Seeds are key to ensuring food security.
The no. 1 document of the Central Committee, which was recently released, proposes to do a good job in turning the seed industry around; the "three highs and four new" strategy of the provincial party committee has clearly defined the main direction and strategic focus of the "card neck" technology of the seed industry; and the economic work conference of the municipal party committee has proposed to vigorously develop the biological breeding industry.
How to make a small seed burst into great energy? Create a more influential Changsha "seed industry Silicon Valley"? The reporter recently visited the Furong District, where the "Silicon Valley of the Seed Industry" is located.
▲ The picture shows the start of the East Lake Innovation Valley project in Furong District
At the beginning of March, in the rumble of excavators, the East Lake Innovation Valley Project in Furong District was excavated in the spring rain, and 14 major projects in Furong District were started intensively, and the regional economic development once again pressed the "acceleration button". East Lake Innovation Valley Project, net land area of 245 acres, a total investment of about 500 million yuan. The project mainly relies on the advantages of scientific and technological talents and technology agglomeration such as the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the region, and builds a scientific and technological achievements exhibition center and a scientific and technological enterprise service center. After the completion of the project, it will integrate agricultural scientific and technological resources, improve the utilization rate of agricultural technological resources, and promote the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements.
The observer Jun learned that Furong District combined with the actual situation of the district to tackle the "card neck" technology of the seed industry, in which talents rejuvenated the garden and became an important part of its roadmap. Aggregate the scientific research advantages of the seed industry, provide a talent pool of scientific and technological experts for the "Silicon Valley of the seed industry", and invite experts and professors who have made outstanding contributions in various fields to the "think tank" to contribute wisdom to the innovative development, transformation and upgrading of Furong District.
Talent-driven to create acres of highlands
Over the years, in the "Silicon Valley of the Seed Industry", Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", Guan Chunyun, the "academician of rapeseed", Yin Yulong, the "academician of pigs", Zou Xue, the "academician of peppers", Liu Zhonghua, the "academician of tea", Liu Shaojun, the "academician of aquatic products", 6 "towering trees" in the agricultural field of Hunan, and the biological breeding industry in Furong District has "unique scenery".
Under the leadership of academicians, more than 90 high-end talents at or above the municipal level and more than 2,500 experts at or above the deputy high level have gathered in Furong District, which already has 25 research institutes of universities and research institutes such as the Institute of Subtropical Agroecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Provincial Agricultural University, the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the Provincial Hybrid Rice Research Center.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the industrial park is mainly based on manufacturing, and the industrial park often needs a lot of land space as a support, but the land resources in Furong District are scarce, and the area of Longping Hi-Tech Park has occupied 40% of the area of Furong District, while the Longping Hi-Tech Park, where the "Seed Industry Silicon Valley" is located, wants to develop agriculture on 18 square kilometers of land and make the strongest brain seed "chip" of agriculture.
▲ The picture shows the aerial view of Longping Hi-Tech Park
As the smallest park in the province, how will Longping Hi-Tech Park develop?
Furong District clearly positioned Longping Hi-Tech Park, grasped its own "characteristics", established a garden with "agriculture", and strengthened the garden with "planting". As one of the first batch of state-level agricultural high-tech parks approved by the State Science and Technology Commission, Longping Hi-Tech Park is also one of the "one district and four parks" in Changsha High-tech Zone.
"We should seek space for science and technology, expand capacity with innovation, and at the same time vigorously develop the biological seed industry based on the headquarters economy, and embark on a path of development with shrewd growth." Zhuo Jingjing, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Longping Hi-Tech Park and deputy secretary of the Furong District Cpc Committee, replied.
"For the park, it is also necessary to establish a platform for the combination of materialization, production, education and research, so that scientific research results can come out of the tin cabinet; in terms of project construction, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of the Yuelu Mountain Seed Industry Innovation Center, build a national innovation center, and form an industrial agglomeration platform." Zhou Chunhui, deputy secretary of the Furong District Party Committee and mayor of the district, said.
Science and technology "spring ploughing map" in the park
▲ The picture shows the Yuelu Mountain Seed Industry Innovation Center
In 2020, the Yuelu Mountain Seed Industry Innovation Center jointly established by the Hunan Provincial Government and CITIC Group was put into operation to jointly build a national biological breeding technology innovation center. At present, Yuelu Mountain Seed Industry Innovation Center is working hard to build a national biological breeding technology innovation center, the center carries the key common technologies and advantageous species in the field of research tasks, has started the molecular breeding technology, biological breeding intelligent big data 2 common technology research centers and rice, rape, vegetables, livestock and poultry, aquatic products, tea trees, oil tea, Chinese herbal medicine 8 professional research centers construction.
