In the height of summer, the Hetao Plain in Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, is vibrant with growing corn and golden wheat, presenting a scene of thriving life.
Located at the southern foot of the Yinshan Mountains and along the Yellow River, the Hetao Plain has been renowned for millennia as the "Granary Beyond the Great Wall" due to its unique self-irrigation system. It serves as a core grain production area in northern China and a strategic pillar for national food security. From water diversion and cultivation in the Qin and Han dynasties to today's large-scale and intensive operations, this fertile land has always shouldered the responsibility of securing food production in the northern frontier.
Today, a profound transformation in smart agriculture is quietly taking place here. On July 21st, the 2026 China Agricultural Machinery Promotion Field Day event launched at the Linhe Farm of the Bayannur National Agricultural High-Tech Industrial Demonstration Zone. Weichai Lovol's integrated smart agriculture solutions were deployed across the Hetao fields, using intelligent equipment, digital systems, and full-chain services to precisely address regional production challenges and systematically restructure agricultural production models. This provides technological support for the transformation, upgrading, quality, and efficiency improvement of the "Granary Beyond the Great Wall," and creates a live model for the modernization, large-scale, and standardized development of dryland farming in northern China.
Smart Agricultural Machinery Breaks Ground, Precisely Solving Pain Points in Hetao Agriculture
The Hetao Plain has abundant arable land resources and a solid farming foundation. However, long-standing issues such as soil compaction, localized salinization, and complex field conditions have led to poor adaptability of traditional agricultural machinery and high losses during tillage, planting, and harvesting, limiting further increases in production capacity.
Addressing the specific agricultural characteristics of the region, Weichai Lovol's smart agriculture division has launched customized intelligent equipment solutions targeting the three core stages of tillage, planting, and harvesting to fill gaps and unlock potential.
In the tillage stage, the Weichai Lovol E4104 hybrid tractor, paired with a hydraulic plow, performs unmanned operations. Its powerful torque and deep tillage capabilities break the soil compaction layer and loosen the topsoil, creating an optimal environment for deep root growth and nutrient absorption.
During the planting stage, Lovol power-shift tractors simultaneously tow a compound drill seeder and an electric-drive precision planter. Leveraging a high-precision intelligent seeding control system, they ensure uniform seeding depth, regular plant spacing, and accurate seed placement. This significantly improves the standardization and precision of planting, guaranteeing strong seedlings from the start and laying a solid foundation for stable and high yields.
In the harvesting stage, the domestically largest 500-horsepower, 23 kg/s throughput Lovol Gushen GS8239 grain combine harvester made a prominent appearance, working in coordination with other large intelligent harvesters like the Lovol Gushen GK7168, GK6126, and GM5125. Equipped with an advanced edge navigation assisted driving system, these machines feature massive operational throughput and intelligent precision cleaning technology. They perfectly adapt to the complex field conditions and diverse crop types of the Hetao region, effectively solving problems of high losses, low efficiency, and poor adaptability in traditional harvesting, thus maximizing the potential of the land's productivity.
Deepening Full-Chain Services to Empower Diversified Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Development
As a core area for integrating agriculture and animal husbandry in northern China, the Hetao Plain has developed a diversified planting structure that coordinates grain, oil crops, cash crops, and forage. Traditional single-grain agricultural machinery service models are no longer sufficient to meet the integrated development needs of "grain, oil, cash crops, and forage."
Therefore, Weichai Lovol's smart agriculture division has built a diversified, full-scenario modern agricultural full-chain service system to precisely empower local industrial upgrading.
In the dedicated agricultural and livestock silage area, the Lovol FB20A1 silage harvester and MC290-Y mower-conditioner work in tandem, achieving integrated operations for cutting, conditioning, and collecting silage crops. This provides professional equipment support for the integrated crop-livestock cycle agriculture model, helping to improve quality and efficiency in the Hetao's agriculture and livestock industry.
In the fuel-saving and loss-reduction zone, two high-end Lovol Gushen CE06 and CF04 corn harvesters were unveiled. Relying on core technologies of high efficiency, energy saving, and low loss, they effectively reduce field operation energy consumption and grain harvest losses, perfectly adapting to the cultivation models of cash crops like corn and miscellaneous grains.
From main grain cultivation to the consideration of both cash crops and forage, from single operations to full-chain empowerment, Weichai Lovol is comprehensively breaking down service barriers across various agricultural sub-scenarios in Hetao. By perfecting a diversified and adaptable modern agricultural service system, it fully matches the needs for industrialization, large-scale production, and specialized development of local agriculture. This drives diversified value creation for Hetao agriculture and injects new momentum into the revitalization of rural industries.
The strategy of "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology" is being realized. As the promotion scope of Weichai Lovol's integrated smart agriculture solutions continues to expand, the confidence for abundant harvests across thousands of miles of farmland in the northern frontier will grow even stronger. A new chapter of rural revitalization and agricultural modernization in the new era is unfolding along the banks of the Yellow River.
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