Contemporary issues discussed during the Symposium included such aspects as strategy of sustainable development, technological innovations, economic growth, social development, sustainable agriculture,resource utilization, ecological balance and environmental protection. In addition, the Chinese model for sustainable agricultural and rural development embedded in the resilient and dynamic agricultural sector in the country, as well as selected other countries experience in this field were thoroughly discussed with the view of drawing pragmatic and operational approaches to SARD in various countries. Lessons of experience based on country experiences were also derived and carefully analyzed during the Symposium.

Foreword

Beijing Proposals

Part Ⅰ Addresses, Speeches and Summary of Panels' Discussion

Opening Address by Prof. Hui Yongzheng, Vice Minister of the State Science and Technology Commission, Chairman of ISSARD 1993

Address by Mr. Wu Yixia, Vice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, PRC

Address International Symposium On Sustainable Agriculture And Rural Development

 He Kang, Vice Chairman of China Association for Science and Technology(CAST)

Speech at the Opening Ceremony by Dr. H. de Haen, Assistant Director General of FAO

Sharing Responsibility For Sustainable Agriculture And Rural Development

 G. J. M. Braks, Former Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries of the Netherlands

Address by J. Petrov, First Deputy Minister, Ministry of Agriculture,Bulgaria

Sustainable Afeixulture And Human Development

 Dr. Friedrich Mumm von Mallinckrodt, Principal Technique Advisor, UNDP

Speech at the Opening Ceremony by Dr. F. K. Bishay, Chief, Policy and Planning Service, Policy Analysis, FAO

Speech by Chairman of Panel 1

 Prof. Liu Xunhao, Beijing Agricultural University, China

Speech by Chairman of Panel 2

 Prof. Charles F. Framingham, University of Manitoba, Canada

Speech by Chairman of Panel 3

 Prof. Jiang Jianping, Macro Agriculture Rsearch Department, CAAS

Speech by Chairmen of Panel 4

 Prof. Wang Qianzhong, Chinese Association of Agricultural Scientists

Speech at the Closing Ceremony by Dr. F. K. Bishay, Chief, Policy and Planning Service, Policy Analysis Division, FAO

Closing Speech on International Symposium on Sustainable Agriculture And Rural Development(ISSARD1993)

 Prof. Lu Liangshu, Vice Chairman of ISSARD'93, Chairman of Academic Commission

Part Ⅱ Strategy for Sustainable Agricultural Development

Strategies Towards Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development

 H.de.Haen

Incorporation of Environmental and Sustainable Development Considerations into Agricultural Planning and Policy Analysis in Developing Countries: Lessons of Experience from China

 F. K. Bishay

Accelerating the Development of Modern Intensive Sustainable Agriculture through Scientific and Technology Innovation and Application

 Lu Liangshu and Wang Qianzhong

Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in China

 Zhang Qiaoling

Analysis on the Development of High-Input and High-Efficiency Sustainable Agroecosystem in China

 Mei Fangquan and Gu Shuzhong

Intensive Sustainable Agriculture: A Better Choice for China and Other Developing Countries

 Liu Xunhao

Sustainable Agriculture and a New Green Revolution

 World Food Council Secretariat.

Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Policy in China

 Scott Rozelle and Huang Jikun

Economic and Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Agriculture

 Martin H. Yeh

The Perspectives on Sustainable Agriculture in Taiwan

 Ching-kai Hsiao

Some Aspects of Sustainable Agriculture in Hungary

 Imre Lanszki and Istvan Fesus

Conversion of Conventional Agriculture into Sustainable Farming

 V. Topalov, R. Angelova and Hr. Traikov

The Development of Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Economy in East China of Mid-Subtropic Zone

 Peng Tingbai and Chen Xin

A Model of Land Evaluation for Sustainable Farming in Bulgaria: Lesson from Region

 Christo Nechev

Development Strategy for High-Efficiency Sustainable Forestry in China

 Guan Jingfen

Studies on Sustainable of Development Fishery in China

 Wu Wanfu and Yang Ningsheng

Factors on Agricultural Sustainable Development--The Investigation on Tongxian, Longhai and Yanchang Counties

 Deng Qinghai

Reclamation of Saline-Alkaline Land and Rural Development in Quzhou Area of North China Plain

 Yu Zhenrong, Hao Jinmin, Xin Dehui and L.i Ji

Development Strategy of Sustainable Agriculture in Shanghai

 Cai Yizhong, Gan Jintian and Wang Chunpi.ng

Integrated Modelling of Alternative Agricultural Systems

 Jian C. Ma and Tony Prato

Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development : The Importance of Conserving Water Resources through Reforestation

 C. L. Luh

Part Ⅲ Socio-economic Development and Sustainable Agriculture

The Economics of Soil, Water and Crop Management in Dryland Regions: A Farming Systems Analysis for West Africa

 John C. Day, David W. Hughes, and Walter R. Butcher.

