Development Plan for Digital Agriculture and Rural Areas (2019-2025).

This Development Plan for Digital Agriculture and Rural Areas (2019-2025) is a cross-sectoral policy document at the national level. The Plan is prepared to implement the Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Implementing the Rural Revitalization Strategy, the Strategic Plan for Rural Revitalization (2018-2022) and the Outline of Digital Rural Development Strategy; and to accelerate development of precision agriculture and rural production and administration, smart management services, and rural government digitization.
The Plan sets up development goals, which include: Major accomplishments to support the Digital Countryside Strategy will be made by 2025 in the expansion of digital technologies in agriculture and rural areas; The data collection system for agriculture and rural areas will be in place with the groundwork for the: Space/Aerial/Ground observation network, fundamental data resources as well as the cloud platform for agriculture and rural development; Accelerate integration of digital technology with the industrial, production and management systems in agriculture, thus: making significant progress in digitally transforming agricultural production and management; markedly improving digital proficiencies among administrators; substantially increasing the share of digital agriculture; and making the rural digital governance system better day by day.
The Plan seeks to make agriculture and fisheries more productive and sustainable. Main actions proposed in the Plan include: (1) Building natural resources data for agriculture; (2) Build big data on shared rural assets; (3) Build rural homestead data; (4) Establish a smart environmental monitoring program for rural residents; etc. More Specifically, The Plan proposes: provide exploitable big data on parcel land title, metes and bounds, quality, and cultivation type by utilizing data resources including: rural land contractor management right order recordation; perpetual basic farmland platting stored on high detail maps; arable land quality surveys and monitoring; designate food production areas and agricultural production protection areas; data such as infrastructure on agricultural purpose land; and set up a database containing fundamental information on arable land; establish exploitable big data on both domestic and global inland and ocean fishery resources by surveying the spatial distribution of fishery waters, boards, ports, and navigational aids.
The Plan seeks to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems. The main tasks contain: 1. Set up a fundamental data resource program, which include: (1) establishing data resources on important agricultural germplasm; (2) Improving big data on farmers and new agricultural businesses, to gradually achieve full coverage of agricultural businesses and dynamic production and business information to optimize fundamental data on business identification, employment, production management, subsidy distribution, regulation and inspection, use of inputs, training, and marketing; 2. Accelerate digital transformation in production operations, such as smart livestock management, smart fisheries, seed industry digitization, start-to-finish quality and safety controls; 3. Foster a digital transformation in digital management services, including (1) Establish a technically advanced robust rural agriculture decision-making program; (2) Complete the monitoring and early warning program along the entire agricultural product supply chain, etc. 4. Increase innovation of essential technologies and equipment; 5. Increase major infrastructure construction projects.
The Plan seeks to increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters. Rural Agriculture Aerial Observation Network Development and Implementation Project is proposed to meet rural agriculture demands for the high precision surveying and contingency monitoring of major agricultural emergencies and disasters by: focusing efforts on developing rural agriculture aerial monitoring networks made up of national and provincial centers branch offices; purchasing of advanced UAVs, such as long-endurance fixed-wing aircraft and highly-mobile multirotor aircraft, equipped with state-of-the-art sensors including specialized multispectral sensors, hyperspectral sensors, laser radar sensors, and terahertz sensors; developing UAV navigation flight control systems, operation monitoring systems, and data processing platforms suitable for Chinese agricultural production and specific to regional demands; and improving regional highprecision observation and rapid emergency response capabilities.
In terms of governance, the Plan proposes to build a rural digital governance program. Actions include: Fostering extension of the Internet+ community into the rural areas by: informatizing comprehensive services at the village level; and gradually implementing online operations village-level administrative work; Accelerating informatizing rural planning and administration to foster rural map indexing, lookup, and real-time tracking; Improving online management of rural infrastructure development and rural public services.