CCTV News (News Network): General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that to develop modern agriculture and build an agricultural power, we must rely on scientific and technological progress to give science and technology a wing to take off for agricultural modernization.

This year, in spring farming, all regions will take scientific and technological innovation as the guide, develop new agricultural productivity according to local conditions, accelerate the change of traditional agricultural production methods, and promote the acceleration of agricultural modernization.

This spring, modernization is progressing in an orderly manner from south to north. In the Yangtze River Basin, more and more seedling plants are continuously transporting early rice seedling trays. In the wheat area of ​​Huanghuaihai, intelligent spring irrigation allows drops of water to moisten every wheat seedling in a timely manner. In North China and Northwest China, Beidou Navigation High-performance Seed Machine is accurately sowing crops such as spring wheat and potatoes.

The new quality productivity of agriculture makes spring plowing and spring management more high-quality and efficient this year.

The powerful tool for building an agricultural power lies in science and technology. General Secretary Xi Jinping has always attached great importance to agricultural scientific and technological innovation. He emphasized that we only have so many resources, and the demand for agricultural products in the super-large-scale market is growing again. Now, more than ever, we need to pay attention to and rely on agricultural scientific and technological innovation. We must not only be determined to make up for our shortcomings and weaknesses, but also be determined to give full play to our latecomer advantages and achieve "overtaking on the curve". From the Silicon Valley in the South to the black soil in the Northeast, from the Huanghuai Plain to the "Tianfu Granary", the General Secretary leads and promotes the accelerated improvement of my country's agricultural science and technology level.

Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture. This spring plowing, batches of new varieties with their own abilities have gone to the north and south to take root and sprout through customized methods.

In Beijing, a "seed selection think tank" built with big data has been put into large-scale application for the first time, refining my country's core corn production areas into a grid of more than 60,000 "5 kilometers × 5 kilometers". With the help of satellite remote sensing technology and agricultural environmental algorithms, the optimal growth area is accurately matched to the new corn varieties.

Not only the new varieties have the most suitable soil, but advanced agricultural machinery and equipment also makes field operations more refined and efficient. More than 20 million sets of agricultural machinery and equipment will go to the front line of production one after another, deepening the deep-spinning ground preparation machines, high-speed rice transplanters, and hilly small farming machines. More than 3.9 million sets of high-end intelligent agricultural machinery will be invested in spring plowing and spring management.

In the vast fields, more agricultural production scenarios also have "smart brains". In Pukou, Jiangsu, a newly developed drone is undergoing field testing. Technicians only need to "yell" at it gently, and the drone equipped with a voice recognition system can "understand" and respond quickly to field operations. In Haining, Zhejiang, locally deployed AI models are used in spring farming production. As early as a year ago, the farm continued to "feed" massive data from the entire production process to the AI ​​model, and continuously trained and corrected it. After the problems in production were raised, it received feedback in just a few seconds.

This spring, intelligent agricultural machinery flexibly shuttles between the fields, sensors capture subtle changes in the land, algorithms learn to generate full-process production plans, and the new agricultural productivity has made the temperament of traditional agriculture new.

This year, my country will build a number of agricultural science and technology incubators, and the central government will allocate more than 600 million yuan to carry out integrated pilot projects for the research, development, promotion and application of major varieties, so that more scientific and technological achievements can go out of the laboratory, into the fields, and accelerate the process of agricultural modernization.