“Agricultural machinery and agriculture should seize the opportunity of the development of disruptive new technologies such as intelligence, digitization and greening, give full play to the advantages of late development, realize industrial upgrading and help rural revitalization.” At the two sessions in 2022, Zhan Chunxin, member of the CPPCC National Committee, Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science And Technology Co.Ltd(000157) party secretary and chairman of the board of directors, proposed to use new technologies to enable the upgrading and development of agricultural machinery and agriculture.
At present, China has embarked on a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and the work of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” has entered a new stage of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and accelerating agricultural and rural modernization. In recent years, China has made remarkable achievements in the mechanization of agricultural production. The comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvest has exceeded 70%, and has entered a new stage dominated by mechanization. But there are also many deficiencies and problems. “The transformation and upgrading of intelligent, digital and green agricultural machinery and equipment is still in its infancy, the integration and application of new technologies in equipment and agronomy lags behind, and the integration and development of agricultural machinery and agriculture is insufficient.” Zhan Chunxin believes that these problems have restricted the high-quality development of China’s agriculture and become an urgent problem to be solved in the implementation of the Rural Revitalization Strategy.
It is understood that by 2020, China’s intelligent high-end agricultural machinery accounted for less than 10% of the overall scale of agricultural machinery. The lack of high-end agricultural machinery has restricted the industrial upgrading of agricultural machinery and equipment and the development of Jiangsu Nonghua Intelligent Agriculture Technology Co.Ltd(000816) and other new industries. The technical level of agricultural machinery and equipment needs to be further improved. In terms of agronomic science and technology, there are also problems such as insufficient innovation of basic research and application mode, relatively backward data collection and application, and the content of agronomic science and technology needs to be further improved. In addition, from the agricultural machinery equipment end to the production application end and then to the management platform end, the end-to-end connection has not been realized, and the whole process intelligent, digital and green agricultural system of “heaven, air, earth, man and machine” has not been formed. The integration and innovation among agricultural machinery equipment enterprises, Jiangsu Nonghua Intelligent Agriculture Technology Co.Ltd(000816) enterprises and industrial Internet enterprises also need to be strengthened.
At present, under the new round of scientific and technological revolution with new energy, new digital and other new technologies as the main driving force, China has formed new technological industrial advantages in the fields of battery and motor, industrial interconnection, artificial intelligence, 5g communication and so on. Zhan Chunxin proposed that accelerating the application of these new technologies to agricultural machinery and equipment and agricultural production can effectively break through the bottleneck of traditional technology and realize lane changing overtaking.
Therefore, Zhan Chunxin put forward suggestions to promote the upgrading and development of agricultural machinery and agriculture from the aspects of market, manufacturing and top-level design. First, on the market side, optimize the subsidy policies for the purchase and application of agricultural machinery and improve the payment methods of subsidies. We should reduce subsidies for low-end agricultural machinery and increase subsidies for advanced agricultural machinery such as intelligent agricultural machinery, large combine harvesters and power shift tractors. Second, at the manufacturing end, vigorously support the enterprise’s high-end agricultural machinery R & D. From project approval, trial production, trial sale to batch listing, relevant support policies and guidance should be provided to enhance the enterprise’s R & D power. Third, in the top-level design, integrate the integrated development of agricultural machinery and agriculture into the overall strategy of Rural Revitalization.
