Over 64%! China's contribution rate of agricultural technological progress will reach a new level by 2025.

The new agricultural productive forces are the hot words in the proposed suggestions for 2025. At the routine press conference of the State Council Information Office, relevant officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stated that by 2025, China's contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress will exceed 64%, achieving a number of major technological achievements. Tao Huaiying, Director of the Planning and Finance Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced that in basic research: by 2025, China has successfully revealed the mystery of transforming a single plant cell into a complete plant, and cloned the world's first heat-resistant gene in rice; in frontier research, agricultural biomanufacturing technology has made original breakthroughs, "artificial intelligence + agriculture" is accelerating its layout, and smart agriculture models are continuously iterated and applied; in industrial technology, the development of new wheat varieties, such as Yangmai 53, has paved the way for successfully solving the difficult problems of resistance to Fusarium head blight, high yields, and coordinated improvement of quality; progress has also been made in the development of agricultural machinery and equipment, effectively alleviating the problems of "unavailable inorganic" and "inefficient organic" in some areas of agricultural machinery in hilly and mountainous areas. Next, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will focus on promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, vigorously developing new agricultural productive forces.