So far, the first phase of Huazhi Rice Molecular Breeding Center has been completed and operated, and 47 enterprises have settled in.
Molecular breeding technology has become the core competitiveness of the world's multinational seed industry giants, and it is also an important starting point for China's seed industry to catch up with the "latecomers". Dr. Xiao Jinhua, who is already the chief scientist abroad, gave up preferential treatment and returned to Hunan to serve as the chief scientist of Huazhi Biology. "Traditional breeding should go to the field to check the growth of crops, and select excellent varieties according to experience for external performance such as crop growth. Molecular breeding techniques utilize molecular markers that do not require phenotypic data for direct selection of superior genotypes. The molecular markers in each gene sequence are like signs on the highway, the good and bad traits of the markers are clear at a glance, and molecular breeding can greatly improve the breeding efficiency, shorten the breeding cycle, and achieve 'precision breeding' through the direct selection and effective polymerization of genes." Although Xiao Jinhua has been working abroad for nearly 30 years, he still speaks with a local voice, he said that because Academician Yuan Longping is his mentor and Hunan is his hometown, he hopes to work with scientists in the motherland to develop and innovate cutting-edge breeding technologies, and spend 10 to 15 years to catch up with the multinational seed giants.
▲ The picture shows Xiao Jinhua in Huazhi Biological National Rice Molecular Breeding Platform Laboratory
At present, the application scenarios of molecular breeding technology have been extended from major crops such as rice and corn to more than 40 species such as vegetables, fruits, Chinese medicinal materials, livestock and poultry, and aquatic products. At present, the laboratory is developing liquid phase gene chips for cotton, rape, shrimp, fish and other species, and liquid phase gene chips are national brand products with completely independent intellectual property rights, replacing solid phase gene chips monopolized by foreign technologies.
"I think this is a major opportunity for the Yuelu Mountain Seed Industry Innovation Center and Huazhi Biology. We will focus on the research of seed source 'card neck' technology, strengthen the research and development of the next generation of core technology innovation in the seed industry, empower the leapfrog development of China's seed industry, support the country to win the battle of turning the seed industry around, and create a national seed industry innovation highland. Tian Bingbing, chairman of Yuelu Mountain Seed Industry Innovation Center Co., Ltd. and president of Huazhi Biotechnology Co., Ltd., is full of confidence in the future of agricultural science and technology.
Breeding pigs are the chips of the pig industry and an important embodiment of the core competitiveness of the entire pig industry.
China's commercial pig germplasm resources are mostly introduced from Europe and the United States and other places, and the selection and breeding after the introduction has not kept up, and the pig industry has fallen into the cycle of "introduction- degradation - introduction". In order to cultivate high-quality breeding pigs, in 2018, 5 pig breeding companies and breeding technology companies such as Tianxin Seed Industry and New Wufeng in the province and breeding technology company Apex joined forces to establish Hunan Xiang Pig Technology Co., Ltd. in Longping High-tech Park, led by Chen Yaosheng, chief scientist of the national pig industry technology system, leading the team to study pig breeding, and created a gene transmission model with breeding boar semen as the core to cast pig breeding capabilities. "In the company's '14th Five-Year Plan', it will also introduce excellent local pig genetic resources such as the Luodai black pig (Daweizi pig) in Changsha County, build a genetic resources protection farm, and undertake the resource protection of the national genetic resources protection breed - the Daweizi pig." Xiang Pig Technology Director Gong Ziye introduced.
In addition to Xiang Pig Technology, a leading domestic pig breeding enterprise, Longping High-tech Park also has Yangxiang Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, which ranks eighth in the national pig market, and Jiahe Shares, which has formed a complete pig industry chain. By 2025, the province plans to build a relatively perfect pig breeding system, realize that the core breeding rate is more than 90%, avoid "a sword to seal the throat" at critical times, and reverse the passive situation of being subject to people. The enterprises of Longping Hi-Tech Park will become an important force in fulfilling this mission.
Taking advantage of the free trade zone to expand the "circle of friends"
Modern agriculture is an important part of Changsha's industrial development, and the Hunan Pilot Free Trade Zone has drawn a "circle" in Longping High-tech Park, bringing new development opportunities to enterprises in the park.
▲ The picture shows Chen Yingwu monitoring the operation of the system through the smart agriculture platform
Hunan Yingmeng Technology Co., Ltd. is an agricultural technology service company, committed to agricultural digitalization, promote agricultural modernization, in Longping High-tech Park belongs to the growth of enterprises, the head of the company Chen Yingwu said that the company will catch the express train of the pilot free trade zone, the service to the "Belt and Road" extension, last year during the epidemic, helped international enterprises to establish a seed online sales service platform, so that dealers sell agricultural materials online, farmers to achieve online purchase.
