Xu Zhenyu： the Leader of Agricultural Internet of Things

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CCTV News:Xu Zhenyu, a dreamer of intelligent agriculture, is a dreamer who dares to explore. In 28 years, he has grown from an ordinary student to a "new star" in the field of Internet of Things in China. As the leader of smart agriculture in China, Xu Zhenyu was cordially received and highly praised by Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and other party and state leaders. Xu Zhenyu hopes to bring China’s agriculture to a higher and faster development path through the agricultural Internet of Things and help China realize its dream of becoming a strong agricultural country.

Let traditional agriculture plug in the wings of science and technology

Born into an out-and-out peasant family, Xu Zhenyu has personally experienced the field work facing the loess and facing the sky, and has a deep understanding of the hardships of agricultural work of his parents. With a dream of "making farming easier", Xu Zhenyu resigned from the government when her career was smooth and smooth, and established the first high-tech enterprise specializing in agricultural Internet of Things technology in China.

　China is a big agricultural country, but it is not a strong agricultural country. With five thousand years of farming culture and weak industrial base, the development speed of agriculture in China lags far behind the development of modern industry and service industry. The agricultural Internet of Things is a new agricultural management technology, which applies science to agricultural production. It mainly uses communication technologies such as local network or Internet to connect sensors, controllers, machines, people and things in a new way, forming the connection between people and things, things and things, and realizing informationization, remote management and control and intelligence.

Without leaving home, you can master the temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, light and other data in the vegetable greenhouse with a click of a mouse or a swipe of a smart phone, and you can also automatically water the vegetables and ventilate the greenhouse … … The intelligent agricultural technology of Xu Zhenyu’s team not only focuses on reducing the intensity of agricultural labor, but also knows what and how much crops are missing through sensors, making the delivery of agricultural inputs more accurate. "This kind of intelligent agricultural technology that you can eat as much as you want, neither hungry nor wasted, can save 30-40% of production materials, reduce costs and reduce environmental pollution." Xu Zhenyu’s team has also established a huge expert system to extract crop data through sensors all over the farmland. Once the disease is found, it will be consulted by agricultural experts remotely.

Building a "Smart Three-Agriculture Ecological Circle"

Because "Agricultural Internet of Things" is a new industry, in order to popularize the knowledge of agricultural Internet of Things and raise the awareness of all walks of life on the advanced technology of agricultural Internet of Things, Xu Zhenyu actively ran around, introduced agricultural technologies and development concepts from Israel, the European Union, the United States and other countries, and organized relevant government departments and industry units to promote and exchange knowledge for many times. On the basis of summarizing the operation experience of hundreds of agricultural Internet of Things application projects, Xu Zhenyu constructed a four-dimensional "smart agriculture" service model of "government affairs+agricultural affairs+business+think tank" and the whole industry chain. Now it covers nearly half of China, exploring a feasible way of "Agricultural Internet of Things".

"Now you must say what you say ‘ Internet plus & rsquo; Many industries are actively integrating with the Internet, but in my opinion, the Internet should not simply+agriculture, but ‘ Agriculture, countryside and farmers ’ The problem is organically combined. " Xu Zhenyu’s "smart agriculture, countryside and farmers ecological circle" turned smart agriculture into a brand-new model. They built an internet agricultural town in Hainan, organically combining agriculture, rural areas and farmers. Xu Zhenyu said, "We must ensure that the Internet is introduced into the village, so that rural e-commerce is not only about industrial products and daily necessities going to the countryside, but also about agricultural materials going to the countryside efficiently and agricultural products entering the city effectively, which is a good recommendation for rural leisure tours. At the same time, we also combine rural finance such as loans, insurance, investment and financing to effectively alleviate the problems of financing difficulties, expensive financing and slow lending in agriculture, which we call ‘ Internet+agriculture+tourism+finance ’ 。” Xu Zhenyu is full of confidence. "We are just exploring the organic unity of farmers’ knowledge, rural vitality and agricultural science and technology. This is our basic attempt."

"I will always be a farmer’s child."

"I insist on doing agriculture, because I am from the countryside and will always be a farmer’s child." At present, Xu Zhenyu has become one of the national and international smart agriculture standards setters. The establishment of the Key Laboratory of Agricultural Internet of Things Technology Integration and Application of the Ministry of Agriculture has created a precedent for the key laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture to settle in private enterprises. Premier Li Keqiang came to Xu Zhenyu’s experimental base and gave affirmation and encouragement to their exploration in the field of smart agriculture.

Xu Zhenyu and his company have successively won the honors of "China Smart Agriculture Applied Technology Innovation Award", "Top Ten Brand Figures of Scientific and Technological Innovation" and "Outstanding Contribution Unit of Agricultural Informatization in 2011". In 2016, he was selected as "CCTV’s annual introduction of three rural figures".

Dreams are the flag of those who dare to build dreams. Xu Zhenyu led his team to help the development of agriculture in China with his own practical actions. Xu Zhenyu and his partners believe that one day, China’s 5,000-year-old agriculture will take on a new look, and the diet and quality of life of 1.3 billion Chinese will be completely changed. Every effort and effort they make will bring the dream of "rich peasants and powerful countries" closer to the goal.