规模经营对中国现阶段的农业发展重要吗？

Is Scale Operation Vital to the Development of Agriculture in Contemporary China?

农业现代化对于中国社会经济的进一步发展非常重要。为了提高农业生产效率,政府提倡农业规模化经营。然而,我们认为,规模经营对现阶段的中国农业发展并不重要。因为,从中国国情来看,农业生产效率的提高主要受制于成本,而非规模;中国农业人口多,非农就业的压力很大;中国的人地资源比例不同于欧美,规模经营并不是我们的"中国特色";从中国历史来看,小农经济一直有较高的适应能力,并且为中国经济发展作出了巨大贡献。目前的需求变化和技术进步,尤其是互联网和大数据的发展为中国小农经济的再发展提供了历史机遇,因此小农经济并没有过时。

The modernization of agriculture is exceptionally vital to further develop China’s social economy. The government advocates scale operation in agriculture in order to increase agricultural productivity. However, we hold that business scale is not necessarily important for Chinese agricultural development. Given the status quo in China, agricultural productivity is subject to cost rather than scale. The rural population is huge in China while the country is encountered with high pressure of non-agricultural employment. Different from European and American countries in population-vs.-land ratio, scale business is anything'Chinese characteristics'. In light of Chinese history, small-scale peasant economy has long been agreeable and contributed greatly to Chinese economy and development. The current change in demand and the technological advancement,especially the development Internet and big data, provide historical chance for re-developing small-scale peasant economy which is accordingly not obsolete.