The agricultural product processing industry is the key fulcrum for breaking through the transformation dilemma

The agricultural product processing industry naturally possesses the characteristics of industrial-social integration, such as the value exchange between industry and agriculture, between urban and rural industries and resources. Its development process is both a process of agricultural industrialization, informatization and the application of new technologies and new capital, and a process for rural areas and farmers to share the fruits of urbanization and industrialization. The agricultural product processing industry holds a strategic position and role in breaking through the current transformation problems of urban-rural social and economic development, and in promoting the balanced and sustainable development of new industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization and informatization:

First, promoting industrial integration development through the agricultural product processing industry is an effective method and approach for breaking through the current difficulties in China's industrial and economic development, solving insufficient domestic demand, promoting the transformation of development modes, breaking down barriers and gaps between industries, and driving the realization of market value. The transformation of China's social and economic development mode is shifting from external demand-driven to a development strategy that places equal emphasis on both internal and external demand. It is necessary to solve the connection problem between effective supply and effective demand between the primary and secondary industries, as well as the problems of diversion and employment in the transformation process of primary industry development, and further extend to the development problems of the tertiary industry. In essence, it is about solving the market distortions caused by the mismatch between supply and demand in China's current social and economic development, as well as the imbalances in urban-rural social and economic development, income distribution structure, industrial structure and other aspects. The development of the agricultural product processing industry provides an opportunity and possibility for the transformation and structural adjustment of China's manufacturing industry.

Second, the development of the agricultural product processing industry can adjust the inter-regional industrial division of labor in China, promote the rearrangement of territorial planning and functional zoning according to the characteristics of resource structure, and promote a rational economic structure layout between regions and the balanced and stable development of regional economies. Against the backdrop of economic globalization, China adopted an unbalanced development strategy of coastal industrialization and urbanization in the early stage of reform and opening up. While this greatly promoted China's industrialization and modernization, it brought about problems such as unbalanced regional economic development, imbalanced regional population distribution, increasingly prominent contradictions in the pattern of agricultural products being produced in the west and consumed in the east, persistently high logistics costs for agricultural products, and weak and insufficient primary processing at agricultural product production sites. The localized development of the agricultural product processing industry combined effectively with primary agricultural production raw material bases can not only promote the social and economic development of rural areas and drive local employment, but also provide new opportunities for alleviating regional development imbalances, stabilizing the layout of the agricultural product processing industry, and promoting collaborative development between the east and the west.

Third, the agricultural product processing industry drives farmers engaged in primary product production into the terminal market, thereby resolving the contradiction between small farmers and the large market, and achieving the scaling-up and modernization of agricultural production organizations. The current development of the agro-industrial system in modern developed agriculture has already formed an industrial organizational structure featuring the integration of agriculture, industry and commerce centered on agricultural product processing and value enhancement. Among these, the agricultural product processing industry occupies a critically important position in terms of value-added enhancement in the agricultural product value chain, the proportion of investment in the agricultural industry chain, food industry and food security assurance, the construction and organizational division of labor of the agro-industrial system, and value realization and distribution.

Fourth, with the arrival of the post-industrial era of information and knowledge technology innovation, the traditional industrial-era concepts of processing and industrial integration have been broken, which provides new opportunities and possibilities for the modernization of new agriculture and agricultural industrialization, as well as the development of creative agriculture and leisure multifunctional agriculture, and for promoting the realization of rural value in the context of marketization and informatization. The new information network technology revolution has completely overturned and broken the industrial segmentation problems brought about by traditional scale and geographical separation, achieving the most direct and effective low-cost connection and value realization from production to consumption at extremely low cost, and also providing a new technological pathway for resolving the current contradiction between small farmers and the market in China. As human society enters the post-industrial era and the information era, experiential consumption and the experience economy provide a new possibility for the realization of rural and agricultural product value. The rural economy has entered a new stage of joint development of the service economy and the real economy, and rural leisure tourism and sightseeing have become a counter-urbanization behavior for urban residents to satisfy their natural psychological needs under the urban-rural separation in China.