2025-12-18
To comprehensively advance rural revitalization and agricultural and rural modernization, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs officially issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Agricultural and Rural Science and Technology Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") at the end of 2021. The Plan is a strategic blueprint formulated against the backdrop of an accelerating new round of technological revolution, unprecedentedly fierce global competition in agricultural technology, and a new stage of national development. It aims to systematically address new challenges and comprehensively shape new advantages for agricultural development through technological self-reliance and self-strengthening. .
I. Core Objective: Emphasizing both systematic development and key performance indicators
The plan sets out a systematic and quantifiable set of goals for 2025. .
Overall strength China's overall agricultural science and technology strength ranks among the world's top tier, and the contribution rate of agricultural science and technology progress has reached [percentage missing]. 64% .
Core technologies We strive to break through a number of "bottleneck" and bottleneck technologies in key areas such as core seed sources, smart agricultural components, and high-end agricultural machinery and equipment. .
System construction The system of agricultural and rural science and technology innovation with Chinese characteristics in the new era has been basically improved, and the leading role of enterprises in innovation has been rapidly enhanced. .
Ecological and environmental protection To achieve green development, the comprehensive utilization rate of livestock and poultry manure should reach 80%, and the comprehensive utilization rate of crop straw should remain stable at over 86%. .
II. Strategic Priorities: Focusing on "Two Key Elements and One Supporting Role"
The plan concentrates limited resources on the most critical and urgent areas, and its strategic priorities can be summarized as "two key areas and one supporting element". .
1. The Key to Seeds (Revitalizing the Seed Industry)
This is the lifeline for ensuring national food security and industrial security. The "Plan" calls for a comprehensive launch of the seed industry revitalization action, with the core approach being to support leading seed companies in conducting joint breeding research through the implementation of major agricultural bio-breeding projects, thereby achieving independent control over core seed sources. .
2. Key Aspects of Farmland (Farmland Protection and Quality Improvement)
This is fundamental to ensuring food security in the land. The plan emphasizes efforts from both the governance and utilization ends: on the one hand, strengthening the protection and utilization of black soil and tackling key technologies such as straw decomposition and carbon sequestration for emission reduction; on the other hand, taking stock of the saline-alkali land resources and innovating comprehensive utilization technologies and models for saline-alkali land. .
3. Agricultural machinery and equipment support
In response to the weaknesses in my country's agricultural machinery equipment, the "Plan" launched an action plan to address these shortcomings. Its core principle is to adhere to a problem-oriented approach, developing both large-scale intelligent machinery suitable for large-scale production in plains areas and small-scale specialized machinery suitable for hilly and mountainous regions. .
III. Implementation Path: Systemic Restructuring Driven by Four Key Pillars
To ensure the achievement of its goals, the plan proposes four strategic pillars: "breakthrough, integration, reshaping, and upgrading," and outlines a clear implementation path. .
breakthrough The aim is to solve the "bottleneck" problem. This involves not only achieving original innovation in cutting-edge technologies such as gene editing and intelligent breeding robots, but also overcoming institutional constraints that hinder the dispersal of scientific research resources and low conversion rates. .
Fusion The aim is to strengthen the integration of industry, academia, research, and application. The key lies in establishing the leading role of enterprises in innovation, enabling them to act as both "problem setters" and "responders," and promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological resources with county-level industries. .
Reshape The aim is to optimize the nation's strategic agricultural scientific and technological capabilities. This involves building high-level agricultural research institutions, optimizing the modern agricultural industry technology system, and deploying major scientific and technological infrastructure to construct a new, tiered, and highly collaborative national system for tackling key agricultural challenges. .
promote The aim is to transform innovative achievements into real productivity. Through jointly building national pilot counties for agricultural science and technology modernization, cultivating high-quality farmers and key agricultural technology extension personnel, the ultimate goal is to achieve an overall leap in agricultural quality, efficiency, and competitiveness. .
Summarize
The "14th Five-Year Plan for National Agricultural and Rural Science and Technology Development" is an action plan with clear objectives, a focus on key priorities, and a well-defined path. It uses breakthroughs in key core technologies as its spearhead and the reshaping of national strategic scientific and technological capabilities as its shield. Through systemic reforms, it aims to stimulate the vitality of various stakeholders, with the ultimate goal of building a strong agricultural science and technology nation by 2035. The implementation of this plan will not only affect the quality of agricultural and rural development over the next five years, but will also lay a solid technological foundation for ensuring national food security and long-term competitiveness.
