The year 2026 marks the beginning of the “fifty-fifty-fifty” and the crucial year for harbin to create a new and comprehensive revitalization in quality development. Since 16 april, the harbin city council's network office and the yangtze network's heilong river channel have jointly launched a series of media reports entitled “hingled ice city towards the new world” that provide an overview of how harbin ice city offers the first sense of responsibility for serving the country's food security, building new highlands to the north, and developing new quality productivity。
Let's follow journalists' pens and lenses to witness the emergence of a new vision and a new journey towards a new and fully revitalized landscape in the high-quality development of the city of harbin。
The spring wind is over the banks of the pineflower river, and the land of the ice city is full of life。
In the vast black land of harbin, from the fine breeds chosen by smart factories to the guacamole in smart greenhouses, from the prosperity of the rural agroblogging complex to the practice of integrated grass-roots governance, from the city to the village, a new painting of modern agriculture, which is mixed between urban and rural areas and is mutually reinforcing, is being carried out to sing a new chapter in the development of modern farming in harbin。
Harbin spring farming view
Plantation breakout: autonomous varieties build up high-yield chassis
Harbin, the country's main commodity food production base, has stabilized over 30 million acres throughout the city and has maintained a combined production capacity of over 30 billion pounds. In harbin city, 100 per cent coverage of good crop varieties is achieved, and 176 products are authorized for “black earth excellence”, the highest in the province。
Seeds are the “chips” of agriculture and concern the “big people” of food security. During the spring tillage season, the workshop of the lews industries limited in harbin city was particularly busy。
Esmeralda lab
In the sprouts laboratory, tang yong-ryung, the manager of the yigon quality inspection department, told journalists that samples taken from the workshop were subject to constant and warmer testing to ensure that the product was sprouts above 95 per cent。
Corn seedlings in the sprouts lab
Precision is a core element of quality development in the beneficiary farming industry. The harbin city technological innovation demonstration enterprise, a leading agricultural industrialist company in heilongjiang province, has developed a large number of high-quality varieties in the fields of maize, soybeans and rice staple crops, and has developed a matrix of autonomous intellectual property varieties. To date, the beneficiary farming industry has 65 autonomous intellectual property crop varieties。
“in 2025, the expansion of the benevolent agricultural industry in the northern pre-maturity zone exceeded 5 million acres and is expected to increase by more than 15 per cent by 2026. The fourth and fifth temperate bands in the province of heilongjiang have been evaluated as the country's first known maize species, and the fourth and fifth main temperate species, such as yinoyu 12, 14 and 18, have been evaluated. Zhu yong, deputy general manager of the wein agriculture industry, harbin city, said that many factors contributed to higher crop yields, but the highest rate of good seed contribution. Businesses are based in harbin, and the future will allow for a more accurate breeding of varieties through a combination of fertility and conventional breeding, which will better serve the single production of food in harbin and even the heilong river.”
Seed trucks for the weingrove industry (jonggwan reporter chen xiaochun)
At the beginning of 2026, a total of seven autonomously cultivated varieties from the harbin city academy of agricultural sciences were successfully selected in heilongjiang province for the 2026 quality and efficient crop crop cultivation scheme, covering rice, fresh-food maize and a variety of vegetables, with harakis 2022 and harkim5 rated as the country's top 10。
Hag-jae 5 fresh corn
Heilongjiang province's tibetan biotechnologies development co. Ltd. Is the result conversion company of hathren 2022 and hagtung 5, with an area of over 30,000 acres this year. “hachon 2022 and harki no. 5 are the high-quality seeds of harbin's own production, which, after two years of market expansion, have been recognized by large growers in the maize-producing areas.” according to zhidong, the general manager of the company, “heilongjiang province is the main production area of maize, which is of the best quality because of the unparalleled environment such as black land. In the future, high-quality fresh maize varieties will dominate the market.”
