On November 21, the 12th China Modern Agricultural Development Forum and the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Agronomy were held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Zhang Xingwang, a member of the party group and vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, delivered a video speech, and Ren Shaobo, secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang University, attended and gave a speech.
This forum and annual meeting deeply implemented the spirit of the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, taking the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter to the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Society of Agronomy as a guide, with the theme of "New Quality Productivity Empowering the Construction of an Agricultural Strong Country." It focused on issues such as climate resilience and food security, new energy agricultural machinery and intelligent agricultural machinery, agricultural biological manufacturing, and enterprise technological innovation, and held exchanges and discussions. The event included a main venue and 16 special activities, comprising eight major sections such as keynote reports, think tank results release, and new scenario roadshows.
Five think tank results were released at the opening ceremony, including "2025 China's Major New Agricultural Technologies, New Products, and New Scenarios," "2025 Global Agricultural Science and Technology Hot Spots and Performance Analysis," and "2025 China's Agricultural Enterprises Innovation Report."
More than 2,000 people participated in the event, including relevant leaders from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the China Association for Science and Technology, and relevant national academic societies, councilors of the Chinese Society of Agronomy, representatives of branches of the Chinese Society of Agronomy, provincial academic societies, agricultural universities, research institutes, technology enterprises, and young science and technology workers.