Agriculture is the foundation for the development of human society and economic activities. The driving force for the improvement of the agricultural industry comes from the development and application of cutting-edge technologies.
The current rapid development of human civilization and technology has brought unprecedented challenges and opportunities to the agricultural industry. To meet the challenge, the world's leading organizations have made it a top developmental priority to explore how agriculture can become smarter and more digital.
As China's largest platform for agriculture, Pinduoduo has made agriculture the centerpiece of our growth strategy. Given our unique position connecting over 16 million farmers directly to our over 800 million users, we focus on investing and innovating along all stages of the agricultural value chain to digitize and improve it.
In 2020, Pinduoduo held the inaugural Smart Agriculture Competition, for which young scientists and top growers were gathered in Yunnan compete on strawberry planting with traditional practices and AI technology. In the second Smart Agriculture Competition held in 2021, leveraging growing, computer and other interdisciplinary technologies, top agricultural research teams from around the world have harvested high yield prime cherry tomato while abiding sustainable growing practices. The fruits beard from the past two competitions are verified stamps of the effective enablement from digital technology to agriculture, and the promising outlook for smart agriculture.
In 2022, Pinduoduo collaborated with Bright Seedbase Modern Seed Industry Innovation District of Bright Food (Group) Co., Ltd., which is built in Chongming and focuses on building a diversified agricultural ecosystem, including seed sources, intelligence, technology, creativity, branding, and boutique agriculture. They utilized the opportunity of the competition to promote resource aggregation, solve industry problems, promote the development of smart agriculture, and enhance China's agricultural competitiveness.
This year, Pinduoduo join hands with Bright Flower Town Exhibition, the operator of Bright Seedbase Modern Seed Industry Innovation District, to continue the 2024 Bright Duoduo Vertical Agriculture Challenge and the 4th "Smart Agriculture Competition", continuing the theme of vertical agriculture challenge and AI planting. This competition will explore the independent design and construction of container plant factories, and carry out a crop planting competition in a fully artificial light environment controlled container plant factory.And the aim of this competition is to highlight intelligent container plant factory solutions that are scientifically reasonable in design, fast and convenient in construction, energy-saving and efficient in planting, and can be replicated and promoted.