Cultivating new agricultural productive forces is an inherent requirement and a key focus for promoting high-quality agricultural development and building a strong agricultural country. Based on panel data from 30 provinces and cities in mainland China from 2012 to 2022, the entropy method, Dagum Gini coefficient, and Moran's I were used to study the development level of new agricultural productive forces. The results show that: first, the development level of China's new agricultural productive forces has steadily improved, and at the regional level, it shows a decreasing trend in the order of the eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions; second, the degree of inequality in the development of China's new agricultural productive forces has continued to expand, and the inter-regional gap is the main reason for the unbalanced development; third, the development of China's new agricultural productive forces has a positive spatial autocorrelation in space, with a concentrated distribution. Accordingly, policy recommendations are put forward from the perspective of the overall development level and regional difference characteristics of new agricultural productive forces.
Hao et al. (Mon,) studied this question.