Evaluation of the Coupled and Coordinated Relationship between Agricultural Modernization and Regional Economic Development under the Rural Revitalization Strategy
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Let me start by explaining that I am not an expert in this field, but I am knowledgeable about historical development through agriculture, and about economic history. As such I appreciate the attempt of the authors to consider the case of China within the context of the role of agriculture for development.
I have a number of concrete suggestions:
First, explain earlier on and more clearly what “coupling” and “coupling coordination” mean. I was not aware of these concepts.
Second, relate the findings to the experiences of other countries. There are numerous historical parallels to what is happening in China, and we can learn a lot by putting the present day within the historical context.
Third, avoid language as used in for example the first two sentences of the abstract or the beginning of the introduction. Agriculture is important, but might not be considered by others to be “the lifeblood” of the economy. And the modernization might be “remarkable”, but this would deserve an explanation and some citations.
Finally, how do the results compare to other studies using similar methods?
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Reviewer 2 Report
The topic is actual especially in developing countries where the agriculture contribution to GDP and its share of total employment is high. The modernization of agriculture is important in all over the world because of food security.
The paper is focusing on China and in my mind is that beside of that it try to offer methodology for measuring of modernization of agriculture and its relationship to development of regions
The structure of paper does not fit the requirements of a scientific paper (Introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion and conclusion). The literature analysis should refer the theoretical background and results of previous empirical researches from other part of the world as well. I strongly recommend delving deeper in the international literature, more detailed and critical analysis is required. The description of methodology used should be more clearly refereed How the indices were selected ( literature sources) and weighed. The results should be compared with results of other researches. The results should send messages for international public as well. It is also useful to provide a thoughtful discussion of how the paper serves as a foundation for future research with a dedicated section on directions for future research. Including conclusion section.
The format of references and citation should be controlled some literatures used are outdated.
As a general comment, the overall contribution of the study seems to be poor. It does not appear to contribute very substantially to extant knowledge in the subject matter. According to the importance of the topic I suggest a substantial reversion and resubmission.
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Reviewer 3 Report
This issue is very important, especially in countries and regions with a high share of agriculture in generating gdp and employment. The study ignores the problem of employment in agriculture (rural overpopulation), and yet one of the key conditions for modernizing agriculture is reducing the number of people working in agriculture.
Table 2 lists the indicators, but in most cases the units in which they are expressed are not given. My task is to add a table (it can be an appendix) in which the mean basic characteristics of these variables for the studied regions should be provided. I also have a note to Fig. 2, it should be supplemented with a trend line and list functions with its statistical characteristics.
The weakness of the article is also the discussion, laconic conclusions and references.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Thank you for your careful consideration of my comments. I have no more to add.
Author Response
It is a great honor to receive your approval of this manuscript and thank you for your help in improving the quality of it!
Reviewer 2 Report
Thank you for your revision. All my suggestions were taken into consideration. I suggest to continue this topic.
Author Response
It is a great honor to receive your approval of this manuscript and thank you for your help in improving the quality of it!
Reviewer 3 Report
Accept .
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It is a great honor to receive your approval of this manuscript and thank you for your help in improving the quality of it!
This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.
