China and ASEAN hope to carry out in-depth digital and intelligent cooperation in the agricultural field

中新社郑州10月30日电 (记者 王宇)2026中国(河南)—东盟粮农合作发展大会30日在河南郑州启幕，中国与东盟国家与会代表围绕粮农合作数智化展开深入交流。

With the theme of "Integrating ASEAN with Digital Intelligence and Green Chain to Build Food Security", this conference was co-sponsored by the China-ASEAN Center and the Henan Provincial Government.

Awang Bimi, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Malaysian Parliament, said that ASEAN and China have complementary resource endowments and advantages. The two sides can jointly create a more efficient agricultural value chain and work together on agricultural technologies such as smart irrigation, precise weather forecasting, and digital traceability to help farmers increase production capacity, reduce losses, and directly connect with purchasers.

ASEAN Secretary-General Gao Jinhong said in his speech that digitalization is becoming a new tool for the food system to meet challenges. ASEAN looks forward to working with China to explore solutions that can be promoted on a large scale in areas such as artificial intelligence, digital platforms, remote sensing technology, and precision agriculture.

“Digital intelligence is the only way for agricultural development.” Yathun Win, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation of Myanmar, said that agricultural digitalization is both forward-looking and urgent. ASEAN and China can rely on joint scientific research and technology exchanges to improve the skills of agricultural practitioners and jointly lead this digital transformation.

ASEAN is an important rice and tropical cash crop producing area in the world, and meteorological disasters frequently impact agricultural production.

When introducing China's meteorological intelligent early warning program "Mazu", the deputy director of the National Meteorological Center said that China and ASEAN countries are both located in the monsoon climate zone. It is hoped that the two sides will strengthen data sharing in the future around key regional disaster risks and agricultural production needs, and jointly build long-term early warning services.