A farmer drives a harvester in Weicheng district of Weifang city, East China's Shandong province, June 5, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

　　In the prefecture-level city of Heze in southwestern Shandong province, Juye county is developing its more of its permanent basic cropland into high-standard cropland, so as to boost its grain output.

　　The country is calling all regions to develop of all their permanent basic cropland into high-yield cropland, as a way to build up China's strength in agriculture and speed up rural vitalization.

　　In a construction site of Jiangcun village in Juye, many large machines were roaring in the field on Oct 31, as over 40 workers and machines were working together, showing a busy and orderly scene.

　　The village in Zhangfeng town is vigorously promoting the 2024 high-standard cropland construction. With a goal of “connecting roads, forming a network of canals, irrigation when a drought hits and drainage when a flood comes,“ the town is sparing no effort to ensure the efficient and orderly implementation of its project, laying a solid foundation for increasing farmland efficiency and grain output.

　　“We have organized 10 large machines and let a lot of work be carried out at the same time every day. At present, we are in the process of road leveling, pipe network laying and shaft construction. Later, we will carry out road hardening and other supporting facilities. It is expected that the whole job can be completed by the end of December,“ said Sun Shuangshuang, construction director of the ongoing project.