Abstract:With the in-depth development of the global scientific and technological revolution and China’s full entry into a new period of agricultural modernization, China’s agricultural industrial economy is undergoing a historic transformation characterized by agricultural industry development, structural adjustment, mode reform and value restructuring. Breakthroughs in agricultural scientific and technological innovation, significant progress in biological breeding, rapid development of digital agriculture, changes in agricultural operation methods and indepth integration of rural industries are profoundly transforming the operation mode and value structure of the agricultural industrial economy. At the same time, prominent contradictions and problems remain, such as further intensified constraints on cultivated land resources, tighter ecological environment constraints, low efficiency in the transformation and application of agricultural science and technology, unbalanced value distribution in the industrial chain, imperfect agricultural operation methods, and weak international competitiveness of agriculture. Agricultural research institutions are the core force of the national agricultural science and technology system, standing at the forefront of China’s agricultural industrial economic activities. They are providers of agricultural scientific and technological innovation, promoters of achievement transformation, supporters of the industrial technology system, think tanks for agricultural policy research, and training bases for scientific and technological personnel, serving as a long-term, stable and strategic scientific and technological guarantee for the high-quality development of the agricultural industrial economic. In the future, agricultural research institutions should enhance original innovation capabilities, build an industry-university-research collaborative innovation system, layout digital agriculture research, conduct research on agricultural industrial economy and policies, and improve the scientific and technological demonstration and service system.