Agriculture is a fundamental sector, and China's modernization cannot be achieved without agricultural modernization. Vitalization of agriculture should rely on science and technology as well as talent, he said.

With help from national agricultural internet of things demonstration projects, Qixing has initiated big data collection and collation to promote the entire process of intelligent rice planting.

"Qixing is the first farm in the Beidahuang Group to use the platform. Digital agricultural services will make production more intelligent and reduce the production and market risks for family farms," Han Tianjia, the group's deputy director, said.

"We have 43,800 agricultural machines, and the agricultural mechanization rate has reached 99 percent. Rice production has been fully mechanized."