Importance of a Proper Land Concept Achieving Sustainable Development

 Tony Prato

Institutional Structures and Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Agriculture

 Charles F. Framingham, Martiu H. Yeh, Karen J. Framingham and James. A. MacMillan

The Scale Problem in Agriculture: Some Lessons for China to Heed

 Kang Chao

Development of Farm Household Economy: A Key Factor for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Economic Development

 Nguyen Huu Tien

Tenure Uncertainty and Sustainable Development in the Pastoral Region

 Greg J. Williamson and John W. Longworth

Sustainable Agricultural Development on the Loess Plateau

 Abert Park and Li Gou

The Features of Sustainable Agricultural Development in China

 Liu Zhicheng

Thinking on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

 Niu Ruofeng

On the Sustainable Development of Agriculture during the Agro-Modernzation under the Market Economy

 Zhu Daohua

A Significant Transition and Sustainable Development for Animal Husbandry in China

 Shi Zhaolin and Yu Xueli

Evaluation of Sustainable Agriculture: An Analysis of Grain Yields in China

 Huang Jikun and Scott Rozelle

System Dynamic Study on Agricultural Sustainable Development for Husbandry in China

 Qin Fu

A Forecasting and Decision Model of High-Yielding Forestry in Ju County, Shandong Province

 Liu Can

Rural Social System and Agricultural Sustainable Development in China

 Wang Yanming

Part Ⅳ Technological Progress and Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Sugar-Beet Production in the UK

 T. H. Thomas and K. W. Jagg

Approaches to Sustainable Arable Farming in the UK

 T. Lewis, T. H. Thomas and G. V.Hood.

Use of Biotechnology in Sustainable Agriculture

 Yao-Chi Lu

Technology Adoption and Innovation for Sustainable Development of Agriculture

 J. H. J. Spiertz and P. H. Vere

Contribution of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia in the Field of Agricultural Development Research

 Abdulrahman I. Alabdula'aly

New Agricultural Technology and Developing Countries

 Stevan Hadzivukovic and Danilo Tomic

Technologies for Sustainable Food Production in Sri Lanka

 Herath P. M. Gunasena

Sustainability of the Rice-Wheat Cropping System: A Perspective of Indigenous Farm Practices and Long-Term Crop Productivity in Nepal's Tarai

 A S.. Bhandari

Sustainable Red Soil Development via Low-Input Tech: The Case of the PRC-ADB Hunan Province Red Soils Development Project

 W. A. Stoop

Cropping Systems Combining Grain, Cash and Forage Crops for Sustainable Agriculture

 Zhang Xigu, Li Pingping and Bian Xinmin

Sustainable System for Crop Production in Taiwan

 Sung-Ching Hsieh

Non-Pollution Vegetable Production by Using Poultry Manure

 Zheng Guanghua and Jiao Bin

Interface Engineering in Agriculture and Its Application

 Wen Hua, Qian Youshan and Wang Chaotie

The Green Revolution and Sustainable Agriculture in China

 Jiang Jianping and Wang Dongyang

Selected Mechanization--Strategy of Agricultural Mechanization in

 China as a Developing Country

 Yao Jianfu

The Role of Scientific and Technological Progress in Sustainable Fishery Development

 Zhou Qicai

Study on the Technological System for Chinese Sustanable Agriculture

 Zhang Renwu, Ji Wenying and Zhang Tong

The Sustainable Agriculture and High Quality and High Yield Fishery Development

 Xie Zhen

Accelerating Scientific and Technical Progress to Impulse Sustained

 Development of Agriculture

 Gu Huanzhang, Gu Jiang and Zhang Jinhua

Part Ⅴ Resources, Ecology, Environment and Agricultural Sustainable Development

Organic Food and Farming: Development of Ecologically Sound

 Agriculture around the World

 Roger Blobaum

A Uniform System for Studying and Management of Agroecosystems

 R. Angelova, V. Topalov and Hr. Traikov

An Approach to Prevent Ecological Damage in Agricultural Production

 Raanan Katzir.

The Role of Soil Management in Sustainable Agriculture for China's Rural Development

 S. Porth, Jin Jiyun, J. Wang and Wu Ronggui

The Sustainable Water Use

 Dan Zaslavsky

The Role of Legumes in Modem Sustainable Cropping Systems

 D. Gareth Jones

Ecological Prerequisites for Sustainable Economic Development and Conservation of Natural Resources

 Frank McCormick.

Role of Agro-environmental Protection in Development of Sustainable Agriculture in China

 Tao Zhan

The Development of Ecology and the Future of Mankind

 Bu Jiuyu

A Large Country with Limited Resources: National Strategies for the Development of Agricultural and Rural Resources in China

 He Xiping

Paying Attention to the Comprehensive Benefits of Agriculture

 Gao Liang and Xia Rongji

The Plant Resources Are Important Material Base for Human Subsistence

 Yin Wanfen and Zhuang Huili

The Experience of Ecological Agricultural Research and Extension in China

 Luo Shiming

An Accounting System for Forestry ReSources Is Imperative

 Kong Fanwen and Liu Dongsheng

Arable Land Resources and Sustained DevelOpment of Crop Farming in China

 Wei Bingchuan

China's Ecological Agriculture as an Approach Toward Sustainable Agriculture

 Wu Jianjun and Wang Zhaoqian

Ecological Small-holding and Sustainable Agriculture

 Wang Qianzhong

Resource- Generating Ecological Construction: A New Base of Agriculture,

 Animal Husbandry and Fishery

 Gao Yongbin and Liu Juanhua

Further Study of Ecological Fishery for Keeping up its Rapid Develpment

 Hu Xiaobo and Ge Guanghua

Sustainable Agriculture Is the Fundamental Way out for Obtaining Higher Yields,

 Good Quality and Higher Benefits in Agriculture

 Lin Chunshan Zhang Bcuyan, Liu Yanjun and Pengchi