Intelligent agricultural machinery chain empowers modern agriculture. China's agricultural mechanization enters a new stage of high-quality development.

Beijing, October 2023 - Driven by the rural revitalization strategy and the goal of agricultural modernization, our country's agricultural machinery industry chain (referred to as the "agricultural machinery chain") is ushering in a new round of technological innovation and industrial upgrading. From core component manufacturing to intelligent agricultural machinery research and development, from digital services to post-market ecological construction, an innovation chain covering the whole life cycle and integrating "production, education and research" has accelerated to take shape, injecting strong momentum into China's agricultural quality and efficiency improvement. With policy blessings, the agricultural machinery chain is ushering in a golden period of development. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvest in the first half of 2023 exceeded 73%, of which the mechanization rate of staple foods such as wheat and rice exceeded 97%. This year, the No. 1 Central Document clearly proposes to "strengthen agricultural science and technology and equipment support". Multi-departments jointly issued the "Action Plan for Supplementing Shortfalls in Agricultural Machinery Equipment", focusing on key areas such as high-end intelligent agricultural machinery and machinery suitable for hilly and mountainous areas, and promoting coordinated research in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. Under the policy dividend, the market size of the agricultural machinery chain is expected to exceed 600 billion yuan in 2025. Technological Breakthrough: From "Made" to "Made" For a long time, the situation of relying on imports for core components such as high-horsepower engines and high-end gearboxes is changing. Leading enterprises such as Weichai Levero and Yituo Group have joined forces with scientific research institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Agricultural University to successfully develop iconic products such as 200-horsepower stepless variable-speed tractors The head of the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association said: "The market share of domestic high-end agricultural machinery has increased from less than 30% five years ago to 45%, and the intelligent and electric technology has reached the international advanced level." Digital empower, build a smart agricultural ecology, and the digital transformation of the agricultural machinery chain has become a new bright spot. The "cloud platform + intelligent end point" service system built by JD.com agricultural service, Jifei Technology and other enterprises monitors the operation status of more than 100,000 agricultural machinery in real time through the Internet of Things, providing services such as precise scheduling and fault warning. In the Sanjiang Farm built in Heilongjiang, the unmanned agricultural machine cluster realizes "cloud seeding" through the 5G network, the efficiency is 3 times higher than the traditional model, and the cost per mu is reduced by 15%. Green upgrade, serving the strategic goal of "double carbon", new energy agricultural machinery has become a breakthrough in the green transformation of the industrial chain. During the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, Zhejiang took the lead in using 500 pure electric harvesters to achieve zero-emission operations. In terms of industry standards, six new national standards including "Technical Specifications for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tractors" are about to be implemented, promoting the development of the industry towards low carbon. Experts predict that the proportion of new energy agricultural machinery will exceed 30% in 2030, and the annual carbon reduction will reach 10 million tons. Looking to the future, with the deep integration of Beidou navigation, artificial intelligence and other technologies with agricultural machinery, China's agricultural machinery chain will accelerate its climb to the "middle and high end of the global value chain". The relevant person in charge of the Agricultural Mechanization Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stressed: "The next step will focus on cultivating specialized and new'little giant 'enterprises, and build 10 national-level agricultural machinery innovation centers, so that'China Agricultural Machinery' can become the core engine to ensure food security and promote rural revitalization." News background: The agricultural machinery chain covers R & D design, raw material supply, parts manufacturing, machine assembly, sales and service, scrap recycling and other links, which is an important indicator to measure the level of national agricultural modernization. The current global agricultural machinery market size exceeds 150 billion US dollars, and China has become the largest producer and user country.