Abstract: Specialized agriculture has unique advantages over the conventional practices due to its highly efficient and brand-oriented characteristics by design. In respond to the vastly diversified global consumer demands and increasingly segmented agricultural markets, it emerges with the matching specific regional resources on material supplies and supporting system.Its development is seen as an effective process to formulate the structure of activities and direction of economic development for China's agriculture in the years to come. This article summarizes the history, concept, content, and theoretical basis of the study on specialized agriculture.In addition, it highlights the achievements in the field covering 6 aspects of research areas, including model development, mechanism and strategy, industrialization and competitiveness, evaluation and precautions, selection and regional layout, and information technology.