In recent years, the organic agricultural production mode of China has been applied to more than 100 countries, and number of area and growers of organic agriculture are rising year by year. The development of organic agriculture could help solve a series of problems brought about by modern agriculture, such as serious soil erosion and soil quality deterioration, as well as pollution and energy consumption caused to environment by large amount pesticide and fertilizer application; meanwhile, it will help develop rural economy and has vast development potential.

The organic agriculture development in China shows the following characteristics: the first is increase of organic agriculture planting scale and yield; the second is continuous rising of total livestock and poultry output; the third is large amount increase of organic authentication certificates; the fourth is more normalized laws and regulations for new edition national organic certification, and better supervisory effect.

In addition, organic agriculture development plays an important role in agricultural development in China, mainly shown in: firstly, driving green transformation of agricultural production mode; secondly, providing high-quality, safe, healthy and nutritious agricultural products; thirdly, improving international market competitiveness of Chinese agricultural products; fourthly, promoting high-quality development of agriculture industry in China.