Abstract: The project is aimed to establish the Open Laboratory of Agricultural Policy Analysis and Decision Support System with advanced world standards. Also, the project is to provide scientific and effective decision support for Chinese government to settle agricultural and rural problems, to promote the realization of harmoni us development of urban and rural economies and societies, and the construction of modern agriculture and new socialism countryside. Mean while, based on China’s experiences, the project is to provide experience and consultation services for developing countries in the field of agricultural policy research and policy analysis. The project established programmed and interconnected policy analysis platform for subsystems of various research fields by applying modern information technology and theories, models, database principles and methods for econometrics, mathematical economics, public economics and related subjects. The support of specific economic analytical software and statistical software provides the base for dynamic linkage of the whole modeling system for the Open Laboratory, and the visualization, integration, informatization, and network operation for agricultural policy analysis and decision support is realized. The project initiated the policy analysis model based on a laboratory platform in the world, which plays a very important role in both domestic and international agricultural economic research, agricultural policy analysis and decision consultation.

Key words: Agricultural policy analysis , Decision support , Open laboratory , Review , Expectation