中文摘要：

继中国特色市场经济、中国特色社会主义第三个阶段探索之后，中国正在进行生态文明建设的综合性探索，生态文明超越了后工业文明时代人类的各种探索性努力，可能成为继农业文明、工业文明之后的第三代人类文明。作为生态文明建设的最重要部分，发展生态农业，也在改造传统农业、改造现代农业之后，成为农业发展的第三阶段探索。生态农业重视发挥农业的多种功能，促进农业的可持续发展，带来了现代农业的多元面孔。生态农业是改造现代农业的主要选择形式。

英文摘要：

The ecological civilization, after the exploration of socialism market economy with Chinese characteristics, will become the third generation human civilization after agricultural civilization and industrial civilization. As the most important part of ecologi- cal civilization construction, the ecological agriculture has become an effort of agriculture development, after the transforming tradi- tional agriculture and transforming modem agriculture. The ecological agriculture pay more attention to multi-function of agriculture and sustainable development, is the major alternative way of transforming modern agriculture.