A drone photo shows harvesters reaping wheat in the fields in Pantang Village of Lizhuang Town, Shangqiu City, central China's Henan Province, June 4, 2025. (Photo by Li Heng/Xinhua)

China is wrapping up its 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) and set to enter the next five-year development period. Over the past five years, China's countryside has become more vibrant and prosperous, with grain production setting a new record, agricultural modernization making progress and rural communities becoming more livable.

Join us on a visual journey to witness the dynamic transformations unfolding across China's vast countryside in 2025.

TECHNOLOGY RESHAPING AGRICULTURE

China is reshaping its agriculture with technological innovations that help ensure the country's food security and lay the groundwork for rural revitalization. Smart agriculture is flourishing across China with AI, low-altitude technology, and information technology being progressively integrated into farming and grain processing.

A staff member maintains the autonomous seeding intelligent system at Youyi Farm Co., Ltd. under Beidahuang Group in Shuangyashan City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 19, 2025. (Xinhua/Wang Song)

A technician checks the growth of seedlings at an intelligent seedling nursery base in Shuangxing Village of Yongchuan District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, March 19, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

An aerial drone photo taken on July 2, 2025 shows smart glass greenhouses at a modern agricultural industrial park in Fuyuan City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)

A drone photo taken on March 14, 2025 shows a potato seeding machine loaded with Beidou navigation system working in a field in Liuwang Town, Qingdao City of east China's Shandong Province. (Photo by Zhang Jingang/Xinhua)

Farmers operate a drone to fertilize a wheat field in Hezhuang Village, Jurong City of east China's Jiangsu Province, March 14, 2025. (Photo by Zhong Xueman/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on May 7, 2025 shows a self-propelled irrigation machine operating in a wheat field in Nanhan Village of Wenxian County, Jiaozuo City, central China's Henan Province. (Photo by Xu Hongxing/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 6, 2025 shows a farmer operating a vehicle to spray pesticides in a rice field in Hai'an City, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Zhai Huiyong/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo shows harvesters working at a soybean field of a farming company under Beidahuang Group in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Sept. 29, 2025. (Photo by Lu Wenxiang/Xinhua)

A cotton picker operates in a field in Xayar County of Aksu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Jia Zhao)

A harvester works in a highland barley field in Lhunzhub County, in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Sept. 23, 2025. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)