Grow from your smartphone

从智能手机中成长

Round Table China

2026-04-09

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Imagine growing your own vegetables without leaving the city. In China, shared garden plots and "cloud farming" apps let people manage crops, harvest on weekends, or get fresh veggies delivered to their door. So how can technology really bring the countryside to city life? On the show: Niu Honglin, Fei Fei & Yushan
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  • discussion keeps the world turning.

  • This is Roundtable.

  • From the heart of Beijing to the edges of the global stage, you're at Roundtable.

  • I'm Niu Honglin.

  • Imagine being able to grow your own vegetables without owning farmland.

  • You don't have to wake up early to farm or even live the city during the week.

  • In China, that idea is becoming surprisingly common.

  • With shared garden plots and cloud farming platforms,

  • people can manage crop through an app, harvest on weekends, For today's show, I'm joined by Fei Fei and Yishan.

  • Now pull up a chair and join the conversation.

  • What if farming can work like a subscription service from shared vegetable plots in cities like Jinan that get

  • snapped up overnight to adopt a chicken programs where you can manage on your phone?

  • Agriculture is being moved onto the cloud.

  • You don't need to own land, wake up at dawn, or even leave the city.

  • You can farm remotely, digitally, and on your own terms.

  • Would you choose this shareable and sometimes clickable way of farming?

  • I think it is a fair question to answer, but we need to know what we 're asking

  • because we need to know what exactly is this on-air farming is about.

  • Well, on-air or impractical, like in the touching of the land,

  • they 're both doable nowadays because previously we said that Chinese people like to play vegetable