CCTV News: At the 2025 National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, agriculture has once again become a hot topic. Topics such as "new agricultural quality productivity" and "local specialties 'grown into' large industries" were hotly discussed by representatives and deputies. How to understand these new ideas? Some delegates and deputies interpreted these policies in plain language.
"New-quality agricultural productivity" is to turn agriculture from "rustic in the soil" to "technological style", and make farming no longer a "chore" of "face to the loess and back to the sky", but to become a "high-end" "hot commodity".
In the past, farmers relied on the weather for their lives, but now they relied on technology for their lives, transforming into "new farmers". As agricultural efficiency is high, farmers have more income, and agricultural products are of better quality, consumers are relieved to eat. It is simply a killing of multiple goals in one go!
The representatives and deputies said that in the past, farming relied on manpower and traditional agricultural tools, but now everyone has begun to use intelligent equipment, drones, precision agricultural technology, gene editing and other means to help farming, and farming can also play "black technology".
Li Shiyao, a representative from Guizhou, is a household name in the local area. The local high-altitude mountainous areas were not suitable for growing strawberries, but Li Shiyao "written" his doctoral thesis on the barren mountains. He selects new varieties, demonstrates crop rotation technology, promotes intercropping models, and uses AI to help villages and towns find the right direction of characteristic development. A pound of strawberries grown can be sold for up to 80 yuan, helping villagers earn 30,000 yuan a year. Li Shiyao also admitted that in the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain, many farmers still plow the fields with cattle, and they had to rest for several days before they could recover. The comprehensive mechanization rate in hilly and mountainous areas has just exceeded half, and mountain agricultural machinery is a major shortcoming. Therefore, he also hopes that the Two Sessions will pay more attention to the development of agricultural mechanization in hilly and mountainous areas.
Another National People's Congress representative from Zunyi, Qiu Ninghong, is looking forward to more "new farmers". She has been engaged in agricultural vocational education for 30 years and feels that the demand for rural professional and technical talents and industrial development leaders is becoming increasingly prominent. However, due to factors such as insufficient funding and insufficient attractiveness, grassroots agricultural technicians have not been accepted. At the 2025 Two Sessions, she paid special attention to the "strengthening the rural talent team" proposed in the report, hoping that the country would pay more attention to the cultivation of high-skilled agricultural talents, so that farming can also be "tide" and keep up with the pace of the times.
Agriculture became the focus at the 2025 Two Sessions, which not only reflects the country's high attention to food security and rural revitalization, but also reflects the expectations of all sectors of society for agricultural modernization. Agriculture is not only an economic issue, but also a strategic issue concerning the national economy and people's livelihood. Let farmers have a richer and more quality life and give rural areas a more beautiful and vibrant appearance, which is what the people expect and what the government wants.
