Abstract: The spatial distribution and agglomeration degree of the leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization are important indicators of a country's process of agricultural modernization.This paper,by using nuclear density and local hot spot analysis method,explores the spatial distribution of the leading agricultural enterprises in China,and analyzes the factors affecting the spatial agglomeration of agricultural leading enterprises with the help of multiple linear regression.It is found that the leading enterprises of China's agricultural industry are mainly distributed in the developed cities in eastern China and they form the hot spots in the eastern regions,and tend to spread around these cities and form regional agglomeration,while the western regions are relatively cold spots.The main factors affecting the development of agricultural leading enterprises include the total power of agricultural machinery,highway and railway mileages,and judicial civilization and marketization indexes.The increase of crop sown area and the fixed asset investment in agriculture,forestry,animal husbandry and fishery are negatively related to the growth of leading enterprises in China's agricultural industrialization.The research results show the spatial distribution and the changing rules of China's leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization,and reveal the reasons for the regional differential development from the level of national policies,providing development direction and suggestions for perfecting the agricultural industrial policy system and promoting the process and spatial distribution of China's agricultural industrialization.

Key words: China's agriculture, industrialization, leading enterprises, spatial distribution, influencing factors