Zhang Taolin, Vice Minister of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture, emphasized that at present and in the future, the competent departments of agricultural mechanization at all levels should conscientiously implement the spirit of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Party, fully implement the open subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery within the scope of subsidies, and guide and promote agricultural mechanization in the new era. The transformation and upgrading will help to implement the strategy of rural revitalization.

Zhang Taolin pointed out that the purchase subsidy of agricultural machinery is the most direct and main means to promote the development of agricultural mechanization. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the CPC, the central government has allocated 111.6 billion yuan in subsidized funds for the purchase of agricultural machinery, and subsidized the purchase of more than 18.2 million sets of various types of agricultural machinery and tools, which has achieved remarkable results in benefiting farmers and assisting workers at one stroke. China has become the largest country in the manufacture and use of agricultural machinery. Agriculture has shifted from relying mainly on human and animal power to relying mainly on mechanical power and entered a new stage dominated by mechanization.

Zhang Taolin demanded that all localities should highlight strategic priorities and scientifically determine the scope of subsidies; highlight green ecological orientation and vigorously promote the green development of agriculture; highlight guidance and support for scientific and technological innovation of agricultural machinery and promote structural reform of agricultural supply side; highlight inclusive sharing, and constantly enhance the sense of affordability of farmers'subsidies; highlight efficiency and convenience. We will continue to improve public and social satisfaction and create a new situation for the implementation of the subsidy policy for the purchase of agricultural machinery.