Recently, Professor Zheng Jun of the School of Economics and Management published a theoretical article titled "Decoding the Basic Core of New Quality Agricultural Productivity" the Farmer's Daily. The full text is as follows:

This year's No. 1 document from the central government has for the first time put forward the important concept of new quality productive forces in agriculture, which represents a new direction and path for the modernization of agriculture in China. In essence, the new quality productive forces in agriculture are driven by and take scientific and technological innovation as the core element, and through the introduction of new equipment and new technologies in agricultural production, they realize the optimization and combination of factors such as laborers, means of labor, and objects of labor, and the leap in the level of energy, leading to the improvement of the total factor productivity and realizing a high-efficiency, green, and sustainable advanced productive forces quality state in agricultural development. 

In terms of its core connotation, it is mainly reflected in three aspects: First, technological innovation. This is the core engine of the new quality agricultural productivity, including the application of technologies such as biotechnology, unmanned aerial vehicle technology, artificial intelligence technology, and digital technology. Second, elemental reorganization. This the basic support for the new quality of agricultural productivity. The development of new quality productivity includes not only the qualitative change of basic elements such as laborers, means of labor, objects of labor but also the effective improvement of the optimization and combination of these basic elements. Third, model innovation. This is the path to realize the new quality of agricultural productivity. aims to develop a new industrial form with vertical integration of the industrial chain and cross-border integration, to promote the extension of agricultural production from a single link to the whole chain and traditional agriculture to multi-functional agriculture. 

Taking technological innovation as the core engine, strengthening agricultural science and technology support. Breaking through key core technologies in agriculture. Playing the role of major agricultural scientific research platforms such as Nanfan Silicon Valley, accelerating the breakthrough of a number of breakthrough varieties; strengthening the research and development of intelligent equipment, and improving the level of precision and automation of agricultural production. Perfecting the agricultural science and technology innovation system. Firstly, it is necessary to strengthen the main position of enterprise science and technology innovation, cultivate leading agricultural science and technology enterprises, and promote deep integration of industry, education and research. Secondly, it is necessary to build a university-research institute-enterprise linkage system, and improve innovation efficiency through scientific research project tilt, intellectual property protection, and international academic exchanges. Thirdly, it is necessary to establish a market-oriented green technology innovation system, and solve the problems of the separation of science and technology industry, and the scattered scientific and technological innovation mechanism. Accelerate the transformation of agricultural science and technology achievements. Each region should build a number of agricultural science and technology achievement transformation bases and demonstration parks to promote the promotion and application of advanced and applicable technologies. Strengthen the construction of the basic agricultural technology extension system and improve the technical implementation rate. At the same time, we should actively develop the agricultural science and technology social service system, support science and technology village officials, local experts and so on to carry out technical services in the fields, support the development of smart agriculture, and expand the application scenarios of digital technology.

Focusing on the reorganization of elements, improve the efficiency of resource allocation. Cultivate new types of agricultural operating entities. Strengthen the training high-quality farmers, and improve the market analysis and brand operation capabilities of farmers who are engaged in production and operation; enhance the practical skills such as UAV plant protection and intelligent management of professional and technical farmers; develop new service professions such as social service-type agricultural managers and rural culture and tourism planners. Support family farms, farmers' cooperatives and other operating entities to apply new technologies and new models, and play an exemplary leading role. Promote data elements empowering agriculture. Construct provincial-city-county agricultural data platform, integrate data resources such as agricultural production, market, resources, and promote data sharing and open use.

Expand the space for agricultural development by innovating models. Develop new businesses in smart agriculture. Promote the intelligentization of agricultural production, develop efficient models such as precision agriculture, facility agriculture, and plant factories. Promote the wide use of water and fertilizer integration, variable rate fertilization, and precise irrigation to water and fertilizer and improve the efficiency of resource utilization; build a number of smart agriculture demonstration bases, and create replicable and popularizable typical models. Promote the integrated development of industries. Drive the transformation and upgrading of the processing industry of agricultural products, and create industrial clusters with distinctive agricultural characteristics; develop new industries and new formats such as leisure agriculture, rural, and rural cultural innovation, and expand the multiple functions of agriculture; promote the deep integration of rural culture and tourism, and improve the level of characteristic and boutique rural tourism. a modern agricultural business system. Governments at all levels should strive to improve the agricultural socialization service system, develop specialized services such as production trusteeship and farming on behalf of others improve the linkage and lead mechanisms, promote the cooperation models such as company   cooperative   farmer, and enable farmers to share more of the value-added benefits of the; cultivate agricultural industrialization joint bodies, and promote the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain; and promote the construction of agricultural product brands, and enhance market and added value.

The development of new quality productive forces in agriculture is a long-term systematic project that requires the joint efforts of technological innovation, institutional innovation, and policy innovation and the participation of various parties including the government, enterprises, research institutions, and farmers. It is necessary to respect the laws of agricultural production and regional differences, explore development paths for different regions based on local conditions. It is necessary to properly handle the relationship between the government and the market, strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, and learn from advanced experience.

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