Abstract: Guided by the new development concept, this paper constructs the evaluation index system of China's agricultural high-quality development, which includes the five basic dimensions of “innovation, coordination, greenness, opening up and sharing”, so as to conduct a measurement and regional comparison of the level of agricultural high-quality development in China and in each province from 2013 to 2017. It also employs the exploratory spatial data analyzing method to analyze the comprehensive index of agricultural high-quality development and the spatial distribution characteristics of its secondary indexes. The results show that the overall agricultural high-quality development level in China presents a rising trend, while“opening up”and“innovation”are the weak links. The agricultural high-quality development comprehensive index and the secondary indexes of “innovation”, “coordination”,“opening up”and“sharing”are manifested as“Higher in the East and Lower in the West”, while the index of“greenness”is“Higher in the West and Lower in the East”. The gap between the four regions is narrowing gradually. There are significant differences in the high-quality development level among the provinces, and there are advantages and disadvantages which match with the regional characteristics. The agricultural high-quality development comprehensive index and its secondary indexes show the clustering characteristics at different degrees in space, which is mainly manifested in the dual distribution mode of“high-high”and“low-low”. We should take innovation as the core driving force and the opening up and cooperation as the path to further deepen the agricultural supply-side structural reform, and we should plan the agricultural high-quality development direction of each region according to the local conditions.

Key words: agricultural high-quality development, new development concept, evaluation index system