The country presently obtains nearly 6,000 effective results in agricultural scientific technology research every year, and such technological progress is expected to increasingly contribute to the agriculture in future.
China specified the San Jiang Plain as the concentrated national agricultural development districts in 1988, and invested 700 million yuan in first-phase construction up to 1990. The second phase began in 1991, and the total investments up to 2000 are planned to amount to 3.4 billion yuan.
So far, 3.5km2 of land has been exploited achieving 3.13 million ton of grain yields. While the development is carried on with the aid of loans from the World Bank, Japan, etc., various kinds of foreign-capital preferred policies have been introduced to promote the development further. Thus, this scheme aims to make rapid progress with a huge agricultural development project based on land improvement in the plain, and is considered to be very likely lead to multinational economic cooperation.
San Jiang Plain, as the total agricultural development district, has been divided into 306 development districts, where 326 development items have been carried out. These attempts have covered 69 counties, cities, and wards, and 96 farmlands (incl. pastures) and fishing grounds in Heilongjiang. Likewise, enormous agricultural development projects are going on in Jilin and Liaoning, too. The central government has already specified the San Jiang Plain, the Song Riao Plain, and the Riao He Plain as its focal areas for agricultural development, and expects to promote constructions of food production bases through large-scale investments.
Bibliography
1) Jilin Province Statistics Bureau, "The 4th Population Census", 1990
2) Wang Shengjin, "Researches on Labor Resources： reference to Economic and Technological Cooperation in Northeast Asia" p.36, "Northeast Asia Press", Northeast Asian Studies College, Jilin University, 1991.
3) ibid (as 2)), p.38.
4) Organized excerpts from the 1990 Statistical Yearbooks of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjian Provinces, p.36, 199
