Recently, the Central Finance Office and other departments issued a notice on the “Guiding Opinions on the Effective and Effective Promotion of the Experience of Zhejiang’s” Ten Million Project “, requiring all regions to deeply understand the scientific methods contained in the experience of the” Ten Million Project “and creatively transform it into the practical work of” agriculture, rural areas, and farmers “, in order to promote the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and achieve tangible results.
Promoting the modernization of agriculture and rural areas is a major task for China to comprehensively build a socialist modernized country, and also an important measure to solve the problem of imbalanced and insufficient development. In recent years, China has vigorously promoted the construction of digital rural areas around the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, gradually improving top-level design, and accelerating the efforts of local governments. The Central Cyberspace Office, in conjunction with relevant departments such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, jointly issued the “Notice on Carrying out National Digital Rural Pilot Work”, identifying 117 counties (cities, districts) as national digital rural pilot areas, and establishing a digital rural development coordination mechanism composed of 44 departments (units). The Action Plan for Digital Rural Development (2022-2025) and the Guidelines for the Construction of the Digital Rural Standard System have been successively released. 22 provinces including Zhejiang, Hebei, and Jiangsu have successively issued policy documents for the development of digital rural areas, accelerating the construction of digital rural areas, improving the policy system, and forming a preliminary work pattern of overall coordination and promotion.
Nowadays, base stations are built on towering mountains, fiber optic cables are pulled into thousands of households, villages are entering cyberspace, and even on the “roof of the world” of high altitude and hypoxia, there is an “information heaven” connecting the world. In Yumai Village, Shannan City, Tibet Autonomous Region, the smart monitoring screen can always see the situation in various corners of the village, and can broadcast notifications and provide reminders in real-time through the mobile speaker on the phone. A single internet cable connects urban and rural areas, high-quality consumer goods enter rural households, high-quality public resources such as healthcare and education sink, and the “digital countryside” enters the snowy plateau, continuously enhancing the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security.
In 2023, the No. 1 central document proposed to deeply implement the digital rural development action and promote the R&D and promotion of digital application scenarios. The empowerment of digital technology not only enhances the capacity of rural public services, but also reduces the cost of tilting public resources towards rural areas, thus providing a new path for achieving equalization of urban and rural public services. For example, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province held a Digital Rural Development Conference and Agricultural Digitalization Promotion Conference, aiming to create a nationally leading “Suzhou Model” with the goal of “strengthening agriculture and having ‘numbers’.
With the continuous promotion of digital infrastructure in rural areas, big data and cloud computing have begun to revitalize rural resources. Networking, informatization, and digitization play an important role in the development of agriculture and rural economy. Digital rural construction provides new paths and means for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization. Shandong Shouguang is accelerating the development of digital agriculture and helping to promote rural revitalization. The application rate of intelligent equipment such as water and fertilizer integration and intelligent temperature control has reached over 80%, achieving full coverage of intelligent supervision, and continuously improving digital marketing capabilities. Data has become “new agricultural materials”, technology and equipment have become “new agricultural tools”, and the vast fields are playing the pastoral song of the digital age.
A strong country must first strengthen agriculture, and only by strengthening agriculture can the country be strong. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China states: “The most arduous and arduous task of building a socialist modernized country in all respects still lies in rural areas.” We will continue to promote the construction of digital rural areas, let digital technology play a greater role in the vast countryside, and let farmers share the “digital dividend”. We will definitely promote new progress in the construction of an agricultural power and the construction of a digital China to a new level.
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