Abstract: As an important part of Chinese-style modernization,agricultural and rural modernization is the foundation and support for realizing the leap from a large agricultural country to a powerful agricultural country.By combing through the course of agricultural and rural modernization in major developed countries or regions such as Japan,South Korea,America and the European Union,it is found that different countries have made different choices of paths under their own natural endowments,institutional environments and even historical opportunities,and at the same time further reflecting regular features of agricultural and rural modernization,such as the asynchronous nature of phases,the equilibrium of urban and rural development,and the modernization of rural governance.From the perspective of international comparison,Chinas agricultural and rural modernization is a kind of common modernization of “a big country with small scale agricultural operations”,which faces the historical constraints of small farm economy and traditional village structure,but also shoulders the mission of building a strong socialist modernized country,and at the same time,needs to satisfy the essential requirement of realizing the common wealth of all people.Therefore,Chinas agricultural and rural modernization construction should not only follow general laws,but also be based on its own national and agricultural conditions,accurately grasp the temporal and spatial coordinates of agricultural and rural modernization,take the integration of urban and rural areas at the county level as the starting point,and explore the Chinese path of agricultural and rural modernization with the support of diversified governance in rural areas.

Key words: agriculture and rural modernization, international experience, Chinese characteristics