The Dehong Prefecture, with superior natural conditions, is a traditional agriculture prefecture. As early as the Qing Dynasty, it was well-known as “Paddy of the Mangshi and Rice of the Zhefang”. Before the liberation, the agriculture in Dehong was at the self-sufficient natural economic condition: in the region where the Dai and A’chang minority lived, the agricultural product is basically the rice-planting; the Jingpo and the Lisu minority are the shifting cultivation nationalities, and mainly depended upon the dry land agriculture and stockbreeding by slash-and-burn cultivation. At the same time, the primitive gathering and hunting still occupied a certain share in its economy. In the mountainous areas the Han nationality lived, the land agriculture is also the main means to live, and the opium was planted. At the beginning of the establishment of the prefecture, the cultivated area all over the prefecture was approximately more than 700,000 mu, in which the paddy field had 500,000 mu, and land field 100,000 mu. The total agriculture output of the prefecture was 122,830,000 Yuan all over the year.

　　After the People's Republic of China had been established, Dehong prefecture took the lead to become the commodity grain base of Yunnan Province, taking the measures such as the construction of the water conservation, reorganizing the field, planting scientifically and so on. Especially, after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of CPC, the responsibility system focusing on the household contract was set up, and the system adjusted the rural industrial structure and aroused the production enthusiasm of the farmers. As a result, the grain had an abundant harvest, and the rural economy got full development. By the end of 2000, the prefecture has had more than 1,800,000 mu of the cultivated area, and more than 700,000 mu of the land used to plant the sugar cane (among this there are more than 200,000 mu of the water field). There is more than 700,000 mu land used to develop the winter agriculture. The production condition of the agriculture has been improved, and the prefecture has owned more than 500,000,000 watts of the gross power of the agricultural machinery. The gross product value of the framing, forestry, animal husbandry, and the fishery in the prefecture is 1.87 billion Yuan (at the same year price).

　　Throughout the tenth five-year plan, Dehong prefecture had taken the “three agriculture” as the key point to the economic work, vigorously adjusted the industrial structure of the agriculture, optimized the regional layout of the agricultural products and deepened the reform of the tax and the fee in the countryside. As a result, the layout of agricultural product that took the commodity production of the superior agricultural product as a lead was basically set up, and the rural economy developed with the steady steps. In 2005, the gross product value of the farming, forestry, animal husbandry and the fishery in the prefecture was 2.721 billion Yuan; the prefecture had 738,310,000 watts of the gross power of the agricultural machinery, 1,848 sets of the large and the middle tractors, 33,344 sets of the small tractors, 559 sets of the harvesting machines, 2,186 sets of the threshers moved by the machines, and the amount of the chemical fertilizer used was 50,079 tons. During the year, the primary agricultural products in the prefecture were following: the grain was 402,700 tons, the sugar cane 2.974 million tons, the fuel oil 14,900 tons, the rubber 5810 tons, the tea 6,975 tons, the tobacco 111 tons, the fruit 85,800 tons, the pork, beef and mutton 41,000 tons, the aquatic product 12,600 tons, the milk 1,215 tons, the large domestic animals in the bar at the end of the year 195,600 heads, the meat pigs out of the bar 396,300 heads, the pigs in the bar at the end of the year 580,500 heads, the sheep in the bar at the end of the year 83,000 heads. During the whole year, the prefecture exempted 10,960,000 Yuan of the agricultural tax, cashed 11,707,500 Yuan of the straight makeup of the grains and the seed of the grains. The output of the rural labor force was 17,718 persons and the income from the output of the labor force was 23,258,000 Yuan. The labor service going out became a new spot which added the income. The green industry was in prosperity. The planting area of the superior industry such as the lemon, the coffee, the Australian nut, the hemp bamboo and the Gleditsia japonicar var.delavayi was 240,000 mu, and the households took part in the industry were 56,000; the total output of the agriculture was 36,700 tons, the product value was 47,120,000 Yuan, there were a batch of the entity enterprises taking the biology processing, the production, and the sale as a body, and the prefecture made out a new way to develop agriculture: enterprise, base, household; the success of the project “China-European water buffalo development”, not only improved the farmers’ economy condition in the national minority area and the impoverished mountainous area, but also obtained the obvious social efficiency and the obvious ecologic efficiency, which was the successful model on the road to the international cooperation on the side of the Dehong animal husbandry. On the path of the construction of the socialist new countryside, Dehong prefecture will have a bright prospect! (Translated by Zhang Chengtie)