National food security stands as a strategic priority crucial for sustaining economic development and ensuring long-term social stability. In 2025, China's grain production successfully overcame challenges posed by disasters including high temperatures, drought, and prolonged rainy spells, with total national grain output reaching 1.4298 trillion jin, achieving high-level growth. As China's top grain-producing province, Heilongjiang has accelerated its development of modern large-scale agriculture; its grain output hit 164.006 billion jin in 2025, maintaining the leading national position for 16 consecutive years.
Technological empowerment begins with superior seeds. With the Spring Festival approaching, the grain and oil processing enterprise of soybean grower Chen Liang in Heilongjiang is operating at full capacity. Speaking about last year's harvest, he could not conceal his joy: "In 2025, the yield per hectare reached about 7,000 jin, whereas around 6,000 jin was considered high yield in the past." This production increase stems from a newly promoted cold-tolerant, high-yield soybean variety introduced locally last year. Throughout 2025, China focused on advancing biological breeding and smart breeding technologies, making breakthroughs in core seed resources for crops like corn and soybeans to address critical bottlenecks; efforts concentrated on developing high-yield, stress-resistant, machine-harvestable, and green specialty varieties, leading to quality improvements and efficiency gains in the breeding of rice, wheat, soybeans, corn, fruits, vegetables, and coarse grains.
Sowing superior seeds and operating advanced machinery have brought tangible income growth to agriculture. For large-scale grain farmer Wang Fugui, the secret to his 20% production increase last year was upgrading his agricultural machinery. Wang stated: "The higher corn yield I achieved in 2025 owes much to the role of these two seeders." Intelligent farming has emerged as a new engine for precise production increases and scaled efficiency gains in Chinese agriculture. Data shows that in 2025, China's comprehensive mechanization rate for crop farming reached 76.7%, with major crops essentially achieving full-process mechanization from planting to harvesting.
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