In June 2021, “black technologies” such as unmanned leveling tractor, unmanned rotary tillage tractor, unmanned seedling throwing machine, unmanned plant protection machine, and automatic irrigation system were displayed in turn on the high-tech farmland equipped with digital management facilities at the Zoomlion Smart Farming Demonstration Base, Eqiao Town, Wuhu city, Anhui Province, fully demonstrating the wisdom and charm of "unmanned farm". Witnessed by Zhao Chunjiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wang Xiaobing, director of the Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other leaders of relevant departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, responsible persons of the agricultural and rural information system of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, Li Daoliang, dean of the International College of China Agricultural University and other experts from research institutes and representatives of enterprises, "Zoomlion Big-Data-Driven Smart Farm 2025" project was officially unveiled.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed in the proposal on formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan for national economic and social development and the long-term goals for 2035 to strengthen the support of agricultural science and technology and equipment, develop smart farming, improve the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agriculture, and comprehensively promote rural revitalization. Zoomlion is actively responding to the national strategy, increasing investment in scientific and technological innovation, cooperating with top agricultural technical experts and enterprises at home and abroad, promoting the integration of agricultural machinery, agronomy and agricultural credit, and striving to achieve the popularization of comprehensive farmland digital planting solutions and contribute to the development of agricultural modernization by 2025.

It is understood that Zoomlion Smart Farming is the first company in China to launch digital rice cultivation solutions for the whole process. Through five-in-one data collection and model analysis of "sky, air, earth, human and agricultural machinery", information perception, intelligent decision making and accurate operation of the whole process of agricultural production are realized, which has remarkable effects in reducing cost and increasing production, saving fertilizer and reducing medicine and improving quality. This year, under the strong support and guidance of Wuhu Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zoomlion Eqiao Smart Farm copied and promoted the operation mode together with 40 agricultural business entities in each county and district of Wuhu, forming a smart rice planting circle of about 20,000 mu in Wuhu. In addition, Zoomlion Smart Farming is also promoting standardized digital rice planting around Dongting Lake in Hunan province and building a Smart Farming research and training demonstration base in Hunan.

Yuan Yongfu, executive deputy general manager of Zoomlion Smart Farming Company, said that Zoomlion Eqiao Smart Farm will be built into a first-class scientific research center to cultivate and gather top agricultural science and technology talents. At the same time, the farm will also become a model of the smart digital rice base in Wuhu, big-data-driven agriculture base, circular agriculture demonstration base and high-standard digital farmland base, realizing digital control in respect of information collection, real-time monitoring, analysis and processing, and remote control, and forming a demonstration base for agricultural machinery and agronomy integration driven by big data.

Xiong Yanming, vice president of Zoomlion, said that Zoomlion is committed to becoming a high-tech enterprise driven by the "twin engines" of high-end intelligent agricultural machinery and intelligent agriculture based on the development needs of modern agriculture and data. In the future, Zoomlion will accelerate the application of new technologies such as Internet of Things, 5G and artificial intelligence in the field of agricultural machinery, create digital planting schemes for the whole process of crops, constantly improve the mechanization, digitalization and intelligence level of agricultural production, promote industrial integration and upgrading, and contribute to the high-quality and sustainable development of agriculture.