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On the one hand, an increase in the productivity of agricultural labor has raised the output of the unit agricultural labor and the income of rural residents and weakened the driving forces of the transfer of agricultural labor. On the other hand, an increase in the output of agricultural products has enabled the agricultural labor to be released from industrial sectors and prompted its transfer. The total mechanical power of agricultural labor (the ratio of the total agricultural machinery power to the population employed in agriculture) is selected to measure the productivity of agricultural labor, as analyzed in the subsequent sections.