The added value of core industries has maintained an average annual growth rate of more than 25 percent between 2014 and 2021.From January to August, the output value of digital manufacturing above designated size increased by 8.75 percent year-on-year.

To better promote the construction of the Wuzhen Internet Innovation and Development Pilot Zone, Tongxiang cooperated with Tsinghua University and the Yangtze Delta Region Institute of Tsinghua University in Zhejiang to establish the Wuzhen Laboratory, which came into operation in July 2021. Up to now, the total number of scientific research teams in Wuzhen Laboratory has reached 82, and the R&D personnel with master's and doctoral degrees and senior titles account for more than 83 percent.

Furthermore, huge steps have been taken to promote the deep integration between the internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and the agricultural economy, and make the manufacturing, agriculture, and service sectors more digitalized, smart and internet-powered.

The online agricultural service platform has been applied to leading agricultural entrepreneurs and farmers to cooperate with each other so that farmers can make online reservations for services such as agricultural machinery operation, escrow, and seeding on their phones.

The online agricultural service platform also has a wide range of application scenarios in rural farms. Tongxiang took the lead in Zhejiang in creating a digital development model for the entire industry chain from the farm to the dining table, promoting the application of technologies such as 5G intelligent sensing and robots to ensure the efficient and high-quality development of livestock industries.

So far, one national-level agricultural and rural informatization demonstration base, two provincial-level future farms, six provincial-level digital agricultural factories, and 25 digital agricultural application demonstration bases have been built in Tongxiang, promoting the application of digital technologies in rural areas and the modernization of agriculture.

Fang Xiaoying contributed to this story.