Abstract: Deserticulture has a history of more than 20 years, which is becoming more and more abundant and has contributed to the improvement of ecological environment, the revitalization of local economic and alleviation of poverty in China's desert areas. It also raises new questions for scholars: what kind of convergence mode for deserticulture currently? How about the convergence mechanism and extent? If these problems are not well solved, it will not be beneficial to the further development of the deserticulture in the desert area. Therefore, based on the analysis of the current situation of development and convergence of the deserticulture, three modes of the convergence for the deserticulture were summarized: industrial cross-type, industrial chain extension and technology penetration. Then, convergence extent was analyzed based on three cases. The results show that there are some problems in the process of deserticulture convergence. The convergence extent is low and the stability of the convergence is not high. Finally, some policy suggestions on the development of deserticulture in China were proposed to focus on the “deserticulture +”, promote the cross-type convergence mode of the deserticulture, extend the convergence chain of deserticulture, and stimulate the vitality of various parts of the deserticulture.

Key words: deserticulture, industry convergence, convergence mode, convergence extent