Abstract: 【Objective】 Informatization is the general developing trend in modern world, and also the important force to promote the economic and social reform of China. As one of the biggest agricultural provinces in China, the development of Shandong agriculture is increasingly constrained by resources, so it is urgent to upgrade and transform the agricultural industry. As the first demonstration province for rural and agricultural informatization in China, Shandong Province has made a prior attempt on promoting agricultural modernization by informatization. In this paper, the practice and effect of agricultural informatization development in Shandong were analyzed and summarized. Based on these, the huge effect of informatization on modern agriculture was further verified, and the referential empirical modes were summarized in order to provide references for the other provinces. 【Method】 The methods of field visit and panel discussions were used to know about the current situation and existing problems in the development of agricultural informatization in Shandong, and the quantitative research was carried out based on the data obtained from investigation. So the practice and effect of agricultural informatization construction of Shandong were mastered in a view of macro-perspective, the pointed policy measures were also put forward for the agricultural informatization. 【Results】 The construction of comprehensive provincial service platform for rural and agricultural informatization, integration of Three Networks information service high speed channel, grassroots information service system and demonstration project were conducted in Shandong Province, and also the exploration of long-term mechanism. At present, the comprehensive service platform has been preliminarily constructed and commissioned, and the constructed high speed channel is convenient with wide coverage; there were more than 2000 grassroots service stations were constructed within the whole province to carry out scientific information service, e-commerce and agricultural internet of things demonstration and so on in vegetables, fruit trees, domestic animals and domestic fowls, aquatic products, and other important industries. A plenty of informatization achievements have been popularized and applied, and the long-term mechanism has been constructed, thus, the modern agricultural development, new village construction and the integrative development of informatization with modernization of agriculture were promoted. 【Conclusion】 The agricultural informatization is a key support for the modern agricultural development, a significant embodiment of agricultural modernization level, an important content of agricultural modernization construction and also the key action to enhance the agricultural efficiency, increase farmers’ income and develop rural economy. It is the optimal path to develop agricultural informatization and realize Four-Modernization-Synchronization in Shandong Province even the whole nation through informatization to promote agricultural modernization.

Key words: Shandong Province, agricultural informatization, modern agriculture, development practice