| 【Objective】 The study is conducted to better learn and draw lessons from the beneficial experience of urban
agriculture development in domestic advanced cities, and to further clarify the strategic thinking and path of urban agriculture.
【Method】The advanced cities in China such as Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu are
selected for field investigation and literature comparative study.【Result】The six megacities have different natural conditions
and resource endowments, and their agricultural development has certain similarity and different regional characteristics,
which basically represents the development of urban agriculture in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and southwest
China. In 2019, the added value of primary industry of the six megacities accounted for 1.1%, 0.3%, 0.3%, 2.1%, 7.6% and 3.6% of the GDP of these megacities, respectively.【Conclusion】Based on the comparative analysis of the domestic advanced
cities, Guangzhou has some major shortcomings in urban agriculture development: the underperforming advantageous practice of
integrated city-empowered agriculture, the low level of scaling up and systematizing the agricultural industry, and the weak capacity
of developing the whole agricultural industry chain. Based on the above explanations, the suggested strategic ideas and directions
are as follows: to develop pivotal urban agriculture to transform it from small agriculture to big agriculture, from decentralized
agriculture to intensive and centralized agriculture, from extensive agriculture to refined and characteristic agriculture, and from
traditional mass products to branded agricultural products; to expand the whole agricultural industry chain to improve agricultural
competitiveness; to strengthen industrial integration to achieve mutual empowerment and support between industries; to cultivate
“sophisticated and advanced” and “famous and special” green agricultural products; to develop leisure agriculture and rural
tourism, and to focus on building modern agricultural industrial parks. |
