On November 26-27, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a national smart agriculture and agricultural brand construction site promotion meeting in Yongchuan District, Chongqing. Jiang Wensheng, a member of the party group and vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to deeply study and implement the important expositions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, to implement the arrangements of the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, to take smart agriculture as an important focus for the development of modern agriculture, and to take brand agriculture as an important leverage for building a modernized large-scale industry. It is necessary to accelerate the catching up of smart agriculture and the strengthening of brand agriculture, and to provide strong momentum for accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and for the solid advancement of comprehensive rural revitalization.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to take the promotion of the popularization and application of information technologies such as artificial intelligence in the agricultural and rural fields as the main line of work, and to take the promotion of the improvement of agricultural total factor productivity and management service efficiency as the main attack direction. It is necessary to coordinate the promotion of technology research and development, scene landing, and industry cultivation, and to accelerate the development of smart agriculture. It is necessary to focus on policy innovation, to perfect the policy support system; to focus on independent innovation, to improve the supply level of smart agriculture technology; to focus on scene construction, to accelerate the digital transformation of agriculture; to focus on data application, to improve management service efficiency; to focus on sustainable development, to cultivate a healthy industrial ecology.
The meeting required that it is necessary to focus on improving the quality and benefits of agriculture, to boost the consumption of agricultural products, and to deeply promote the construction of agricultural brands. It is necessary to set the right direction, to build major agricultural brands, to cultivate characteristic agricultural brands, to enrich the connotation of agricultural brands, to lay the foundation for agricultural brands, and to launch global agricultural brands. It is necessary to clarify the path, to perfect the mechanism, to do practical carriers, and to gradually establish a brand system that matches the status of a strong agricultural country.