Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Plan for Accelerating the Construction of a Strong Agricultural Country (2024-2035)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which sets out a roadmap and blueprint for accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural country. As an organic component of green agricultural development, the new humic acid industry should take the responsibility of consolidating the new beautiful countryside and accelerate its integration into the construction of the "community of life of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts". To this end, the entire industry should make precise efforts in the 18 key areas deployed in the "Plan".

I. Implement the action to improve the organic matter content of cultivated land, strengthen the protection and utilization of black soil, and manage degraded cultivated land.

Humic acid is an important component of soil organic matter, a key to building a healthy and loose topsoil layer, and the core of cultivated land quality construction and protection. We will unswervingly adhere to the feedback route of "letting humic acid come from and return to the soil", and unswervingly adhere to the "two-machine complementarity" principle of "letting black humic acid transform white chemical fertilizers into humic acid-based fertilizers to return the soil to its original color". We will make the best use of the nutritional elements of humic acid and humic acid functional fertilizers to improve the quality of cultivated land, consolidate the foundation of cultivated land, and fully protect black soil. This is the "duty" of humic acid people.

II. Solidly advance the new round of action to increase grain production capacity by 100 billion kilograms, deeply implement the action to increase the per unit area yield of major crops such as grain and oil, and accelerate the construction of national grain security industrial belts.

51 years ago, the document "Notice of the State Council on Forwarding the Report of the Ministry of Fuel and Chemicals and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on Actively Experimenting, Promoting, and Developing Humic Acid Fertilizers" (Guofa [1974] No. 110) clearly stated that humic acid fertilizers, as a type of organic fertilizer, can both increase yield and nourish the land. Today, after practical verification, the yield-increasing effect of humic acid fertilizers has been further improved, and at the same time, its functions have been continuously enriched and expanded in the fields of improving cultivated land quality, reducing chemical fertilizer use, protecting black soil, transforming low- and medium-yield fields, managing saline-alkali land, and managing acidified soil. It is a core and important material foundation for consolidating the strategy of "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology" and promoting the new round of action to increase grain production capacity by 100 billion kilograms.

III. Stabilize rice and wheat production, promote structural optimization, and improve quality.

Humic acid plays a multi-dimensional and comprehensive positive role in improving the quality of rice and wheat. Whether it is optimizing appearance, improving nutrition, improving taste, or enhancing storage performance, humic acid wheat-specific fertilizers and humic acid rice silicon fertilizers are of excellent quality and have huge potential. They are the best choice for ensuring food quality and safety and meeting people's growing demand for high-quality food.

IV. Develop tuber and miscellaneous grain crops according to local conditions.

Humic acid, humic acid fertilizers, and their derivative products are widely used in tuber crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro, and yam, as well as miscellaneous grain crops such as foxtail millet, broomcorn millet, buckwheat, sorghum, and oats. With their multiple attributes of "soil improvement, increased efficiency, disease resistance, and quality improvement", they can accurately adapt to the biological characteristics and diverse planting environments of tuber and miscellaneous grain crops, and are an important support for promoting the quality improvement and efficiency increase of the tuber and miscellaneous grain industry according to local conditions.

V. Tap the production potential of oil crops such as rapeseed and peanuts, and expand oil sources such as camellia oil and animal fats.

Humic acid provides systematic growth support for oil crops such as rapeseed, peanuts, and camellia oil through various pathways, and is an important aid in tapping the production potential of oil crops and improving their yield and quality. In the "one promotion and four preventions" of rapeseed, the use of humic acid water-soluble fertilizer can promote rapeseed growth, improve rapeseed disease resistance, increase the number of pods per plant, the number of seeds per pod, and the thousand-grain weight, significantly increasing rapeseed yield and increasing the oil content of rapeseed. In peanut cultivation, humic acid can improve the soil environment, promote root development and nodule formation, improve photosynthesis efficiency, regulate hormone balance, and thus enhance peanut disease resistance, improve fruit setting rate, promote fruit development, make peanut fruits full, increase the shelling rate and oil content, and achieve disease resistance and increased yield. In camellia oil cultivation, humic acid can improve soil structure, promote nutrient absorption, enhance the disease resistance of camellia oil, regulate its physiological metabolism, promote fruit development and oil accumulation, and improve camellia oil yield.

VI. Develop the transportation of southern vegetables to the north and vegetable production in cool regions.

In cool-region vegetable production, humic acid water-soluble fertilizer can adapt to the low-temperature irrigation conditions of cool regions, quickly supplement nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and chelate trace elements, improve soil aggregate structure, promote the healthy development of vegetable roots in cool environments, enhance cold and disease resistance, and significantly improve vegetable yield and marketability. In addition, peat substrate, as a high-quality carrier for facility agriculture, with its loose and porous, water-retention and fertilizer-retention natural properties, can effectively make up for the shortcomings of thin soil and insufficient accumulated temperature in cool regions, providing an ideal growth medium for greenhouse vegetables and other facility vegetables, and helping to promote the standardized production of off-season vegetables.

VII. Promote the high-quality development of the pig industry, enhance the competitiveness of the dairy industry, and carry out actions to increase the quantity and improve the quality of beef and mutton.

Humic acid feed can provide a "healthy breeding-quality improvement-environmentally friendly" integrated solution for the livestock and poultry industry through pathways such as regulating animal physiological metabolism, improving the breeding environment, and improving product quality, providing technical support for the high-quality development of the pig, dairy cow, and beef and mutton livestock and poultry breeding industries.

