The government of the People's Republic of China and the government of the Kingdom of Thailand on Saturday issued a joint statement on advancing the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and building a China-Thailand community with a shared future for enhanced stability, prosperity, and sustainability through a forward-looking and people-centered vision.
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has concluded an official visit to China. The visit marked the start of the 50th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, under the theme of "The Golden Jubilee of China-Thailand Friendship."
In the statement, both sides reaffirmed that China and Thailand are close neighbors, trusted partners and committed to mutual respect, assistance and a shared vision for the future. They pledged to continue promoting cooperation on economic resilience, high-quality development, clean energy, the digital economy and green development.
Both countries will expedite Phase 1 of the China-Thailand high-speed railway and work toward finalizing the cooperation mode to launch Phase 2 at an early date. As co-chairs of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, China and Thailand also agreed to strengthen efforts to combat trans-boundary crimes, including human trafficking, online scams, drug trafficking and illegal online gambling.
China, Thailand issue joint statement on advancing comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership
Smart, terrain-adaptive harvesters are helping farmers in Bijie City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, make the most of the fine weather to bring in crops in its summer wheat harvest.
At a wheat farming base in Pingzhai Town of Zhijin County, several combine harvesters are busy working in the golden fields.
"We used to get in crops manually. It often rains in the wheat harvesting season, which would leave wheat rotten in the field, mildewed and sprouting. With mechanized harvesting, we've become more efficient. After it is harvested, the wheat can be quickly dried, guaranteeing the wheat quality," said Wang Jun, head of the wheat farming base.
This year, Bijie has widely introduced agricultural machinery services across all stages of summer grain production, from plowing, planting, managing to harvesting. To tackle the mountainous terrains, local operators have fine-tuned their equipment mix and promote small to medium-sized harvesters, which effectively improved the harvest efficiency.
"We're using tracked combine harvesters, which are advantageous in flexibility, as they turn easily in our hilly areas in Guizhou. With three machines, we can harvest about 10 hectares of wheat a day," said Peng Jian, head of an agricultural machinery service cooperative in Bijie's county-level city of Qianxi.
Bijie is set to harvest over 16,600 hectares of wheat this summer. Local authorities have implemented various subsidy policies for agricultural machinery while streamlining service links of equipment dispatch, maintenance, and technical support. The goal is to wrap up the summer wheat harvest by the end of May.
High-tech farming boosts summer harvest in Guizhou
