文章对华中师范大学中国农村问题研究中心和作者本人近 2 0年来的研究工作进行了全面的回顾和系统的总结。文章回答了作者将学术目光聚焦在农村问题上的缘由 ,并强调社会科学必须随着社会的变革而转换其研究内容和方法 ,变革的方向是为社会改革服务。也只有这样 ,才能出现社会发展与社会科学的良性互动。文章阐明了“三个面向 ,理论务农”的基本内容及其实质 ,在谈到近二十年来理论务农实践的主要体会时 ,作者指出 ,我们悟出了一个道理 ,这就是社会科学只要面向社会 ,紧紧联系实际并为政府决策和社会改革服务 ,同样可以转化为生产力。最后 ,文章还对我国政治体制的现状进行了宏观评估 ,并指出了中国农村问题研究中心在继续坚持理论务农的方向下尚须加强和改进的方面 The article made a comprehensive review and systematic summary of the research work of China Rural Research Center of Huazhong Normal University and the author himself over the past 20 years. The article answers the author’s reason of focusing on scholarly issues in rural areas and emphasizes that social sciences must change their research contents and methods as society changes. The direction of change is to serve social reform. Only in this way can there be positive interaction between social development and social science. The article clarifies the basic content and essence of the “three orientations and theory of agriculture”. When talking about the main experience of practice of agriculture in the past two decades, the author points out that we have realized that the social sciences should be socially oriented , Closely linked to the actual and for government policy-making and social reform services, the same can be transformed into productivity. Finally, the article also carries out a macro assessment on the current situation of our country’s political system and points out the aspects that China’s Rural Research Center still needs to strengthen and improve in the direction of continuing its theoretical work on agriculture