Agricultural machinery refers to various types of machinery used in crop planting and animal husbandry production processes, as well as in the initial processing and handling of agricultural and livestock products. Agricultural machinery includes agricultural power machinery, farmland construction machinery, soil tillage machinery, planting and fertilization machinery, plant protection machinery, farmland drainage and irrigation machinery, crop harvesting machinery, agricultural product processing machinery, animal husbandry machinery, and agricultural transportation machinery.

        Broadly speaking, agricultural machinery also includes forestry machinery, fishery machinery, and rural sideline machinery such as sericulture, beekeeping, and edible mushroom cultivation. Agricultural machinery is a relative concept, referring to the general term for all machinery used in agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, and fisheries. Agricultural machinery belongs to the category of agricultural machinery. Promoting the use of agricultural machinery is called agricultural mechanization.

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        In 2011, the comprehensive level of agricultural machinery in the three stages of cultivation and harvest in China reached 54.5%, setting a new historical high. In 2011, under the new statistical caliber (the sales revenue standard for enterprises above designated size was adjusted from 5 million yuan to 20 million yuan), China's agricultural machinery manufacturing industry achieved a total industrial output value of 284.635 billion yuan.

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        In order to enhance the modernization level of agriculture in our country, government agencies have introduced a series of policy measures to improve the level of agricultural mechanization. Due to the increasing emphasis on agriculture by the government, the level of agricultural mechanization in China has also become a focus of government attention. In order to promote the development of agriculture in China, improve the level of agricultural mechanization, and achieve the goal of modernization of agriculture, the country has formulated a series of long-term development plans to promote the development of agriculture and the agricultural machinery industry.

        In 2012, the agricultural machinery industry achieved a sales revenue of 330.997 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.96%; In 2013, enterprises above designated size in the national agricultural machinery industry achieved sales revenue of 389.27 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.61%.

        The goal proposed in the "Development Plan for Agricultural Machinery Industry (2011-2015)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in March 2011 is that by 2015, the total value of agricultural machinery industry will reach 400 billion yuan, which means that the industry scale will increase by at least 40%. The Plan proposes that by 2015, the comprehensive mechanization level of cultivation and harvesting should reach over 60%. This goal is a step forward from the previously proposed 55%. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, the comprehensive mechanization level of agriculture and harvesting in China will move forward from a new starting point of over 50%, with a development range between 50% and 64%, and an average annual increase of about 2.5 percentage points.

        In 2012, the "No.1 Central Document" for the first time made a comprehensive deployment of agricultural science and technology, emphasizing "putting agricultural science and technology in a more prominent position" and "accelerating agricultural mechanization".