Water rights transfer from agriculture to industry is one of the ways to meet the water demand for industrial growth in the northwest water shortage area. However

with the changes of water resource development and utilization and economic and social development

the water rights transfer from agriculture to industry is facing some problems

such as limited space for agricultural water-saving

and difficulty in effectively matching between water rights supply and demand sides

and difficulty in maintaining economic advantages

and the imperfect pricing mechanism. This article analyzes that the transformation of agricultural water rights to industry requires a shift from reducing agricultural water use to improving the efficiency of industrial and agricultural water use

from government regulation to market trading

from economic benefit logic to comprehensive benefit logic

and from cost pricing to diversified pricing. Based on this

suggestions are proposed to optimize the transformation of agricultural water rights by systematically expanding the sources of convertible agricultural water rights

setting reasonable qualification conditions for industrial departments to obtain agricultural water rights

constructing market trading mechanisms

and improving support service systems.