The key to agricultural modernization is the modernization of agricultural science and technology. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other seven departments jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Implementation of the Overall Efficiency of the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation System" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Opinions"), which clearly stated that by 2035, an efficient agricultural science and technology innovation system will be built, and agricultural science and technology innovation and industrial innovation will be deeply integrated. The overall level of agricultural science and technology innovation will rank among the forefront of the world, and a high-level agricultural science and technology self-reliance and self-improvement will be achieved.

At present, my country's agricultural scientific and technological innovation has entered the world's first echelon as a whole, with the contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress reaching 63.2%, the coverage rate of crop varieties exceeding 96%, and the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvesting exceeding 75%, making significant contributions to ensuring national food security and promoting high-quality agricultural development. However, we must be clear that scientific and technological innovation can be regarded as the culmination of a country's agricultural strength, and its development path is full of thorns.

This "Implementation Opinions" deploys 8 key tasks, from strengthening the core mission of scientific and technological innovation in relevant scientific research institutes and universities, to accelerating the cultivation and expansion of leading agricultural science and technology enterprises; from optimizing the organizational mechanism of agricultural science and technology innovation, to building a strong team of agricultural science and technology talents; from improving the support capacity of agricultural science and technology conditions to accelerating the transformation of agricultural science and technology achievements; from promoting high-level open cooperation in agricultural science and technology, to improving the agricultural science and technology innovation ecology. The "Implementation Opinions" are based on national conditions and follow the laws of agricultural scientific and technological innovation, demonstrating my country's firm determination to unswervingly promote self-reliance and self-improvement in agricultural scientific and technological innovation.

The "Implementation Opinions" encourages all types of scientific research subjects to show their strengths and perform their duties by optimizing their positioning layout. Strengthen the core mission of scientific and technological innovation in relevant scientific research institutes and universities, so that central-level scientific research institutes will focus on serving major national needs, concentrate their superior forces to carry out key core technologies, and break through the "bottleneck" problems. Local scientific research institutes should focus on supporting regional development, focus on regional and characteristic industrial scientific and technological issues, and provide solid technical support for local agricultural development. As an important base for talent training and knowledge innovation, universities play a role in the scientific and technological innovation system as a source of vitality. Strengthen its mission of serving farmers, vigorously cultivate new types of talents who know and love agriculture, and inject youthful strength into agricultural development.

Talent is the first resource for agricultural science and technology innovation. In order to solve the problems of lack of grassroots agricultural science and technology talents and the difficulty in attracting and retaining outstanding talents, the "Implementation Opinions" emphasizes the establishment of a strong team of agricultural science and technology talents. By creating active and open talent policies, we will attract and retain outstanding agricultural science and technology talents, cultivate professional and technical skills talents, and inject strong impetus into agricultural science and technology innovation. As more and more talents who understand technology and love agriculture take root in the fields and write their papers on the earth, the development of agricultural science and technology will surely bring vitality.

The transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements is a key link in transforming scientific and technological advantages into agricultural productivity. At present, the conversion rate of agricultural scientific and technological achievements in my country is still far from that of developed countries. Many advanced scientific research results have not been applied to agricultural production in a timely manner, resulting in waste of resources. The "Implementation Opinions" clearly state that it is necessary to accelerate the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, to innovate the integrated transfer and transformation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements, to promote the virtuous cycle of financial in the science and technology industry, and to improve the service capabilities of agricultural technology promotion. Only by opening up the "last mile" of results transformation and allowing scientific research results to enter the fields can they truly exert their value and bear fruitful results.

From the laboratory to farmland, from sowing to harvest, the pace of agricultural science and technology innovation and practice has never stopped. With the joint efforts of all parties, we will surely use the pen of science and technology to draw a new picture of agricultural modernization on the vast fields.