In addition, the “hapi rice” series is suitable for the first and second warming zone, with an area of about 10 million acres. In recent years, the results of this series of good seed research have been converted into more than tens of millions of yuan, and the expansion of cultivation has contributed to an increase in agricultural production of about 1 billion yuan。
Greens and prosperity: three times in a field
By the end of 2025, the area certified for green organic food in the city of harbin had exceeded 11. 38 million acres and was at the top of the national sub-provincial cities. The total number of product certifications exceeded 740, including 741 green foods, 22 organic agricultural products, etc., and the rate of product check-ups remained stable at over 99. 8 per cent. The public brand value of the harbin rice region has remained stable at over $100 billion。
In recent years, harbin has advanced the integration of agricultural, cultural and tourism resources, especially in a delicate combination of “cold and snow” and “green and green”, which has created new economic growth points。
The westmy estate wheat field
The sisemi estate, built by the bi-city farmer's cooperative in harbin city, has just planted wheat seeds lying quietly in the soil waiting to germinate. According to the chairman of the cooperative council, xiao guo liang, the production model of the simi estate is a spring-planted wheat and a summer and autumn-based cabbage, in addition to the development of customized agricultural and pick-up projects for the citizens of harbin. Customized agriculture alone, with an annual income of more than $3 million and wheat and cabbage varieties, has increased not only land utilization but also output by about 30 per cent。
It's an ancient eco-striped flour
In harbin city, wheat grown by the bi-city farmers ' cooperative, which was processed with traditional quarries, retained the nutrient content of wheat, adding value to it once again. "silver flour is well sold online, buybacks are high, and everyone who's eaten has a taste for the pasta."。
Ricefield lobster harvest
Since 2023, in cooperation with the harbin agricultural academy of sciences, the huai valley (heilong river) healthy food company ltd., with its headquarters in harbin city, has been building an eco-cycling agricultural system with a “one water, one field and two harvests” as its core model。
“in 2025, the company began the acquisition and sale of cold-field lobster, which led to the overall development of the cold-field lobster in heilongjiang province, and resolved the marketing difficulties of the cold-land lobster breeders by establishing a partnership with over 50 shrimp farmers, with an increase of 40,000 to 50,000 yuan per shrimp farmer.” according to nilbin, general manager of health foods co. Ltd. In guizhou (heilong river)。
A vegetable shed for the quasi corn grower
In the same vein, a cooperative for the professional cultivation of valong maize in the northern pine district of harbin city, in cooperation with the harbin city academy of agricultural sciences, raised 3 million crayfish in rice fields. The cooperative director, chen hua, explained that the shrimp farming model not only improved the resilience of rice and lobster, but also reduced the use of pesticides and fertilizers and further reduced agricultural pollution. And shrimp rice from rice fields smells uniquely and is sweeter and softer. This method of cultivation not only increases soil health, but also achieves a win-win rice shrimp growth。
“in addition to the positive innovations in agriculture, cooperatives have also carried out activities such as rice field shrimp tourism and gardening, so that tourists can actually feel the joy of farming.” chen hua says。
Tourist from the swan lake estate
In the recent past, on short-term leave, nearly 500 visitors were received on the day of the swan lake estate in the new rural village of new farmer township, harbin city. "it's interesting to take the kids and experience picking and buy some organic vegetables." according to citizen wu chun wai, driving from downtown。
According to zi xiao gwang, the head of the reception at the swan lake estate in harbin city, the estate is a modern agricultural park where strawberry organic vegetables are collected, family meetings are held, and huts are camped together. It attracts many citizens for weekends and holidays。
The swan lake manor camp
Harbin's broad vision of “green agriculture + agro-blogging” is rooted in its solid industrial base and successful innovation practices. Harbin's organic integration of agricultural, ecological and cultural resources has increased the value added of agricultural products and has given strong impetus to rural revitalization and high-quality regional economic development。
Digital empowerment: 1 screen to the village to connect 10,000 families
As the provincial capital of heilongjiang, harbin is entrusted with the task of leading the modernization of agricultural villages throughout the province. In recent years, vegetable cultivation and production in harbin city have stabilized at around 560,000 acres, or nearly 1. 56 million tons。
Entering the village of apricot, a specialty cooperative for the cultivation of fragrance corn, located in the pine-north district, which is only 40 minutes away from the city of harbin, a modern greenhouse is in full order. This is an important base for the food basket project in harbin city。
Vegetable sowing machine
“the parks are grown mainly in green crops of rice, maize and vegetables, with 10,000 tons of food produced in 2025, 500 tons of vegetables produced in total, and vegetables supplied mainly to the harbin city's large supermarket and the surrounding agricultural trading market.” according to zhao eunlong, a professional cooperative technician for farmers in the zoontang corn growing area of harbin city, “intellectual greenhouse heating uses new technologies that are environmentally friendly, clean and can regulate temperature. Vegetable gardens focus on green organic farming sheds, where only bio and organic fertilizers are used in vegetable cultivation, and in the use of deworming boards, which guarantee green green and non-hazardous vegetables.”
In 2025, the city of harbin carried out the “100 village demonstrations, 1000 villages remedial” initiative for the construction of easily and u. S. Villages, with 121 villages rated as star villages. In harbin city, a multi-city digital village platform has been created to visualize, trace and refine rural governance through digital and intellectual applications, bringing rural governance to a new level。
A demonstration of the "calls of music" digital village platform
“this platform, which addresses the burden at the grass-roots level, serves to reduce the burden at the grass-roots level and to better govern the villages, provides managers with the intellectual means to measure, integrate the demands of the population, improves grass-roots governance and facilitates the growth of wealth among the population, including businesses in the districts, so that digital rural construction can contribute to the overall revitalization of villages.” according to guo zhuang, secretary-general of the multi-city party party of harbin city, the platform has been given a deep sense of what is expected of a large group of musicians。
"call core" digital village platform module (sun-geun journalist chen xiaochun)
The deep integration of urban and rural spaces is reshaping the relationship between urban and rural areas. More and more citizens are participating in the production of quality agricultural products, and the countryside has become a new consumer scene. A new picture of modern agricultural development is perfect in harbin。
Spring is the beginning of hope. In the early spring of 2026, modern agricultural development in harbin had moved out of its traditional path and accelerated its new journey towards urban-rural prosperity。
Plan: lee shek
