A major breakthrough in industrial upgrading

Fertile land, diligent cultivators, and an unending stream of dedication. For a long time, Jianli, a major grain-producing county on the Jianghan Plain, has lived up to its richly endowed land, with the benefits of fish and rice enriching the people and benefiting the wider world.

Developing modern agriculture based on China's national conditions is both a matter of continuously raising productivity and upgrading equipment and technology, and a matter of continuously adjusting production relations and upgrading and improving cooperation and market orientation. For farmers, reducing labor burdens and increasing harvest returns, a mixed operation of increases and decreases, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, is the very process of accumulating a happiness index and moving toward modern civilization.

For ordinary farming households and even large growers, the difficult problem that urgently needs to be solved in the production process lies in full-chain socialized services. Specialized services and socialized services, the “two wheels,” turn and in turn drive the “other two wheels” of intensified and large-scale production, with “four-wheel drive” pulling the carriage of modern agriculture forward.

For ordinary farming households and even large growers, the difficult problem that urgently needs to be solved in the contest with the big market lies in the integration of the entire industrial chain. The seedling-raising factory follows refined specialized division of labor, uses shared interests as a bond, and carries out market-based operation of each industrial link, thus bursting with vigorous vitality.

People at all levels in Jianli County highly praise the “seedling-raising factory,” and some experts and specialists also believe it “fundamentally eliminates and overcomes the limitations of farmers' household management.” Whether one calls it the “front-wheel drive theory” or the “shoring up weak links theory,” from the current practice it appears that, in terms of promoting grain production and the rice industry, it is a successful upgrading and transformation.

What deeper changes will the “four major chains” strung together by the seedling-raising factory bring? We will continue to watch with anticipation.