Roles of Agricultural Universities in Extension of S&T Achievements and Transformation of Agricultural Development Patterns: A Case Study in Henan, China

Taking Henan Agricultural University (HAU) as an example, the paper discusses roles of Chinese agricultural universities in extension of S&T achievements and transformation of agricultural development patterns in China. In the first half common acts that HAU takes are emphasized for the production-teaching-research combination: (1) accelerating industrialisation process of agricultural S&T achievements by means of HAU-based national and provincial research platforms, (2) innovating the production-teaching-research combination model of “321” and establishing cooperation base to promote development of local economy, (3) innovatively designing “9:1” model to explore the brand-new agricultural development pattern, (4) advancing cooperation to achieve a win-win situation between HAU and local governmental institutions or enterprises, and (5) extending and applying advanced S&T achievements by popularisation activities in rural areas. And in the latter half, major effects of and experience in the production-teaching-research combination are introduced: (1) rapid and sound development of agricultural production has been pushed forward and the pace of agricultural modernisation has been quickened up, (2) independent innovation ability and core competition ability of enterprises have been enhanced, (3) large numbers of high-quality S&T personnel have been well educated for the society, and (4) educational quality of HAU has been improved and its S&T innovation ability enhanced. Finally, forms of cooperation between Chinese people and African people are also discussed.