中国的人口居世界第一，农业人口也是如此。虽然水资源短缺，可耕地仅占世界7%，但是中国却负担着世界上四分之一的人口。与此同时，中国必须适应进入世贸带来的挑战。基于以上因素，中国应当大力依靠科学技术，加快农业产业化与现代化的步伐。农业高科技研究主要包括生物工程、信息以及新材料新装备工程领域内的高科技。
China, with the largest population in the world, also ranks first in agricultural population. In spite of shortages of water and just 7 percent of the world's arable land, China has to feed a quarter of the world's population. At the same time, it has to adapt to the challenges of impending WTO membership. Given these circumstances, China must vigorously accelerate the industrialization and modernization of agriculture by relying on science and technology. Agricultural high-tech research primarily involves new technologies in the fields of bioengineering, information, and new materials and facility engineering.
生物工程技术主要包括基因工程、作物分子示踪、动物克隆以及转基因技术。中国的基因工程研究起步于二十世纪八十年代初，到1996年底，所研究的转基因植物种类总数达到47个，涉及103种基因。通过十年的努力，中国在众多领域都达到或超过了国际先进水平。
Agricultural bioengineering mainly includes genetic engineering, molecular labeling of crops, cloning of animals and transgenetic technology. Agricultural genetic engineering research in China began in the early 1980s and by the end of 1996; the number of species of transgenetic plants under research totaled 47, involving 103 genes. Through 10 years of effort, China has equaled or surpassed the international advanced levels in many fields.
中国的智能型农业信息技术始于二十世纪八十年代。信息技术在农业生产及管理方面扮演着重要角色，并极大促进了计算机在农业领域的广泛应用。在中国，农业信息技术已在小麦、水稻、棉花、玉米、油菜、烟草、柑桔、甘蔗、西红柿等作物的土地管理、施肥、病虫害防治方面得到大力推广。另一项重大突破是农业遥感技术，其研究成果使得农业宏观决策更为科学。新技术的使用有效提高了农作物产量估计的准确度及可靠性。与此同时，遥感技术也广泛应用于农业资源的探寻。由于中国土地广阔，农业资源多样，遥感技术自引进以来已成为农业资源探寻的重要技术手段之一。
In the 1980s, China began research and the application of intelligent agricultural information technology. Information technology has played a prominent role in agricultural production and management, greatly accelerating the extensive application of computers in agriculture. In China, agricultural information technology has developed considerably regarding field management, fertilization, and disease and pest prevention and treatment for such crops as wheat, rice, cotton, corn, rape, tobacco, oranges, sugarcane and tomatoes. Another key break-through is the agricultural remote-sensing undertakings, the research results of which have helped to make agricultural macro-decision making more scientific. The application of new technologies has effectively improved the accuracy and reliability of crop output estimates. Remote-sensing technology also has been extensively used in surveying agricultural resources. As China is a vast country with numerous kinds of agricultural resources, remote-sensing technology has becomes one of the main technological resources surveying since it was introduced.
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