VIII. Develop modern fisheries.

Humic acid has unique structure and properties that can regulate the pH of aquaculture water, create stable water quality, and avoid stress in aquatic animals; it has strong adsorption capacity, can remove heavy metals and pollutants from water, reduce toxins, and reduce diseases; it can also chelate minerals, enrich natural bait, and when added to feed, it can enhance the immunity of aquatic animals, improve yield and quality, and is a "good helper" for healthy aquaculture.

IX. Develop high-quality, water-saving, and high-yield forage production.

Humic acid can play a key role in the production of high-quality, water-saving, and high-yield forage, including enhancing the soil's water and fertilizer retention capacity, reducing water loss and nutrient leaching, making forage roots develop more robustly, and improving water use efficiency. Combined with water-saving irrigation, it can significantly reduce irrigation frequency, save water resources, and at the same time, ensure forage growth needs by slow-release nutrients, achieving the dual goals of high-quality and high-yield forage and water-saving and increased efficiency.

X. Research and develop independent intellectual property rights of smart agriculture technology, improve the smart agriculture standard system, and release the digital productivity of agriculture and rural areas.

Humic acid is the core link in the development of climate-smart agriculture. Its natural properties, deeply integrated with the Internet of Things, big data, and AI algorithms, can build a digital model of "humic acid-soil-crops", accurately simulating water and fertilizer movement and crop growth needs, forming an intelligent system integrating monitoring, decision-making, and control, and further consolidating the foundation for green and low-carbon development.

11. Promote the upgrading of agricultural quality and branding. Deeply promote the improvement of agricultural varieties, quality improvement, brand building, and standardized production to increase the supply of green and high-quality agricultural products.

In the process of promoting the upgrading of agricultural quality and branding, humic acid is a core driver for improving geographical indication agricultural products and authentic traditional Chinese medicines. By improving the micro-environment of the origin soil, enriching characteristic nutrients, and regulating crop physiological metabolism, it significantly improves the content of effective components in agricultural products and the authenticity of traditional Chinese medicines, laying a solid foundation for "quality" from the source.

12. Implement an agricultural standardization improvement plan.

Develop quality standards for humic acid inputs and field application technical regulations (such as precise ratio, application cycle, and adaptable crop types). Relying on humic acid and Internet of Things monitoring, blockchain traceability, and other technologies, a full-process standardized system of humic acid "soil improvement-nutrient regulation-quality assurance" can be built, realizing the transformation of a modernized model where new humic acid assists agricultural production with "standards to follow, production according to standards, and circulation according to standards".

13. Cultivate a group of regional public brands, enterprise brands, and product brands with high quality and strong competitiveness.

On April 1, the association officially launched the "HA trademark" certification work, marking the transition of the humic acid industry from technology-driven to a dual-driven model of "technology + brand". With the deep integration of the "HA trademark" certification system with blockchain traceability, e-commerce platforms, and international standards, this "golden signboard" will become a bridge linking high-quality resources, connecting high-end markets, and exporting Chinese solutions, providing lasting impetus for improving the added value of humic acid products, enhancing enterprise competitiveness, and the rise of regional characteristic industries, helping agricultural brand building to move from the accumulation of "quantity" to a leap in "quality".

14. Refine and improve rural characteristic planting and breeding industries, do a good job in selecting local characteristic varieties, and develop clean production, full-process standardization, and high-quality characteristic planting and breeding.

Humic acid rice-field crab farming and biomass humic acid inject ecological impetus into refining and improving rural characteristic planting and breeding industries. In rice-field crab farming, humic acid can purify water quality and improve bottom mud, promote rice root development and enhance stress resistance by regulating soil micro-ecology, and provide a clean habitat for river crabs, achieving "coexistence of rice and crabs" and improving the quality of both; the biomass humic acid industry, by building a "straw-humic acid/fulvic acid-feeding back to agricultural production" cycle model, helps clean production, standardized planting and breeding, and promotes the advancement of rural characteristic industries towards green circulation and high added value.

15. Strengthen the governance and safe utilization of polluted farmland.

Humic acid is widely used in the remediation and management of farmland pollution, as evidenced by 142 research findings on humic acid-like substances for the treatment of polluted soil.

16. Promote comprehensive prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution and develop ecological circular agriculture.

For agricultural non-point source pollution, humic acid can play a functional role both above and below the soil. Eight methods using humic acid can be used in the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution.

17. Promote in-depth water-saving and water control in agriculture in the Yellow River Basin.

Humic acid water-soluble fertilizers, water-retaining agents, and biodegradable humic acid films have drought-resistant effects and can work together to build a "water retention-water saving-efficiency increase" system, saving an average of 20% to 30% of irrigation water per mu in the basin, simultaneously achieving drought-resistant and increased crop yields and efficient use of water resources, providing a systematic solution for water saving in agriculture in the Yellow River Basin.

18. Deepen multi-bilateral agricultural cooperation and promote cooperation in the field of food security under the Global Development Initiative.

The association is actively preparing to establish the "International Humic Acid Environmentally Friendly Federation" to build an important cooperation platform for global sustainable agricultural development. Relying on this platform, by integrating high-quality domestic and international resources, it will effectively promote the mutual recognition of technical standards, transformation of achievements, and project docking in the fields of soil improvement, water-saving agriculture, and reduced fertilizer application, using new humic acid green technology cooperation to build a solid global food security defense line.