Qiu Huanguang et al.: Fighting a turnaround in the seed industry: the dilemma and choice of China's seed industry development

As a national strategic and basic core industry, the high-quality development of seed industry is the foundation of promoting agricultural modernization and ensuring national food security. Based on the analysis of the current situation of China's seed industry development, this paper analyzes the integrated development mechanism of China's seed industry, and believes that China's seed industry is currently in a stage where breeding research and development is dominated by public scientific research departments and insufficient participation of seed enterprises, facing the dilemma of "scattered breeding resources, private investment market failure and mismatch between public scientific research and market demand, refining basic technological breakthroughs, intellectual property protection, and mergers and reorganizations are important drivers for the U.S. seed industry to achieve a leap in development stages. Following the objective facts of the differences between China and the developed countries in the development stage of the seed industry, it is proposed that the development of China's seed industry is restricted by factors such as imperfect germplasm resources, breeding talents prefer public scientific research departments, weak intellectual property protection, and small-scale seed enterprises. Finally, this paper puts forward the path selection and countermeasures to promote the development of China's seed industry in the next stage from the aspects of establishing the management and information feedback mechanism of the resource bank, promoting the in-depth cooperation of science and enterprises, strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights in the seed industry, optimizing the operation system of seed enterprises and the mechanism of merger and acquisition.