support sustainable income growth for herders.

Enhancing farmers′ willingness to continue grain production is fundamental to ensuring national food security and maintaining social stability. This study focused on the relationship between land transfer contracts and farmers′ willingness to sustain grain production. Based on survey data from 477 grain-producing households across six provinces collected by the "National Rural Management Patterns" project team, a binary Logit regression model was employed to analyze the impact of land transfer contracts on farmers′ willingness to continue grain cultivation. The results indicated that: the standardization of land transfer contracts was significantly positively correlated with farmers′ willingness to continue grain production, and the signing of standardized and favorable contracts could effectively enhance this willingness. Conversely, the compensatory nature of land transfer contracts was negatively correlated with farmers′ willingness to continue grain production. The existence of land transfer rents will lead to an increase in the overall cost of grain cultivation, which will weaken farmers′ willingness to continue grain production. Additionally, farmers′ occupational differentiation moderated their sensitivity to contract characteristics, full-time farmers who were highly dependent on land income were more sensitive to the characteristics of land transfer contracts, while part-time farmers with diversified income sources showed relatively weaker sensitivity. Therefore, it is recommended to improve the relevant laws and regulations on land transfer contracts to strengthen the guarantee of contract stability, enhance guidance on land transfer rents to reasonably regulate rental levels, raise farmers′ awareness of land transfer contracts, and establish a linkage mechanism between land transfer contracts and government subsidies.

To gain an in-depth understanding and enhance the adaptability and sustainable development of agriculture in China, this article employed the agricultural resilience index, Theil index, and the factor detection function of a geographical detector to analyze the evolutionary characteristics and driving factors of agricultural resilience in China. The study found that, the evolution of agricultural resilience in China generally showed a fluctuating upward trend, with significant regional differences and stage-specific characteristics. The proposal of supply-side structural reforms and the new economic normal provided institutional guarantees for the sustainable development of agriculture. The improvement of agricultural resilience in the central and western regions reflected the effectiveness of policy support and infrastructure enhancements, while the decline in agricultural resilience in the northeastern region highlighted the constraints posed by a singular industrial structure and ecological environmental issues on agricultural development. The decomposed interval contribution rate showed a declining trend, with the intra-regional contribution rate being the main reason for differences in agricultural resilience. The spatial distribution pattern of agricultural resilience was gradually shifting from positive clustering to negative clustering, unaffected by the direct influence and homogenization trend of neighboring areas. The agricultural resilience in China has basically formed a multi-layered, multi-dimensional pattern based on locational factors and ecological environment, with policy systems as the pathway, and production efficiency and technological innovation as key factors.

New-type agricultural laborers′ green entrepreneurship provides significant practical exploration for advancing the green transformation of agriculture, and analyzing the process and internal logic of their green entrepreneurship is of practical significance. Based on the successful case of new-type agricultural laborers′ returning to hometowns for entrepreneurship to promote agricultural green development in G County, Yibin City, the practical mechanisms of new-type agricultural laborers′ green agricultural entrepreneurship were explored, and effective paths for advancement were proposed through investigation and research. The study was found that: local sentiment and resource accumulation, local support and agricultural technology empowerment, as well as entrepreneurial resilience and innovative management were indispensable supportive guarantees and core drivers for new-type agricultural laborers to promote green agricultural development. Measures should be taken to encourage new-type agricultural laborers to enhance their comprehensive abilities, improve the construction of supporting service systems, and refine policies for securing essential elements, etc.,facilitating their engagement in the green transformation and development of agriculture.

As an important agricultural production area in China, the dynamic correlation between runoff and crop yield in Ganjiang River Basin is of crucial importance for the sustainable development of regional agriculture. Based on the runoff and related data of rice and citrus yields in Ganzhou, Ji′an, and Nanchang from 2000 to 2023, this article used descriptive statistical analysis and correlation matrix analysis to empirically study the multivariate causal relationship; and took the time delay terms of river runoff and rice citrus yield as independent variables, with using multivariate time series regression, deeply discussed the dynamic response relationship between river runoff in Ganjiang River Basin and rice and citrus yields in Ganzhou, Ji′an, and Nanchang. The results showed that: there was a significant correlation between the runoff of rivers in Ganjiang River Basin and rice and citrus yields, represented by the runoff of Nanchang; the runoff of rivers in Ganjiang River Basin exhibited significant periodic changes, which significantly affected rice and citrus yields in this region. According to the empirical analysis results,it is predicted that citrus yield in Ji′an will tend to stabilize in the future, while rice and citrus yields in Ganzhou and Nanchang will show a relatively slight downward trend.

Rural households hold significant potential for tourism consumption. Promoting tourism consumption of rural households is an important driving force for expanding domestic demand and maintaining stable growth. This paper constructed a pooled cross-sectional dataset by using data from China family panel studies（CFPS） in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022, employed a two-way fixed effects model and mediating effect model to explore the direct impact of internet use on tourism consumption of rural households and the mediating effects of human capital and social capital. The result showed that, internet use had a significant positive impact on the increase of tourism consumption of rural households, human capital and social capital had mediating effects on the relationship between internet use and tourism consumption of rural households, with social capital having a greater mediating effect. The heterogeneity analysis indicated that, internet use had a stronger promoting effect on tourism consumption of rural households in eastern regions, those with non-agricultural employment and higher income levels. Therefore, efforts should be made to actively promote the construction of digital villages to increase the internet penetration rate in rural areas, establishing a digital literacy cultivation system and improve the mechanism for accumulating social capital, accurately identifing different levels of consumer groups to implement differentiated tourism product supply.

Industrial innovation is an important direction and inevitable choice for promoting the high-quality development of rural industries in the era of digital economy. Drawing on industrial economic theories, this paper constructed a mechanism model for the role of industrial innovation in the high-quality development of the tea industry, and defined this development from the perspective of the digital economy. Employing a multinomial logistic model and 336 samples of data from tea enterprises and tea farmers through stratified random sampling, a systematic theoretical and empirical analysis was systematically conducted from five innovation dimensions of market, technology, product, organization, and resource allocation. The results showed that, the brand innovation, variety innovation, processing innovation, institutional innovation, and production factor integration innovation all had positive impacts on the high-quality development of the tea industry, and were significant factors affecting the high-quality development of the tea industry. According to the influence coefficient values of the model, institutional innovation（3.662） exerted the greatest influence on the high-quality development of the tea industry by optimizing the industry-university-research collaboration mechanism. Production factor integration innovation（3.557）, which promoted the efficient allocation of land and capital, had the next most significant impact. Variety innovation（2.197） and brand innovation（1.549） emerged as major influencing factors by enhancing unit yield levels and product premium, respectively. The impact of processing innovation（1.068） was relatively weak. Based on this, it is recommended to strengthen institutional innovation, focus on brand building, and optimize factor allocation to accelerate the realization of the high-quality development of the tea industry.