At the two sessions every year, rural revitalization is an important topic discussed by the deputies and members, and this year is no exception, among which digital technology has become a hot topic.
Lian Yuming, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and founding president of the Beijing International Urban Development Research Institute, brought a proposal on digital empowerment of rural revitalization, he believes that there are still problems such as insufficient digital infrastructure and technological innovation, insufficient utilization of big data in agriculture and rural areas, lack of resources such as construction funds and talents, and strengthening digital technology empowerment is the key to solving the problem. Liu Yonghao, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of New Hope Group, also believes that in the grand strategy of strengthening the agricultural country, enterprises should play an important role in multiple dimensions such as industrial chain construction, key resource allocation, and digital empowerment.
In fact, looking back at the practice of digital technology empowering rural revitalization in the past few years, it can be clearly seen that a beautiful picture of rural revitalization "metamorphosis on the cloud" is slowly unfolding.
Rural revitalization "intelligent change"
Lao Wang is a bee farmer, and his headache every year is to divide bees. Bee splitting is the only way for bee colonies to multiply naturally, which is of great significance to the prosperity of bee populations. When a split bee occurs, the old queen bee will take away some of the bees, and the remaining bees and honey will be left for the new queen, so that the split bee is achieved. In the traditional breeding method, the current activity status of the bee colony is usually understood by means of manual observation, but this method works intensively, and frequent opening of the box is easy to interfere with the bee colony.
In Liangdang County, Longnan City, Gansu Province, bee distribution work is a different scene: the local government has joined hands with Tianyi Cloud to create a 5G + smart agriculture model, which uses 100 channels of video and 100 channels of AI analysis to design a bee colony supervision process that integrates image collection, platform management, intelligent analysis, and large-screen display. With the help of AI analysis, beekeepers can predict the behavior of bees through big data, and can carry out manual intervention in advance to achieve "one screen in front of them and control the bee colony". In addition, many scenarios such as internal environmental monitoring of beehives and safety monitoring of beefarm areas have also been intelligentized.
In Liangdang County, beekeeping has plugged in the wings of wisdom and fully demonstrated the changes brought by intelligence to agriculture and animal husbandry. On the one hand, it is to change empirical agriculture into precision agriculture. Agriculture is an ancient industry with a history of thousands of years, and it has always been watching the sky and operating according to the traditional production mode based on experience, but this method will not only waste a lot of manpower and material resources, but also difficult to ensure the quality of production. Smart agriculture, on the other hand, real-time collection of data and information, coupled with AI analysis and monitoring, achieves precise operation, which can greatly improve efficiency and improve product quality.
This is the case with the "intelligent change" in potato farming in Dingxi City, Gansu Province. With the help of Tianyiyun, local farmers have produced better potatoes with the help of supporting comprehensive field monitoring, intelligent water and fertilizer integration, and pest prevention and control equipment in accordance with the guidance of digital agricultural production specifications for potato planting.
On the other hand, it reduces the burden of manpower. Agriculture, which has been a labor-intensive industry for thousands of years, is very heavy at sunrise and sunset. The same is true of animal husbandry, "cattle and sheep run with water and grass, and herders run with cattle and sheep" is the rule, but the transition is more difficult than imagined. Through the adoption of digital technology, people can be freed from many boring and heavy tasks and do more valuable things.
For example, in Serta County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, yaks often encounter problems such as different herds meeting in the same pasture during their transfers, resulting in insufficient forage. The local Bureau of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Science and Technology has joined hands with Tianyi Cloud to build a smart animal husbandry platform, which can realize scientific pasture management and cattle transfer scheduling through the organic combination of digital monitoring and cattle electronic ear tags, effectively avoiding yaks from over-eating the same pasture, so that yaks can "eat enough and grow strong". At the same time, with the help of the cattle transfer scheduling system, herders can also know the location, activity steps, body temperature and health status of cattle at any time, so as to realize "cloud grazing cloud management", which greatly reduces the workload.
Recently, there has been an "AI fever" in all walks of life. It is gratifying that AI has been deeply applied in many scenarios in agriculture and animal husbandry and is playing an increasing value.
From "Cloud" to "Usage"
What is the key to digital technology empowering rural revitalization? The recently released "Digital China Construction Overall Layout Plan" revealed the answer, which clearly put forward "two foundations", one is to open up the artery of digital infrastructure, and the other is to smooth the circulation of data resources.
