24 Jan 2020 --- Entering the Chinese New Year, robots, big data services, artificial intelligence (AI) and streamlined e-commerce are heating up China’s agricultural landscape. While digital resources across the country’s urban areas remain scattered, the Chinese government has issued a new policy that seeks to bridge the urban-rural divide by 2025. This could spell out dramatic shifts for global food chains as the world’s most populous nation gets a technological upgrade. However, key infrastructural challenges could present a major obstacle.