Premier’s Visit Spurs Smart Agri‑Machinery Development(August 28)

Premier's Inspection Sets the Tone for "Tech-Driven Agriculture": Agricultural Machinery Industry Embraces New Opportunities in High-End Intelligent Development

From August 24 to 26, 2026, Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted an inspection tour in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, focusing on autumn grain production and agricultural modernization. During the tour, Premier Li explicitly called for "strengthening the development and promotion of high-end agricultural machinery and accelerating the application of artificial intelligence and smart agriculture," a statement that pointed the way forward for the agricultural machinery industry and sent a strong signal of favorable policy.

Into the Fields: Premier Highlights Key Priorities for the Agricultural Machinery Industry

On August 25, Premier Li first visited Jiamusi in Heilongjiang Province, entering the dryland fields and the 10,000-mu rice paddies of the Qixing Farm under the Beidahuang Group to inspect the growth of soybeans, corn, and rice. There, he emphasized that food security is a matter of paramount national importance, and that with the autumn grain yield entering its critical formation period, field management must be strengthened to ensure a bumper harvest for the autumn and the entire year.

Subsequently, Premier Li visited the Jiansanjiang National Agricultural Science and Technology Park and the Rice Research Institute of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, where he inquired in detail about seed industry innovation and black soil protection. It was here that he issued directives of profound significance to the agricultural machinery industry: "The path to increasing grain yields lies in science and technology." Premier Li explicitly stated the need to deepen improved seed breeding, implement cross-disciplinary research, strengthen the development and promotion of high-end agricultural machinery, and accelerate the application of artificial intelligence and smart agriculture. He also stressed the importance of actively adopting engineering, agronomic, and biological measures to protect black soil, advancing high-standard farmland construction, and promoting the integrated efficiency of good fields, good seeds, good machines, and good methods.

From "Having Machines Available" to "Having Machines That Work Well": Enthusiastic Industry Response

The Premier's directive to "strengthen the development and promotion of high-end agricultural machinery" precisely addressed the core proposition of current agricultural machinery industry development. Around the time of the Premier's inspection, a series of industry developments had already demonstrated a positive trend toward high-end and intelligent advancement.

High-end smart agricultural machinery promotion is accelerating. On August 26, the Qianshao Farm under the Beidahuang Group organized a field training event for domestically produced high-end smart agricultural machinery, inviting 9 domestic agricultural machinery companies to showcase over 20 models of high-end smart equipment, including high-horsepower tractors, multi-functional integrated machines, and harvesters, covering the entire production chain of plowing, planting, management, and harvesting. This event echoed the Premier's directives, demonstrating the industry's practical exploration of shifting from "whether machines are available" to "whether machines perform well."

Leading enterprises are accelerating their smart agriculture布局. On August 18, China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach) and the Beidahuang Group signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to deepen collaboration in digital agriculture and the R&D and application of high-end agricultural equipment, accelerating the promotion and deployment of high-end agricultural machinery. The partnership between two industry giants was seen as an important signal for advancing the industrialization of domestically produced high-end agricultural equipment.

Smart agricultural machinery coverage continues to rise. Taking the Jiangbin Branch of Beidahuang Agriculture Co., Ltd. as an example, the branch currently owns 11,000 units (sets) of modern agricultural machinery, with over 3,000 units (sets) of various smart agricultural equipment, covering smart seeders, crop protection drones, smart harvesters, high-horsepower smart tractors, and other full-category equipment, with a comprehensive mechanization rate for major crops exceeding 99.7%.

During his inspection at Jilin Xuxin Grain and Oil Co., Ltd., Premier Li emphasized the need to vigorously develop deep processing of agricultural products and deliver on the value-added transformation of "from grain to food" and "from farm to table." He also called for strict food quality and safety controls, strengthening full-chain supervision from field to table.

From the agricultural machinery industry's perspective, this signals an important trend: the service boundaries of agricultural equipment are extending from the field to post-harvest stages. Mechanization and intelligent upgrading of grain drying, storage, processing, and other post-harvest links will become a new direction for agricultural machinery companies to expand their business, with market demand for full-chain agricultural machinery solutions spanning "plowing, planting, management, harvesting, drying, storage, and processing" expected to continue growing.

Outlook: The Agricultural Machinery Industry Stands at a New Starting Point for High-Quality Development

Premier Li's Northeast inspection elevated "strengthening the development and promotion of high-end agricultural machinery" to the strategic level of safeguarding national food security. Combined with the target set in the "15th Five-Year Plan for Agricultural Machinery Industry Development" issued by the China Association of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers — "raising the domestic content rate of high-end agricultural machinery core components to over 90% by 2030" — the agricultural machinery industry is standing at a new starting point, transitioning from "scale expansion" to "quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, and self-reliance."

For the broad agricultural machinery industry, high-end development, intelligentization, and self-reliance will be the core tracks for future growth. Whoever can率先 achieve breakthroughs in core component development, AI integration, and smart agriculture solutions will seize the initiative in this industry transformation.

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