Do not build towers on floating sand. Digital infrastructure is as important as the foundation of a digital village. In recent years, the construction of digital villages in the mainland has advanced at a rapid pace, and new progress and new results have been continuously achieved, and the reason is that the mainland attaches great importance to the construction of digital infrastructure. According to the recently released "China Digital Rural Development Report (2022)", by the end of 2022, 5G networks will cover all counties and urban areas in the mainland, realizing "broadband from villages to villages" and "5G from counties to counties", which is a good embodiment.
Not only the network, but also the cloud is an important digital infrastructure, and its on-demand deployment, agile development, and convenient maintenance can well meet the needs of rural areas for digitalization. The above-mentioned Serta County intelligent animal husbandry platform is supported by the large memory and high-bandwidth cloud computing services provided by Tianyi Cloud, allowing the platform to run smoothly and quickly and achieve millisecond-level response.
If "going to the cloud" is building a solid digital infrastructure, then "using data" is activating the value of data. In the digital age, data is the new key factor of production. Specific to agriculture and animal husbandry, earth-shaking changes have also taken place in the digital era, and data is the "new agricultural input".
This kind of data includes not only the data of the core production links, such as the monitoring data of the internal temperature, humidity and weight of the beehive mentioned above, and the data of the comprehensive monitoring of the potato planting environment in the field, as well as the data of the whole chain such as the circulation and quality traceability of agricultural and animal husbandry products.
For example, in Dingxi City, Tianyi Cloud not only helped the local potato planting to achieve digital intelligence, but also "used data" in circulation, quality traceability and other links. In the circulation link, a potato price release system has been established to collect real-time data on market prices, sales volume, processing volume and other data in the province, and at the same time establish warehouse data and inventory information system, carry out market industry analysis and judgment, and help farmers sell potatoes at good prices; In the quality monitoring link, through the application of blockchain, big data and other technologies, "electronic certificate + traceability code" is used to make every potato have traces to follow, and the transparent supervision of potatoes is realized.
From "going to the cloud" to "using numbers" and "empowering intelligence", the mainland's agriculture and animal husbandry are achieving qualitative changes with the empowerment of digital technology.
Postscript: The Attack of the Cloud Services National Team
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to accelerate the construction of digital China and accelerate the development of digital economy. Digital villages are an important part of building a digital China and a strategic direction for rural revitalization. Through the construction of digital villages, the flow of capital, technology, talents, materials, etc. can be driven by information flow to rural agglomeration, and the accumulation of various production factors in rural areas can be promoted.
From the current practice of digital villages, it can be seen that digital technology is being applied in many scenarios such as rural governance, farming and breeding, industrial development, and farmers' lives.
Among them, Tianyi Cloud's efforts in helping to promote the construction of digital villages are worth paying attention to. On the one hand, Tianyi Cloud is an industry leader in digital technology, self-developed core components of cloud base, comprehensively upgraded Tianyi Cloud 4.0 distributed cloud, achieved core technology breakthroughs, and launched a wealth of edge cloud products and solutions, extending computing power to edge nodes to meet the scenario needs of emerging applications such as ultra-low latency.
On the other hand, as the world's largest telecom operator cloud and the largest hybrid cloud in China, Tianyi Cloud has built a "2+4+31+X" national cloud-network resource layout, realizing the national deployment of computing power, allowing it to build inclusive and intelligent cloud-network services, thus playing a good supporting role in the construction of digital villages.
Of course, Tianyi Cloud's attack on the digital village also reflects its responsibility and responsibility. As a national team of cloud services, Tianyi Cloud adheres to the integration and development of digital technology as a breakthrough and makes every effort to promote rural revitalization.
From its specific practice, it can be seen that Tianyi Cloud actively uses cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies to continuously expand the application scenarios of digital villages, and has created benchmark cases in the fields of agricultural production, farmers' life, and rural governance. Moreover, in practice, Tianyi Cloud has explored a set of systematic intelligent solutions, which is helping the whole chain of agriculture and animal husbandry to move towards digitalization and intelligence. Taking potato farming in Dingxi County, Gansu Province as an example, Tianyi Cloud has realized four "ones": building a center (Anding District Digital Agriculture Data Center), integrating a platform (Anding District Digital Agriculture Comprehensive Service Platform), forming a system (Anding District Digital Agriculture Production Intelligent Equipment System), and formulating a set of specifications (Digital Agriculture Production Technical Specifications for Potato Planting in Anding District) to help the local agriculture comprehensively transform.
Digital village construction is a long-term and complex systematic project. However, with high-level strategic attention and the active promotion of local governments and digital enterprises, the in-depth integration of digital village construction with local reality and development models will surely embark on a Chinese-style road of agricultural and rural modernization.