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This article aims to find what changes in the agricultural landscape of Manchuria mean. Another purpose of this article is to outline the achievements of existing research and to derive future research tasks from it. In this regard, I took a look at the problem of formation and expansion of cornfields, which can be said to be a key element of rural landscape in northeast China. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Manchurian development is corn, in some ways considered one of the world's top three food crops along with wheat and rice. The expansion of the cornfield was not a very old phenomenon. During the period of the Republic of China, or Manchuria, the cornfield tends to expand, as pointed out in the previous study, crucially, the expansion of the cornfield seems to have been a phenomenon in the 1950s. Since then, the cornfields have continued to expand. There was a clear commonality during the Manchurian period since the 1930s, when corn cultivation was greatly expanded, and during the People's Republic of China. Manchukuo and Kwantung Army developed and implemented a northern border development plan and a large fortification construction plan. The large-scale reclamation in the People's Republic of China in the 1950s was also a national mobilization. These large-scale development of agricultural land has shown an expansion of the corn zone since the 1950s. The expansion of the cornfield cannot be explained by any single factor, such as climate warming, mechanization or seed improvement. Overall, national intervention in agriculture was a very important factor. Of course, it is necessary to analyze the state's intervention since the 1980s, considering that it has changed from before.