Heilongjiang’s Comprehensive Mechanization Rate of Crop Cultivation, Planting, and Harvesting Reaches 99.28%, Ranking First Nationwide

On December 13, the Publicity Department of the CPC Heilongjiang Provincial Committee and the Information Office of the Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Government held the 17th press conference of the themed series “High-Quality Completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan,” focusing on “Vigorously Advancing Agricultural Revitalization and Building Livable, Business-Friendly, and Beautiful Rural Areas.” At the press conference, relevant officials highlighted the achievements made by Heilongjiang Province in advancing agricultural mechanization. They noted that agricultural machinery and equipment are a vital pillar for ensuring national food security and building a strong agricultural nation. Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Heilongjiang has adhered to strengthening equipment capacity, optimizing structural layout, raising standards, and promoting technology, enabling advanced agricultural machinery to play a key role in supporting modern large-scale agriculture and enhancing comprehensive grain production capacity. Major achievements can be summarized in three aspects: 1. Continuous Optimization of Equipment Structure Heilongjiang has simultaneously promoted equipment renewal and the scrapping of obsolete machinery, taking the lead nationwide in implementing a new round of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies and scrappage renewal policies. Since the 14th Five-Year Plan began, the province has subsidized the purchase of more than 700,000 units of various agricultural machines and scrapped over 100,000 outdated units. Heilongjiang was also the first in the country to implement the “premium machines, premium subsidies” policy, focusing on the entire process of plowing, planting, management, and harvesting. Tiered subsidies were increased for four categories of machinery, including power-shift tractors, pneumatic seeders, and plant protection drones. At present, the province has 33,000 agricultural drones—the highest number nationwide—along with 49,000 tractors of 200 horsepower and above and 21,000 pneumatic seeders, ranking among the top in China. With a more optimized machinery structure, greater horsepower, and higher efficiency, Heilongjiang’s comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation, planting, and harvesting has risen to 99.28%, 24 percentage points higher than the national average, firmly ranking first nationwide. 2. Significant Improvement in Production Capacity By matching “good machinery” with “good practices,” high-performance and high-horsepower machinery has enabled advanced agricultural technologies—such as large-ridge dense planting, conservation tillage, straw return, and deep loosening—to be effectively implemented, becoming a key factor in boosting grain yields. Through the promotion of high-performance seeders, seedling emergence rates have increased from about 89% to over 95%. Currently, the province has 660,000 seeders, with a maximum daily sowing capacity exceeding 16 million mu, and 210,000 large harvesting machines, with a maximum daily harvesting capacity exceeding 20 million mu. These capacities fully meet the needs of mechanized spring planting and autumn harvesting. Under normal weather conditions, most regions can complete spring sowing or autumn harvesting within about 10 days. Modern agricultural machinery has become the strongest foundation and most reliable guarantee for seizing the farming season, increasing yields, and achieving bumper harvests. 3. Accelerated Digital and Intelligent Empowerment Guided by the development of smart agriculture and supported by the establishment of national pilot zones for agricultural machinery promotion and application, Heilongjiang has built 26 bases for equipment maturation and推广应用, leading the nationwide adoption of large, high-horsepower, high-end intelligent agricultural machinery. Unmanned tractors, rice transplanters, and harvesters are now operating extensively across the black soil region of Heilongjiang. The province took the lead nationwide in establishing a provincial-level smart agricultural machinery dispatching platform, equipping 130,000 sets of intelligent monitoring terminals to provide real-time monitoring for key farming operations such as no-till seeding, deep loosening, and straw return. Focusing on Beidahuang Group and leveraging modern large-scale agricultural application scenarios, Heilongjiang has built 20 unmanned farming operations, with intelligent machinery application and smart farm construction leading the country, driving modern agriculture toward greater precision, digitalization, and intelligence.