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CCTV.com reports (Xinwen Lianbo): Autumn grain accounts for approximately three-quarters of annual grain output. The latest agricultural monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs shows that more than 90% of China's autumn grain has been harvested and a bumper harvest is assured.

This year, China stepped up the new round of its initiative to increase grain production capacity by 100 billion jin. For the first time, it launched a program in 20 cities to advance large-area yield increases across their entire jurisdictions, while the number of counties participating on a whole-jurisdiction basis increased from 702 to 1,000, promoting balanced production increases across a wider area. In Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, experts assessed yields in a 13.54 million-mu demonstration area for yield improvement. Of this, 4.0699 million mu of fields reached the “tonne-of-grain fields” standard, representing the country's best level of large-area yield improvement.

For this year's “three autumn” operations, China deployed more than 30 million units or sets of agricultural machinery. A number of large, high-end intelligent agricultural machines were put into frontline use, substantially improving the efficiency of mechanized harvesting and the quality of operations. In Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, a high-capacity combine harvester with a feed rate of 18 kilograms per second was put into use for the first time, harvesting 1 mu in less than 3 minutes.

This year, China has steadily advanced the construction and upgrading of more than 74 million mu of high-standard farmland. It has also accelerated the promotion and use of improved varieties, including corn suited to dense planting and mechanical harvesting, high-yield, high-oil soybeans, and high-quality rice with strong resistance to insects, diseases, and adverse conditions, improving efficiency through the integration of good farmland, quality seeds, effective machinery, and sound methods.