Scientific and technological innovation is the fundamental driving force to promote agricultural and rural modernization. China’s efforts to build an agricultural power and enhance its international competitiveness are inseparable from the powerful drive of scientific and technological innovation. Strengthening agricultural scientific and technological innovation and deepening the integration of agriculture and science and technology have important practical significance.
Scientific and technological innovation is the source of power for agricultural development. The integration of agriculture and science and technology is not a simple combination of agriculture and science and technology, but a process of integrating science and technology into agricultural production as a core input factor. Through scientific and technological innovation, the endogenous growth of agriculture is realized and the competitiveness of agriculture is enhanced.
To strengthen the integration of agriculture and science and technology, we must plan a grand strategy, build a big platform and achieve great cooperation. It is necessary to stimulate new kinetic energy of integration through institutional mechanism innovation, continuously release new vitality of integration through policy guidance, improve the level of agricultural modernization, and promote high-quality agricultural development.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed during his inspection tour in Jilin: "The key to agricultural modernization is the modernization of agricultural science and technology. To strengthen the integration of agriculture and science and technology and strengthen agricultural science and technology innovation, researchers should write their papers on the land and let farmers grow the best food with the best technology. " The fundamental way out for agriculture lies in modernization, which is the foundation and support of national modernization. With the deepening of agricultural modernization, the supporting role of science and technology has become increasingly prominent. Agricultural development has entered a new stage led by scientific and technological innovation, and it is even more necessary to rely on science and technology to achieve innovation drive. Facing the new situation, new tasks and new requirements, it is necessary to further strengthen the integration of agriculture and science and technology, constantly release the vitality of innovation and provide new kinetic energy for agricultural modernization.
Practical significance of strengthening the integration of agriculture and science and technology
Today, the world is experiencing a great change that has never happened in a century. A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is booming. Global scientific and technological innovation has entered an unprecedented intensive and active period, and science and technology are driving economic and social development with unprecedented power. Practice has proved that scientific and technological innovation is the fundamental driving force to promote agricultural and rural modernization. China’s efforts to build an agricultural power and enhance its international competitiveness are inseparable from the powerful drive of scientific and technological innovation. Strengthening agricultural scientific and technological innovation and deepening the integration of agriculture and science and technology have important practical significance.
This is the need to enhance the global competitiveness of China’s agriculture. For a big country with a population of 1.4 billion, the basic position of agriculture cannot be ignored or weakened at any time, and it is true at any time to have food in hand and not panic in heart. Since the reform and opening up, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s agricultural modernization has achieved remarkable results, and the comprehensive agricultural production capacity has been greatly improved, which has provided strong support for economic and social development. Under the new situation, we should focus on solving the deep-seated contradictions and problems in agricultural development, focusing on adjusting the structure of agricultural products, improving the ability of agricultural risk resistance and the level of agricultural modernization. It should be deeply recognized that the key to seize the commanding heights of global agricultural competition, win the strategic initiative and continuously enhance the global influence and discourse power of China’s agriculture lies in improving the strength of scientific and technological innovation. This requires us to innovate and break through the policy mechanism, actively attract and gather international outstanding agricultural scientific and technological talents, teams, resources and other innovative elements, coordinate the domestic and foreign markets and global scientific and technological resources, and enhance the global competitiveness of China’s agriculture.
This is the need to realize the leap from a big agricultural country to a powerful agricultural country. A modern agricultural power means strong ability of food security, strong competitiveness of agricultural products, strong modern facilities and equipment, strong ability of sustainable development and strong quality of agricultural workers. To leap into an agricultural power, it is urgent to rely on scientific and technological innovation to promote variety creation, research and development of intelligent equipment, and socialized services. Only by continuously strengthening the integration of agriculture and science and technology can we effectively promote the transformation of agricultural development mode, form a high-quality, efficient and dynamic modern agricultural industrial system, and provide a steady stream of power for the leap from a large agricultural country to an agricultural power.
This is the need to promote the high-quality development of agriculture. To achieve high-quality agricultural development, it requires high product quality, high eco-economic benefits and high comprehensive production efficiency, which requires rapidly improving the level of agricultural scientific and technological innovation and the supply quality of industrial technological achievements, realizing the transformation from quantity-oriented to quantity-quality-benefit, from agricultural production to ecology, culture and leisure, and from single technological innovation to multi-technology integration, new mode construction and new format cultivation.
This is the need to ensure efficient utilization and sustainable development of resources. The relative shortage of cultivated land, water and other resource elements is an important factor affecting the sustainable development of agriculture in China. The integration of science and technology into agricultural production as a production factor will improve the level of intelligent agricultural equipment, reduce the intensity of resource utilization and improve the efficiency of recycling. For example, through green technologies such as efficient water-saving irrigation and drainage, fertilization and pesticide application, the utilization rate of water and fertilizer can be improved, soil conservation of cultivated land can be maintained, and the sustainable development of agriculture can be promoted.
