From "bonsai" to "landscape"

　　Digital village is becoming a buzzword these days.

Recently, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "Key Points for Digital Rural Development in 2022" (hereinafter referred to as "Key Points"), proposing to accelerate the construction of a digital economy that leads the revitalization of rural industries. system.

In March this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Agricultural and Rural Informatization Development Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which clarified the key tasks and safeguard measures for agricultural and rural informatization during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. .

At the beginning of this year, ten departments including the Central Internet Information Office and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Digital Rural Development Action Plan (2022-2025)", deploying 26 key tasks from 8 aspects.

　　Digital villages are not only an important part of building a digital China, but also an important direction for rural revitalization.

In recent years, with the improvement of rural information infrastructure, the rapid development of agricultural products e-commerce, the effect of smart agriculture has begun to show.

According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of the end of the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, the country has invested in the construction of 81 digital agriculture pilot projects, identified 210 national agricultural and rural informatization demonstration bases, and promoted 426 agricultural Internet of Things application achievements and models, driving new innovations. The first generation of information technology is applied in all fields of agricultural production and operation.

During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, a total of 460,000 agricultural information agencies have been built and operated, covering 80% of the country's administrative villages, providing 830 million person-times of various services to farmers and new entities.

　　Tang Ke, director of the Department of Marketing and Informatization of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, believes that the "14th Five-Year Plan" is a critical period for agricultural and rural informatization to move from "bonsai" to "landscape".

As the focus of the "three rural" work has shifted to comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, the agricultural and rural areas have become a policy highland, and capital investment and policy support have continued to increase.

Under the new development pattern, the countryside has increasingly become the growth pole of my country's internal economic cycle and the emerging force of consumption growth.

At present, the innovation of modern information technology in the agricultural and rural fields is unprecedentedly active, and new industries, new formats and new models are constantly emerging.

　　However, the development of digital villages also faces some challenges.

Liu Changquan, director of the Industrial Economics Office of the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that my country's agricultural and rural informatization development is still in its infancy, and there are several shortcomings.

First, network infrastructure is insufficient, and some remote agricultural production areas have not yet achieved network coverage; second, innovation capabilities are insufficient, key core technologies need to be broken through urgently, and advanced and applicable information products and equipment are lacking; third, there is insufficient effective data, and data is used to support production and operation. The role of management and decision-making is not enough; fourth, there is a shortage of talents, and there is a lack of compound talents who understand both agriculture and rural areas and information technology.

　　The development of smart agriculture and the enhancement of agricultural production support capabilities are the main directions for the development of agricultural and rural informatization during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

The "Key Points" propose that by the end of 2022, the 5G network will cover key towns and some key administrative villages, and the Internet penetration rate in rural areas will exceed 60%.

The development of rural digital economy has accelerated, the level of informatization in agricultural production has been steadily improved, and the online retail sales of agricultural products e-commerce has exceeded 430 billion yuan.

The "Planning" clearly states that by 2025, smart agricultural technologies and products will be preliminarily industrialized, the informatization rate of agricultural production will reach 27%, the annual online retail sales of agricultural products will exceed 800 billion yuan, and 100 national digital agricultural innovation application bases will be built. Identified 200 agricultural and rural informatization demonstration bases.

　　Tang Ke introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will launch three major projects: the construction of the national digital agricultural innovation application base, the construction of agricultural and rural big data platforms, and the innovation of smart agricultural technology.

Specifically, build five national digital agriculture innovation application bases in planting, facility agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery, and seed industry across the country, and establish an integrated application system for smart agriculture.

Transform and upgrade the "agricultural and rural cloud" infrastructure, upgrade and improve the agricultural and rural data collection system, build a "one map" of agricultural and rural data and a general system for big data analysis, and form a unified national agricultural and rural big data platform.

Build a group of national digital agriculture and rural innovation centers and key laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to carry out strategic and cutting-edge technology research.

　　"The technology involved in smart agriculture is relatively cutting-edge, and the market risks are also relatively large. On the basis of fully respecting the dominant position of farmers, we must do it for farmers, lead farmers to work, and lead farmers to earn money, so as to inspire farmers to use modern information technology to develop production, The endogenous power to improve life.” Kang Chunpeng, an associate researcher at the Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, believes that from the perspective of many local cases of developing smart agriculture, it is necessary to give full play to the role of market players, respect the laws of informatization development, and stimulate the development of various market players. vitality.

It is necessary to play the role of a promising government, guide market expectations with policies, clarify investment directions with planning, leverage social capital with finance, and regulate market behavior with the rule of law.

Qiao Jinliang