Traditional agricultural machinery consumes a lot of diesel, and the resulting exhaust gas has a serious impact on the environment. Especially when working in confined Spaces such as greenhouses, the exhaust gas emitted will directly threaten the health of workers and the growth of crops. At present, in the international scope, new energy agricultural machinery is emerging. Agricultural machinery driven by new energy such as electric power and solar energy is gradually moving towards the stage of commercial application, and the market demand is growing rapidly. However, new energy agricultural machinery also faces many challenges, such as difficulties in battery life and energy supply, high costs and insufficient standardization and large-scale production. Because of this, many international agricultural machinery enterprises actively participate in the field of new energy agricultural machinery. The "Action Plan for the Development of agricultural machinery Equipment (2016-2025)" lists "clean fuel and new energy agricultural power, electronically controlled injection and new energy tractor" as key host products for development. In August 2024, the Office of the Central Cybersecurity and Information Technology Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments jointly issued the "Digital Green Collaborative Transformation Development Guide" clearly pointed out that it is necessary to speed up the research and development and application of intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment, and develop intelligent, efficient and green compound agricultural machinery and equipment according to local conditions. As well as new energy agricultural machinery equipment such as hybrid tractors, facility electric operation equipment, 5G+ hydrogen fuel tractors. With the outstanding advantages of zero pollution and low noise, new energy agricultural machinery equipment is an important tool for promoting green agricultural development, realizing energy conservation and emission reduction, protecting the ecological environment and building livable villages. With the continuous development of intelligent agricultural machinery, unmanned and automatic operation technology of agricultural machinery can effectively improve the accuracy and efficiency of operation.

New energy agricultural machinery replaces fossil fuels with electricity or other new energy sources to become the main power source, and is an emerging force in agricultural equipment. In order to strongly promote the agricultural equipment industry to achieve innovative breakthroughs and accelerate the construction of high-end intelligent agricultural equipment new quality productivity, the magazine closely focuses on the application scenarios and development needs of new energy agricultural machinery, and carefully plans to launch the special topic of "new energy agricultural machinery". This special topic invites Professor Song Zhenghe, Dean of College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, to serve as chief editor. It is now open to a wide range of domestic and foreign manuscripts, and warmly welcomes experts, scholars and researchers in related research fields to contribute actively.

1. Chief Editor of the topic

Song Zhenghe, Ph.D., Professor and doctoral supervisor, Dean of College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Deputy Director of National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Power Equipment, director of Beijing Key Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Equipment Optimization Design, Director of National Virtual Simulation Teaching Center for Mechanical and Agricultural Engineering, He also serves as the executive director of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery, the director of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering, and the deputy director of the Tractor Society of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery. His research direction is mainly focused on agricultural machinery equipment design and test method research. He has presided over or participated in more than 30 scientific research projects including national key research and development plan projects, published more than 200 academic papers, authorized more than 30 patents, and won 4 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.

2. Scope of solicitation (including but not limited to)

1. New energy tractors (pure electric tractors, extender tractors, hydrogen energy tractors)

2. New energy farming machinery (electric rotary tiller, plow and harrow, etc.)

3. New energy planting machinery (sowing, transplanting, etc.)

4. New energy field management machinery (plant protection drone, sprayer, weeder, etc.)

5. New energy harvesting machinery (harvesters, pickers, etc.)

3. Details of solicitation

1. Paper requirements: unpublished original research papers, either Chinese or English, in line with the scope of this topic, clear views, accurate materials, correct data, reasonable argument, standard format. The text is refined and the content is substantial, including Chinese and English title, author information, abstract, key words, fund projects, text, references, charts can be edited, and word document submission.

2. Forms of solicitation: research papers, reviews, etc.

3. Submission deadline: June 15, 2025

4. The submission site: http://znhnyzbxb.niam.com.cn

5. Contact Email: jiam@caas.cn

6. Special Editor: Qiao Lu 15366092883 (wechat number)

                         Zhu Bing 15366092857 (wechat number)