Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Based on serving the overall strategy of building a technology strong country and an agriculture strong country, we deeply understand the importance and urgency of accelerating agricultural science and technology innovation.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a meeting of the leadership group for scientific and technological innovation. The meeting stressed the need to effectively improve political positioning, focus on serving the overall construction of a strong country in science and technology and agriculture, deeply understand the urgency and importance of accelerating agricultural scientific and technological innovation, focus on key areas and key links to carry out agricultural scientific and technological innovation work, and accelerate the high-level self-reliance of agricultural science and technology. It is necessary to focus on top-level design, highlight planning guidance, and safeguard the rapid development of agricultural science and technology with a high-quality policy system. It is necessary to focus on task layout, strengthen basic agricultural research, increase the efforts in tackling key core agricultural technologies, and accelerate the transformation and application of agricultural scientific and technological achievements. It is necessary to focus on platform construction, focus on emerging fields such as bio-manufacturing, artificial intelligence, etc., plan and layout a batch of key laboratories, pilot plants, and concept verification platforms, break through hardware bottlenecks from basic research to cutting-edge technological breakthroughs, and shorten the conversion cycle of new technologies from research and development to the market. It is necessary to focus on system construction, promote the strengthening of the agricultural science and technology innovation system, the industrial technology system, and the agricultural technology extension system in an integrated manner, actively cultivate and strengthen the agricultural science and technology service system, and accelerate the overall efficiency improvement of the agricultural science and technology innovation system. It is necessary to focus on topic selection and project approval, adhere to the principle of "industrial proposals, technological answers", vigorously promote organized and institutionalized research and development efforts, and strictly control acceptance and evaluation to accelerate the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements into practical productivity.