China has launched a pilot program to replace farmers with robots, putting millions of people at risk of losing their jobs. The seven-year pilot, which is running in Jiangsu Province, features unmanned tractors, pesticide applicators, and rice transplanters. These technologies are not yet widely used in China. Millions of unproductive, polluting farms in China could be modernized through the program. （China is moving ahead with a huge robot farming pilot, by Business Insider）
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Innovation and intelligence agricultural equipment are of great importance in the course of modernization of agriculture. At the same time, we need to accelerate the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces.
（Editor Li Xingyi）
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