Founded in 1947, it is a national ecological demonstration zone, an important domestic commercial grain production/grain reserve base, and a large enterprise group mainly engaged in agricultural product processing/food/agricultural machinery/fertilizer/medicine/building materials manufacturing and other businesses

Heilongjiang reclamation area is located in the southern foothills of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, the Songnen Plain and the Sanjiang Plain in northeast China. With a total land area of 55,400 square kilometers, 43.63 million mu of cultivated land, 13.84 million mu of forest land, 5.09 million mu of grassland and 3.88 million mu of water surface, it is a national ecological demonstration zone. It has 9 administrative bureaus, 113 farms and pastures, and 986 state-owned and state-controlled enterprises. It is distributed in 12 cities in the province, with a total population of 1.677 million. In 2016, the GDP of the reclamation area reached 119.73 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%; The proportions of primary, secondary and tertiary industries were 43.5: 20.7: 35.8; The per capita disposable income of residents reached 25,421 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.6%.

The development and construction of the reclamation area began in 1947, and in 2010, the reclamation area was named "National Modern Agricultural Demonstration Zone" by the Ministry of Agriculture. At present, the reclamation area already has a comprehensive grain production capacity of 44 billion catties and a commercial grain security capacity of 40 billion catties. The development and construction of the Great Northern Wilderness has not only created huge material wealth, but also created the spirit of the Great Northern Wilderness with the main connotation of "hard work, courage to open up, consideration of the overall situation, and selfless dedication", which has inspired generation after generation of Great Northern Wilderness people to forge ahead on the great journey of building modern agriculture.

As the representative of China's advanced agricultural productive forces, the reclamation area has a unique advantage in developing modern agriculture. The land resources are enriched, the per capita resources are large, the cultivated land is concentrated and contiguous, suitable for large-scale mechanized operations, and the per capita cultivated land occupied by the employees of the primary industry is 97 mu. The infrastructure is complete, and the four major water conservancy engineering systems of flood control, flood removal, irrigation and soil and water conservation have been basically completed, with an effective irrigation area of 27.84 million mu, accounting for 64% of the cultivated area. 21.825 million mu of ecological high-yield standard farmland has been built, accounting for 51% of the total cultivated area. The total power of agricultural machinery is 10.451 million kilowatts, with an average of 0.24 kilowatts of agricultural machinery power per mu, and the agricultural mechanization rate is 99.4%. It has 98 agricultural aircraft and an annual aviation operation capacity of 24 million mu. The grain storage capacity is 22.49 million tons, and the drying capacity is 21 million tons. The contribution rate of agricultural science and technology reached 68.2%, and the conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements reached 82%, ranking the world's leading level. The reclamation area adheres to the implementation of agricultural industrialization, creates pillar industries such as rice, flour, oil, meat, milk, potatoes, and seeds, has 33 national and provincial key industrialization leading enterprises, and cultivates a number of well-known trademarks in China, such as "Beidahuang", "Wandashan" and "Jiusan", among which the "Beidahuang" brand has been selected as China's most valuable brand for 15 consecutive years, ranking first in China's agriculture. Actively implementing the strategy of "going out" in agriculture, the number of overseas enterprises has reached 26, mainly distributed in 13 countries and regions such as Russia, Australia and Thailand, and the overseas land development area has reached 3.04 million mu. The reclamation area insists on grasping economic development with one hand and social undertaking construction with the other. The urbanization rate reached 85.8%, and the per capita residential area reached 32.2 square meters. The mileage of highway hardening exceeded 10,000 kilometers, and the patency rate of the site reached 100%. The regional forest coverage rate is 17.1 per cent. The social insurance adopts the "five insurances in one" model to achieve full coverage of the reclamation area. At present, there are 143 compulsory education schools, all of which have reached the provincial standardization level. 121 hospitals. The coverage rate of the cultural information resource sharing project is 100%.

With the strong support of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, the reform of the management committees of Jiansanjiang, Jiusan Administration and Gongqing Farm has been implemented, and a major breakthrough has been made in the fiscal and taxation management system of the reclamation area. Since the start of operation, the Jiansanjiang, Jiusan and Gongqing Management Committees have completed a total of 3.988 billion yuan in full-caliber tax revenue, of which 1.3 billion yuan was completed in 2016, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%. In accordance with the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Further Promoting the Reform and Development of Agricultural Reclamation" and the requirements and arrangements of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Government and the Ministry of Agriculture, we have accelerated the collectivization of reclamation areas and the enterpriseization of farms, and launched 15 specific reforms on 7 topics and 6 reform guarantees. The comprehensive reform pilot of the Suihua and Harbin Administration Bureaus has been launched in an all-round way, the 21 farms (animal husbandry) under the two administrations have been integrated and reorganized, and 15 newly established subsidiaries have been officially put into operation, accumulating experience for comprehensively deepening the reform of agricultural reclamation in Heilongjiang.