本文回顾了中国农业地理与乡村发展学科的简要发展历程,分析了本学科近年来的研究进展、取得的重要成果及其在区域农业与农村发展决策实践中的应用。通过比较国内外相关领域的研究进展,进一步讨论了适应新时期国家战略需求的中国农业地理与乡村发展创新研究的主要任务和科学命题。中国农业地理与乡村发展学科的最新研究进展归纳为研究成果、新方法与新技术应用、基础研究平台建设与人才培养等方面。其中新近研究成果主要包括:①农业与乡村地理学综合研究;②农村空心化与空心村整治;③新农村建设综合研究;④区域农业与乡村发展研究;⑤研究成果的系统化与国际化。
This paper firstly reviews the brief development course of the disciplines of agricultural geography and rural development in China, then introduces the recent major achievements and their applications in econom- ic development, finally demostrates the prospect on the new innovative research tasks and scientific proposals in the fields of agricultural geography and rural development to meet the needs of national strategies, based on comparison with related research progress abroad. Recent research progress includes research achievements, the applications of new technologies and methodologies, the establishment of basic research platforms, and talents fostering programmes. The summary of recent research achievements concerns five topics: (1) integrated re- search on agricultural and rural geography; (2) rural hollowing and the renovation of hollowed villages; (3) inte- grated research on building a new countryside; (4) regional agriculture and rural development; and (5) the sys- tematization and internationalization of research achievements. With the implementation of the strategy on "building a new countryside," relative research concerning new countryside construction and the renovation of hollowed villages has attracted the interest of a wide variety of researchers in China. Recent research results indi- cated that the evolutive process of rural hollowing can be identified into five stages, i.e., emergence, growth; flourishing, stability, and decline. Based on regional economic development level and its physiographic features, the types of rural hollowing can be categorized as urban fringe, plain agricultural region, hilly agricultural re- gion, and agro-pastoral region. Especially, the plain agriculatral region is the most typical one in rural hollow- ing, which shows the spatial evolution of rural hollowing as a "poached egg" pattern with a layered hollow core and solid shape. Furthermore, the driving forces behind rural hollowing are identified as the pull of cities and the push