Abstract: In recent years, the weak support of agricultural development has been weakening the international competitiveness of agriculture in terms of variety, quality and cost, and has resulted in many serious consequences. The minimum purchase price and the temporary purchase and storage policy started from 2004 not only failed to reverse the situation but intensified this trend in the later period of the implementation of such policies. Since 2014, the state has initiated a new round of reform of price support policies for agricultural products. Although it has not completely reversed its competitive disadvantage, it has achieved certain results in strengthening market mechanism, improving trade situation and accelerating agricultural transformation. However, there are such problems as foreign policies with strong technical rationality having reduced the feasibility due to lack of effective support conditions for domestic implementation, the market-oriented reform having triggered the decrease of farmers’ income, and the delaying of the planting structure adjustment caused by the disruption of crop price relation in the early stage of the reform. Next, we need to improve the policy effect and improve the international competitiveness of agriculture by improving the production conditions, consolidating the industrial base, weakening government intervention, strengthening the market role, aiming at cost-saving and quality-improving, preventing trade risks, enhancing the competitiveness of small farmers, strengthening the construction of basic data, and other measures.

Key words: price support policy for agricultural products; international competitiveness of agriculture; rural population transfer; agriculture-supporting policy