The main connotation of strengthening the integration of agriculture and science and technology
The integration of agriculture and science and technology is the process of integrating factors into production. The integration of agriculture and science and technology is not a simple combination of agriculture and science and technology, but a process of integrating science and technology into agricultural production as a core input factor. Through scientific and technological innovation, the endogenous growth of agriculture is realized and the competitiveness of agriculture is enhanced. The development of agriculture in the future will depend on the ability of scientific and technological innovation, which is the source of power for agricultural development.
The integration of agriculture and science and technology is the redistribution of resource elements. As a core element, science and technology not only participate in the production process, but also bring about the optimization and coordinated development of the existing production factors. Collaborative development is the objective necessity of the integration of agricultural industry development and scientific and technological progress, and the essential requirement of improving innovation ability and efficiency and promoting agricultural modernization.
The integration of agriculture and science and technology promotes the multi-agent interest connection. The integration of agriculture and science and technology will inevitably bring about the innovation of cooperation mode and cooperation mechanism of modern agricultural stakeholders, and promote the formation of development synergy. For example, promote multi-agent collaborative research, and explore and form a collaborative research model with interest linkage between agricultural enterprises and scientific research institutions to achieve in-depth cooperation between agriculture and science and technology and reasonable profit sharing.
The integration of agriculture and science and technology promotes the perfection of modern agricultural industrial chain. Scientific and technological innovation serves the whole chain of agricultural production. Taking key core technologies as the breakthrough point and the main direction, taking the integration of science and technology with seed industry, science and technology with agricultural production, science and technology with industrial services, and science and technology with ecology as the path, through the integration of agriculture and science and technology, the level of the whole agricultural industrial chain will be continuously improved.
Countermeasures and suggestions on strengthening the integration of agriculture and science and technology
To strengthen the integration of agriculture and science and technology, we must plan a grand strategy, build a big platform and achieve great cooperation. It is necessary to stimulate new kinetic energy of integration through institutional mechanism innovation, continuously release new vitality of integration through policy guidance, improve the level of agricultural modernization, and promote high-quality agricultural development.
The first is strategic planning and forward-looking layout. Focusing on the requirements of rural revitalization and agricultural and rural modernization, aiming at the transformation and development trend of modern agricultural science and technology, strategically planning the layout of major scientific and technological innovations, and combining the long-term characteristics of basic research and agricultural technological innovation, systematically and step by step deploying major scientific and technological innovation tasks of modern agriculture in the future.
The second is to build a big platform and achieve great cooperation. Based on scientific and technological innovation and oriented to industrialization, we will promote the concentration of innovative elements, the integration of key technologies, the concentration of affiliated enterprises and advantageous industrial clusters, build a platform for the integration of science and technology economy, build an agricultural silicon valley, and build a regional center for the integration of agriculture and science and technology. Encourage and support well-known agricultural science and technology enterprises to integrate into the big platform, achieve great cooperation, cross-disciplinary integration and multi-technical routes in parallel, break through a number of key common technologies that are "stuck in the neck" in agricultural development, ensure the supply of key core technologies, support and lead new formats and new models, and give birth to new kinetic energy for agricultural development.
The third is to innovate the institutional mechanism to promote integration. Promote the linkage between science and technology and agriculture and the innovation of distribution mechanism, and truly turn the integration of science and technology and agriculture into the conscious behavior of the subject. We will promote the reform of agricultural science and technology investment guarantee and sustainable growth mechanism, strengthen the connection and linkage between agriculture and science and technology policies, and focus all reforms on promoting the deep integration of agriculture and science and technology and the rational sharing of interests among all parties.
The fourth is to stimulate the enthusiasm of all subjects for integration. The enthusiasm of the subject is the biggest adhesive for the integration of agriculture and science and technology. Supporting large, medium and small enterprises and all kinds of subjects to integrate innovation can stimulate the subjective initiative of each subject and achieve greater efficiency. Resolutely get rid of "only papers, only professional titles, only academic qualifications, only awards", innovate the evaluation and reward system for scientific researchers, take the overall goal of improving the ability of independent innovation and the core competitiveness of agricultural industry, take solving major strategic scientific and technological problems as the standard, attach importance to long-term assessment and stable funding, strengthen the docking between supply and demand of all subjects, and further promote the cooperation between R&D and the application of agricultural industry needs.
The fifth is to strengthen policy guidance and continuously release the vitality of integration and innovation. We will deepen institutional reforms such as ownership of scientific and technological achievements and distribution of transformation income, and improve the incentive mechanism for transformation of achievements. Further refine the supporting policies to support the integration of agriculture and science and technology, and improve the policies of integration, investment in science and technology, and transformation of achievements in Industry-University-Research. Promote the establishment of special funds such as agricultural venture capital guidance and intellectual property operation, and expand financing channels. While attracting more social capital investment, we will increase financial support and set up a special fund for the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements to provide financial guarantee for promoting the integration of science and technology with agriculture. Create a platform for the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, and explore the establishment of a new model for the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements with government promotion, market guidance and enterprise operation.