Abstract: Based on the new development concept, the evaluation index system of agricultural high-quality development level was constructed. The data of 72 cities（prefectures and leagues）in the Yellow River Basin from 2008 to 2019 was adopted to reveal the spatial-temporal evolution characteristics and influencing factors of high-quality agricultural development level in the Yellow River Basin by using entropy method, standard deviation ellipse, Moran’s I index and spatial econometric model. The results show that the level of high-quality agricultural development in the Yellow River Basin had generally been improving during the study period, but there were still structural problems, and the level of innovative development and open development were weak links. The level of high-quality agricultural development showed an uneven spatial distribution, gradually changing from “high in the east and low in the mid-west” to “high in the east and west, low in the central”; regional agricultural development was spatially correlated, showing high-high agglomeration and low-low agglomeration; the level of socio-economic development and infrastructure promoted high-quality agricultural development, and population urbanization had a negative impact on high-quality agricultural development. This led to the conclusion that the Yellow River Basin should promote high-quality agricultural development by deepening agricultural supply-side reform, developing differentiated agricultural models, bringing into play regional agricultural radiation effects, and making full use of socio-economic factors.

Key words: high-quality agricultural development, Yellow River Basin, spatial-temporal characteristics, influencing factors