●Foreword
Chapter 1 China's Time-honored Agi：icultural Civilization
Section 1 The Origin and Creation of Chinese Agriculture
Section 2 The Oriental Mindset and Four Millennia of Agriculture
Section 3 The Main Agricultural Systems in Ancient ChIna
Chapter 2 PainfuIExploration of Agriculturaland Rural Development
Section 1 New China： Dirt Poor and All to Be Done
Section 2 Rural Land Reform： Striking Where It Hurt
Section 3 Formation of the State Monopoly on Purchasing and Marketing System
Section 4 The Cooperation Movement and the People's Commune System
Section 5 Why China Chose the Development Path of Rural Collective Land Ownership
Chapter 3 Huge RuralChanges： From Reformand Opening Up to the Turn of the New Millennium/iis
Section 1 Agricultural Production Returned to Farming Households
Section 2 Gradual Revival of the Market Mechanism for Farm Produce
Section 3 Boom in Rural Economy Under ltiple Ownership Systems
Section 4 From Rural Labor to Human Capital
Chapter 4 Establishment of the Policy System to Boost Agriculture， Benefit Farmers， and Increase Their Incomes in the New Millennium
Section 1 Establishment of "Top Priority ldeology
Section 2 New Campaign to Develop Modern Agriculture
Section 3 Great Efforts to Increase Farmers'Incomes
Section 4 Building a New Socialist Countryside
Section 5 Resolutely Fighting for Victory in the Battle Against Poverty
Section 6 Better Protection of Farmers' Land-Centered Property Rights
Section 7 Establishing Institutions for Integrated Urban and Rural Development
Section 8 Improving the Rural Governance Mechanism
Section 9 Outlook for the Future Development of China's Agriculture and Rural Areas
Bibhography

中國是一個農業大國，農業、農村和農民問題一直貫穿著中國歷史的發展。新中國成立後，農業、農村和農民問題更是中國共產黨和中國政府全部工作中的“重中之重”。讀懂中國農業、農村和農民，是讀懂中國歷史和文化的起點，也是理解當代中國經濟社會現狀的邏輯原點。本書分四章，分別從悠久的中國農業文明、新中國成立至20世紀80年代對中國農業農村發展道路的艱難探索、改革開放至21世紀初中國農村巨變、新世紀以來中國強農惠農富農政策體繫的建立等方面梳理了中國農業在各歷史時期的發展、面臨的困難及政策舉措。全書架構清晰、分析客觀、數據翔實、史料豐富，在有限的篇幅內用盡量大眾化的語言為讀者展現出一幅中國農業發展的長卷。從源頭為讀者釋義中國農業發展的脈絡及目前發展狀況，解答了中國“三農”問題為何關繫國家發展、經歷了哪些發展過程及今後如何發展。