On May 8th, 2019, the Launching Ceremony of the Robotic Operations in Agriculture took place in Hongwei Farm of Jiansanjiang branch company in Heilongjiang Province. Prof. Yan Xiaohong, President of JSU，Wu Chundu, Vice President of JSU，leaders from Science and Technology Department, School of Agricultural Equipment Engineering and School of Electrical & Information Engineering attended the ceremony. Prof. Yan Xiaohong gave a speech and said Jiangsu University was born, is prosperous today and will be stronger in the future because of Agriculture Engineering. Mao Zedong, founder of R. P. China, once stated that “The fundamental way out of Agriculture lies in mechanization”. Xi Jinping’s mission is “we should promote agricultural mechanization, and give agricultural modernization the wings of science and technology”.
After the launch ceremony, our university partook in the demonstration of Robotic Models with 11 other agricultural machinery teams from Zhonglian Heavy Machinery, Fengjiang Intelligent, Xingtu Navigation, Nongfu Machinery, Zhongxing Machinery and other famous domestic universities and enterprises. They demonstrated Robotic operations of 3 types of machines, namely: Robotic lug and beating grader, Robotic rice trans planter and Robotic plant protection machine. It has been made clear that in China the key to research and breakthrough strategies in agriculture lies in its mechanization and modernization.
