Exploration and Practice of County Rural Revitalization Strategy Supported by Science and Technology of Provincial Agricultural Scientific Research Institutions—A Case Study of Cooperation between Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Dongyuan County

Implementing the rural revitalization strategy is a major strategic deployment made at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It is necessary to explore the development path of county-based rural revitalization strategy supported by science and technology of provincial agricultural research institutions, which is of great demonstration significance to solve the unbalanced development in urban and rural areas and the insufficiency of rural development in Guangdong. Taking the“Academy-County”cooperation between Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Dongyuan County as an example, based on the local working platform of modern agriculture promotion center coconstructed by the Academy and the County, the cooperation was started from the system and mechanism to promote scientific and technological resources and talents to “enter into enterprises and villages” under the guidance of planning and by means of the service of the whole industrial chain. In this way, a scientific and technological cooperation model featuring government guidance, enterprise leadership and scientific and technological support was established gradually. Thanks to the scientific and technological cooperation of the Academy, local government and enterprises, the science and technology level of agricultural industry development in Dongyuan County has been improved constantly, with thriving new agricultural business entities and competitive featured brands. The rural science and technology commissioners have highlighted their roles, and preliminary successes have been achieved in the scientific and technological cooperation of government, enterprises and academy. All of these have created a sound ground for pushing the county-based rural revitalization strategy supported by science and technology. In view of the problems such as insufficient mobilization of various forces in the Academy and the County, shortage of complementary advantages in promotion forces of agricultural technology and lagging development of new agricultural business entities, some countermeasures and suggestions are proposed to further strengthen the organizational leadership of the government, form joint work force, strengthen the effect of platform to improve the promotion capacity of agricultural technology at primary level, deepen the cooperation of government, enterprises and academy, make leading enterprises more powerful and prominent ones, increase capital investment, and guide the accumulation of social resources.