Taking a broad view, this book systematically explains China’s agriculture, rural areas and farmers by delving back into history, beginning from agricultural civilization, through the systems and thinking patterns of ancient China, to a vigorous analysis of the development path of agriculture and rural areas since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and from historic change in rural areas after China’s reform and opening up to the establishment of a policy system to strengthen, benefit, and enrich agriculture in the new era.