CHINA’S CIRCULAR AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT POLICY: SOME LESSONS

Abstract

Driven by mounting food security pressures and the severe environmental consequences of a resource-intensive farming model, China has transformed to circular agriculture through a synchronous policy system spanning more than two decades. The article has used secondary materials and relevant policy and legal documents to generalise the policies to promote circular agriculture of the Chinese government and contrast with Vietnam's policies. Thereby, drawing experience in building an inter-sectoral coordination mechanism; switching from input subsidies to payments based on environmental results; replicating the model of regional linkage according to ecology; increasing the value of export-oriented products and promoting investment in digital technology..., in accordance with the institutional capacity and scale of agricultural production of the country.