China News Service, Yangling, Shaanxi, October 29 (Reporters Li Yifan and Yang Yingqi) On October 29, the 33rd China Yangling Agricultural High-tech Achievements Expo and the 2026 SCO Agricultural Expo came to an end in Yangling, Shaanxi.
During the five-day conference, more than 2,200 agricultural research institutes and agricultural enterprises from all over the world participated in the exhibition. The exhibition area reached 140,000 square meters, displaying at a high level 11,000 latest scientific and technological achievements and advanced applicable technologies at home and abroad in core provenances, water-saving agriculture, agricultural machinery and equipment, digital and intelligent agriculture, etc. The total investment in the signed projects reached 32.93 billion yuan, attracting 1.22 million visitors.
It is reported that this exhibition will take the cultivation and development of new agricultural productivity as its theme, and more than 60 high-level dialogues, authoritative releases, and industry promotion activities will be held successively to discuss major issues such as global food security, sustainable agricultural development in arid areas, and green agricultural transformation. At the same time, the exhibition system of "indoor exhibitions, field exhibitions, online exhibitions, and overseas exhibitions" has been deepened and expanded. More than 30 special exhibitions such as dry area seed industry, dry farming and water saving, smart agricultural machinery, and bio-manufacturing, as well as supporting activities such as the Ruikang Global Agricultural Robot Application Competition, will focus on displaying a batch of scientific and technological agriculture, green agriculture, quality agriculture, and brand agricultural innovative scientific and technological achievements integrating good fields, good seeds, good opportunities, and good methods.
During the exhibition, a series of high-level activities such as the SCO Modern Agricultural Development Roundtable, the SCO Agricultural Cooperation and Development Conference, the Ministerial Seminar on Modern Agricultural Economic Management in Developing Countries, and the China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Exchange and Matchmaking Meeting were also successfully held. The "SCO Agricultural Base's Initiative on Strengthening Agricultural Water-Saving Technology Cooperation in the SCO Region" was released. Many domestic agricultural enterprises and agriculture-related universities signed cooperation agreements with agricultural technology colleges and institutions in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other countries.
Focusing on agricultural science and technology cooperation, the construction of an efficient trade system, green agriculture, and mutual recognition of agricultural product standards, China-Brazil agricultural science and technology exchange activities, a dairy sheep industry development conference, and Shaanxi modern agriculture foreign cooperation docking and other activities were held, forming more than 180 SCO agricultural cooperation intentions, laying a solid foundation for long-term industrial collaboration, technical training, and joint construction of demonstration parks. Overseas exhibitions have been further expanded and have been held in six countries including Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Russia, promoting Chinese agricultural technologies, standards and products to go overseas.
In addition, this exhibition focuses on cultivating and strengthening industries that enrich the people in counties. Hundreds of agricultural experts received 12,000 people for consultation services on site and answered more than 21,000 consultation questions offline and online. The first academic exchange meeting on innovation and high-quality development of peony industry and academic exchange meeting on strawberry industry development were held for the first time to help rural specialty industries integrate into the modern agricultural industry chain.
Rural industry leaders and new farmers from all over the country connect resources, learn technologies, and negotiate orders at the exhibition. They use the exhibition traffic to drive local planting and agricultural product processing, and transform the exhibition dividends into stable income increases for the people.