"Our company's goal is to become a listed enterprise on the Science and Technology Innovation Board in the agricultural field within five years!" Chen Yingwu, the head of the company, made a sound. Going out and developing a larger "circle of friends" in countries along the "Belt and Road" to let China's agricultural technology serve more farmers is his and his team's dream.
Thickly plant fertile soil for the business environment
Help the development of technology enterprises
The enterprise headquarters base of silicon valley in the seed industry is 21 million yuan rent-free for 23 seed enterprises; last year, 9 online bank-enterprise negotiations and policy interpretation meetings were carried out, helping 32 enterprises solve the financing of 580 million yuan...
"What help do we need here?" "The Seremban area is like its own home, working and living here, we felt very warm. Chatting with my family, I will not go around the bend and make a few needs on behalf of the company. "This is the dialogue between Zhou Chunhui, deputy secretary of the Furong District Party Committee and mayor of the district, when investigating the Yuelu Mountain Seed Industry Innovation Center more than a month ago, in a relaxed atmosphere, everyone communicates frankly, and the participating departments listen carefully and give suggestions and response methods in a timely manner.
Yuelu Mountain Seed Industry Innovation Center is the main position of Changsha Seed Industry Silicon Valley Construction, and the strong industrial foundation and first-class business environment have cultivated a fertile soil with sufficient nutrients for the development of enterprises.
"Seed industry Silicon Valley" has released the "siphon effect", attracting a number of "big-name famous corners" such as Huazhi Biology and Huirui Biology, and has successively introduced seed industry headquarters projects such as Zhonglang Seed Industry Headquarters and Chunyun Agricultural Headquarters to settle in. Today, the park has 225 upstream, middle and downstream enterprises in the biological breeding industry chain. Hybrid rice, hybrid millet and hybrid sunflower market share is the first in the world, hybrid cucumber, hybrid corn, hybrid pepper market share is the first in the country, is China's biological seed industry cutting-edge talents the most intensive, biological seed industry research institute is the most intensive, biological seed industry enterprises are the most dense area. In the past two years, rice varieties have passed the national examination, accounting for more than one-third of the national total.
Changsha "Seed Industry Silicon Valley"
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The "Three-year Action Plan for Changsha to Build a National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone (2021-2023)" clearly states that the seed industry Silicon Valley will be taken as the core pole of innovation, and an upgraded version of the dual innovation ecology and industrial innovation development will be created.
The three-year action plan of the self-creation district is in line with the action plan of the Seremban District for the next five years. Observer Jun (ID: hncstv) noted that in order to create a "peak" of the seed industry, Furong District has clearly planned a "strong area" roadmap.
-- Vigorously develop the biological breeding industry. By 2025, the total trade of the seed industry, the total output value of the seed industry, and the output value of the seed industry-related industries will reach 1.35 billion yuan, 10 billion yuan and 24 billion yuan respectively. There are 8 seed and related enterprises with annual sales revenue of more than 1 billion yuan, 40 seed industries and related enterprises above designated size, and 10 seed enterprises that have integrated breeding and breeding.
——Create a headquarters agglomeration area for the biological seed industry. Focusing on the introduction of the world's top 50 seed industry enterprises and China's top 30 seed industry enterprises in Longping Hi-Tech Park to set up group headquarters, regional headquarters, functional headquarters, the formation of multinational seed enterprises, local seed industry enterprises, seed industry professional service institutions three clusters, to create an international seed industry headquarters cluster with world influence.
-- Improving the industrial chain of the biological seed industry. Based on the four major seed industries such as crops, livestock and poultry aquatic products, forest fruits and flowers, and microorganisms, we will build a whole industrial chain of seed industry research and development, production and processing, trading exchanges, exhibition and training. Relying on Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hunan Agricultural University, Hunan Provincial Agricultural Germplasm Resources Conservation and Breeding Center and other units, the construction of crop germplasm resource banks.
-- Enhancing the innovation ability of the biological seed industry. Accelerate the construction of innovation carriers such as the Yuelu Mountain Seed Industry Innovation Center and the Longping Biological Seed Industry Industrial Park, strengthen the germplasm resource creation and breeding innovation system, and build a national biological seed industry technology innovation center with strong independent innovation ability and high level of transfer and transformation.
The lines are clear and the actions are more determined. Furong District is building the "Silicon Valley of the Seed Industry" with high quality of "Three Bull Spirit", and is focusing on creating a benchmark area for the construction of modern new Changsha, turning the planning blueprint into a beautiful reality step by step.
Source: Changsha Observation