A worker checks the growth condition of seedlings at a seedling greenhouse in Kaiyang County of Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 23, 2023. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)

　　Editor's note: China is riding the wave of an AI-powered transformation. As AI reshapes industries and daily life, it is not only driving automation and increasing efficiency but also unlocking new possibilities. Xinhua hereby presents a series of six stories on the “new frontiers of AI applications,“ exploring how this technology is redefining sectors and enriching everyday experiences. The following is the sixth piece to reveal how AI-powered agriculture has become a game-changer for over 460 million people in China's rural areas.

　　BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Inside a smart greenhouse in Chengdu, the capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, two robots, swiftly zipping through ridges between fields, were taking patrol training. With their high-definition cameras, these robots can snap real-time shots of crops' growth and send images straight to the cloud.

　　“After integrating with the DeepSeek large model, our team trained the robots through tens of thousands of images to improve their pest identification accuracy, which has exceeded 80 percent,“ said Wu Yuanqing, the robots' developer.

　　Once the accuracy is improved, these robots can help farmers increase their decision-making precision in planting and efficiency of agricultural production, Wu added.

　　The rise of AI-powered agriculture in China highlights the government's continued efforts to modernize its agricultural sector to accelerate rural revitalization, which profoundly impacts the lives of over 460 million people in rural areas.