Informatization has become an important driver in the construction of modern agriculture.

The Central Rural work Conference is approaching, and market expectations for the No. 1 document of the Central Committee in 2016 are rising. Experts say the new document No. 1 will continue to focus on agricultural modernization. With the rapid penetration of the Internet in agriculture and policy support for the development of agricultural Internet of things and rural e-commerce, agricultural informatization will become the focus of agricultural policy in the future.

Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology held a forum on the preparation of the 13th five-year Plan for scientific and technological innovation in agricultural and rural areas. the meeting held that it is suggested that this planning should further strengthen the input of resources for the overall planning of scientific research projects, platforms, and talent construction, and coordinate the relationship between national common problems and regional differences. Under the strong promotion of the policy, rural e-commerce, agricultural informatization and other subdivided industries will usher in rapid development opportunities.

Agricultural informatization is an important driving force to promote agricultural modernization, which can effectively resolve the difficulties faced by food security and food safety. At present, the degree of external dependence of some agricultural products in China is high, the internal and external price difference is large, and the area of cultivated land continues to decrease, which must be solved by means of agricultural modernization to improve agricultural production efficiency.

With the development of information and Internet technology and its application in the agricultural industry chain, the Internet of things and big data make the information between the service providers of agricultural materials, finance, technology and farmers more symmetrical, which will effectively shorten the length of the agricultural industry supply chain and greatly improve the efficiency of resource allocation in the agricultural industry chain.

This year, various ministries and commissions to the State Council have continued to issue relevant policies to support the development of rural e-commerce. The Internet + Circulation Action Plan of the Ministry of Commerce has identified the entry of e-commerce into rural areas as the first major goal. The executive meeting of the State Council also made special arrangements for speeding up the development of rural e-commerce. On November 9, the General Office of the State Council issued the guidance on accelerating the Development of Rural Electronic Commerce. On November 17, the Ministry of Finance issued the guidance on Comprehensive Agricultural Development, supporting Agricultural characteristic Industries and promoting the Development of Agricultural industrialization, encouraging the development of "Internet + Agriculture" and actively supporting the construction of e-commerce platform for advantageous characteristic agricultural products. On November 23, the State Council released the guidance on giving full play to the leading role of new consumption and speeding up the cultivation of new supply and new power, expressing support for all kinds of social capital to participate in the construction of agriculture-related e-commerce platform. promote the combination of offline industrial development platform and online e-commerce trading platform.