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Can Rural Entrepreneurship Promote the Development of New-Quality Productive Forces in Agriculture?—Evidence from China

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Accelerating the development of new-quality productive forces in agriculture represents an intrinsic requirement for achieving high-quality agricultural development and serves as a new driver and engine for advancing rural revitalization. This study utilized panel data from 30 Chinese provinces to construct and validate a mechanistic model examining the interactive relationship between rural entrepreneurship and new-quality productive forces in agriculture, exploring whether rural entrepreneurship can promote the development of new-quality productive forces in agriculture. The findings reveal the following: First, rural entrepreneurship can provide strong support for the development of new-quality productive forces in agriculture. Second, rural entrepreneurship facilitates the improvement of new-quality productive forces in agriculture by promoting agricultural technological innovation. However, this process requires surpassing a single threshold of agricultural technological innovation. Third, rural entrepreneurship contributes to the elevation of new-quality productive forces in agriculture by fostering rural industrial integration; nevertheless, this process encounters dual thresholds in rural industrial integration. Finally, rural entrepreneurial activities exhibit spatial spillover effects on the development of new-quality productive forces in agriculture in neighboring regions. This study explores novel approaches to fostering new-quality productive forces in agriculture and unlocks the “black box” linking rural entrepreneurship with these forces.

Source: Sustainability

DOI: 10.3390/su172310676

Authors: Xuejiao Xu, Kun Zhang

Institutions: Beihua University, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics

Language: English

Topic: Regional Development and Environment

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Zero hunger

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,896