The 2025 Modern Agriculture AI Integration Innovation Ecosystem Conference Successfully Held, Yunhe Intelligence’s Yuan Bingqiang Shares Experience in Building Unmanned Farms

On April 24, 2025, the “2025 Modern Agriculture AI Integration Innovation Ecosystem Conference,” themed “Scenario-Driven · Intelligent Cultivation for the Future,” was grandly held in Hangzhou. Jointly organized by the Zhejiang Modern Agriculture Promotion Association and China Telecom Zhejiang Branch, the conference attracted nearly 200 experts, government representatives, and industry leaders from within and outside the province to deeply explore new pathways for AI integration into modern agriculture and to drive intelligent agricultural transformation and upgrading.

Hangzhou Yunhe Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd., as a leading enterprise in the field of digital agriculture, was invited to participate. Yuan Bingqiang, the General Manager, joined the roundtable forum to share the company’s practical experience and profound insights on the theme of “Unmanned Farm Equipment Collaboration and Cost Efficiency.”

Yuan Bingqiang stated that Yunhe Intelligence focuses on the research and development of digital agricultural technologies, with its business concentrating on smart greenhouses, intelligent seedling factories, digital agricultural factories, and unmanned farms. The company is committed to empowering the entire agricultural production process with AI and robotics technologies. Since 2020, Yunhe Intelligence has been actively exploring unmanned farm construction and has successfully built several demonstration projects, such as the Jiaxing ShiHe Unmanned Farm, accumulating rich experience in construction and operation.

During the roundtable, Yuan highlighted that the core challenge of unmanned farms lies in the integration of agricultural machinery and agronomy. He shared practical cases showing how Yunhe Intelligence overcame the issues of incompatibility and communication delays among multi-brand agricultural machines during collaborative operations. Through the independently developed farm management system and agricultural machinery dispatching platform, the company achieved unified management and intelligent scheduling of operational processes. Moreover, he emphasized that unmanned farm construction must be planned from the source—from ridging and sowing to harvesting—ensuring “machines on the same track and paths in the same rut,” thereby truly enhancing operational efficiency.

Yuan also candidly acknowledged that the initial investment for unmanned farms is relatively high, with the price of intelligent agricultural equipment being three to five times that of traditional machinery. However, in the long term, by applying digital twin technology for refined water and fertilizer management and unmanned machine operations, significant savings in labor and material costs can be achieved. Taking the Jiaxing ShiHe Farm as an example, the unmanned farm model improved the farm’s efficiency by about 30% and significantly reduced labor intensity, greatly improving the working environment for agricultural workers.

Discussing industry prospects, he noted that unmanned farms represent the future development direction of agriculture but challenges such as high costs, talent shortages, and deep integration of machinery and agronomy still need to be overcome. Yunhe Intelligence is currently actively promoting cooperation with outstanding agricultural enterprises to jointly build satellite farms, accelerating the intelligent transformation of more farms through experience replication and technology sharing.

This conference provided new ideas and models for the intelligent transformation of modern agriculture in Zhejiang and across China. Looking forward, Yunhe Intelligence will continue to uphold the concept of innovation-driven and scenario-based applications, steadily advancing the modernization and intelligent development of agriculture, and contributing to rural revitalization and high-quality agricultural growth.