The Northeast Asia Agricultural Policy Research Forum, sponsored by the Korea Research Institute of Rural Economy, co-sponsored by the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of China of CAAS, the Institute of Forestry and Fisheries Policy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, was held successfully in Jeju Island, South Korea, from May 30^th to June 2^nd, 2018.

At this forum, the theme is “Improving Labor Force and Rural Welfare for Enhancing Competitiveness”, two topics are separately to strengthen labor training to promote agricultural and rural competitiveness and to improve rural welfare. Our researcher Chen Yangfen and researcher Xia Ying made an academic report entitled as “Improving Agricultural Productivity to Strengthen Agricultural Competitiveness” and “Analysis of China’s Rural Welfare in the Perspective of Rural Basic Public Service Supply” regarding above two topics, and researcher Zhong Yuyan and researche Lv Kaiyu acted as the commentator respectively.

Novel opinions of scholars and icing-on-the-cake comments of commentators enriched the theme of this forum from various levels and perspectives, by which, participants achieved fruitful academic results. Apart from two major topics, experts also focused on current issues of rural development and rural governance, discussed and inspired each other, and put forward many forward-looking, comprehensive and innovative insights. Further progress and more results are expected to be achieved on follow-up forums. After the forum, participants also visited the Jeju Agriculture, the Jiashili Village Committee and other units.

During the forum, a meeting of directors from three institutes was held to discuss the time, location and issues of the 14^th Northeast Asia Agricultural Policy Research Forum in 2019 which was scheduled to be held in September 2019 in Qingdao finally.

In 2003, the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of China reached a cooperation framework with the Korea Research Institute of Rural Economy and the Ministry of Agriculture and the Institute of Forestry and Fisheries Policy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan to jointly organize the “Northeast Asia Agricultural Policy Research Forum”, thus, a relatively stable cooperation mechanism among agricultural and economic research institutions of China, Korea and Japan was formed which conducted cooperative researches on agricultural and rural economic development and policy issues and jointly organized academic forums. The Northeast Asia Agricultural Policy Research Forum has been held for fifteen years with thirteen seminars in total.