As China intensifies its efforts to modernize the agricultural sector, the future of agriculture in the country is being shaped by the integration of smart technologies and the deployment of the 5G network.
According to China Central Television, prioritizing agriculture and rural development has been a major focus of China's central authorities. The government has identified initiatives related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers as its first concern during the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025).
In order to promote agricultural modernization, China has implemented a series of measures and pushed forward rural reform in all areas in recent years, and achieved breakthroughs in some key areas.
China has continued to promote agricultural infrastructure construction. Farmland is the cornerstone of food security and plays a critical role in the ecosystem and green agricultural development. The country has developed more than 1 billion mu (about 66.67 million hectares) of high-grade farmland, which has helped increase grain production capacity by 10 to 20 percent per mu.
The total number of rural road kilometers in China has reached 4.6 million kilometers today, and all eligible towns and villages have reinforced roads. More than 80 percent of administrative villages have access to 5G networks.
In China, scientific and technological innovation has become a major driving force for agricultural modernization, with the contribution rate of agricultural science and technological progress exceeding 63 percent. China's crop resource self-sufficiency rate exceeds 95 percent, more than 2.2 million sets of agricultural machinery have been installed with Beidou satellite navigation system stations in China, and nearly 200,000 drones have been used to protect plants across the country. .
The introduction of modern science and technology has made traditional agriculture more efficient and effectively improved agricultural production methods. Nationally, the mechanization rate in crop ploughing, planting and harvesting rose from 67.2 percent in 2017 to 73 percent in 2022. Helped by increasing contributions from agricultural machinery and technology, China obtained a grain yield of more than 650 million tons for the ninth consecutive year. In 2023.
China is also promoting the construction of a modern agricultural industrial system. At present, a total of 289,000 village-level comprehensive logistics and delivery service stations and 75,000 refrigeration and fresh-keeping facilities have been built in production areas across the country, allowing rapid access of fresh agricultural products to large markets.
