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Planting a "test demonstration field" for Modern Agriculture in China - a record of the 25-year development of Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone

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The sails are just right, and the clouds are moving towards the future.

In July 1997, with the issuance of the "Reply of the State Council on the Establishment of Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone and Its Implementation Plan", the construction curtain of the Yangling Demonstration Zone of the first national high-tech zone in the field of agricultural industry was officially opened, and the "National Agricultural High Zone" has since opened a new voyage. Over the past 25 years, Yangling Demonstration Zone has practiced the national mission of supporting and leading the development of modern agriculture in arid and semi-arid areas, and has interpreted the wonderful chapter of science and technology-driven agricultural high-tech industry leading demonstration.

Twenty-five years of wind and rain, twenty-five years of spring and autumn. With the joint construction of provinces and ministries as the characteristics, scientific and technological innovation as the driving force, and high-quality development as the pursuit, over the past 25 years, the Yangling Demonstration Zone has always had the "great power of the country" in mind, giving full play to the role of the "national team" vanguard, the "experimental field" of science and education integration, the "leading goose" of scientific and technological innovation, and the "general window" of agricultural opening up, striving to build a pioneering demonstration zone for the modernization and reform of China's agricultural science and technology, and the once remote and backward "agricultural science township" has continuously accelerated towards the vibrant modern "agricultural science city".

Scientific and technological innovation has achieved a historic leap forward

During the Mengxia season, the wheat waves are rolling and the harvest is in sight.

Look at the color, look at the grain, look at the growth trend... After the small full solar term, a national wheat new variety observation meeting was held in Yangling. The observation group followed the wheat wave and observed a series of new varieties of Yangling wheat full of scientific and technological innovation elements, such as "Xinong 511", "Weilong 169" and "Xinong 926", and witnessed the majestic power of scientific and technological innovation to lead the high-quality development of the seed industry.

"Focusing on the major national strategies and the needs of agricultural development in arid areas, Yangling Demonstration Zone has actively carried out agricultural scientific and technological innovation, achieved a series of innovative achievements with important supporting roles in the breeding of wheat varieties, and successfully explored a characteristic development path driven by scientific and technological innovation to drive agricultural modernization." Xu Weigang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Wheat National Engineering Laboratory, said.

Taking scientific and technological innovation as the window, experts and scholars from all over the country have compared Yangling to "silicon valley of the seed industry in arid areas", fully affirming that Yangling has made outstanding contributions to winning the "turnaround battle" of the seed industry and ensuring national food security in terms of scientific and technological research in the seed industry, the construction of seed industry enterprises, and the rescue protection of germplasm resources.

Nowadays, the team of Professor Ji Wanquan of Northwest A&F University is "marching" towards high-quality strong ribs, red mildew and stripe rust green wheat, Professor Ma Lingjian's team is committed to breeding new varieties of high-quality special wheat such as winemaking wheat, and Professor Min Donghong's research group is making every effort to overcome the technical problems of breeding new varieties of drought-resistant and water-saving transgenic wheat. Basic research, targeted breeding, and biological breeding are in the ascendant.

Over the past 25 years, Yangling Demonstration Zone has solidly fulfilled its national mission, vigorously implemented the development strategy driven by agricultural scientific and technological innovation, transformed the ability of scientific and technological innovation into a driving force for regional development, and embarked on a road of building a platform, fighting a hard battle, and promoting opening up:

Build a platform, plant a fertile soil for scientific and technological innovation——

From the State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas to the State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Agriculture on the Loess Plateau, from the Yangling Seed Industry Innovation Center to the China Yangling Arable Land Protection and Quality Improvement Innovation Center, from the Fruit, Animal Husbandry, Food Engineering and other agricultural industry innovation centers to the Qinchuangyuan Agricultural Plate Innovation Drive Platform, Yangling Demonstration Zone has always adhered to scientific and technological innovation as the "No. 1 project" for development, continuously strengthened the construction of various innovation platforms, and successively built 97 scientific and technological innovation platforms at or above the provincial and ministerial levels. It has become an "accelerator" for the construction of the core area of agricultural science and technology innovation and promotion in arid and semi-arid areas.

As Kang Zhensheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, professor of Northwest A&F University and director of Yangling Seed Industry Innovation Center, said, Yangling provides a platform for the collection of crop seed industry and modern biotechnology, promotes the improvement of traditional seed industry, and does a good job in research and development and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and provides new opportunities for mainland agriculture, especially the development of agriculture in arid areas.

Gathering resources, innovation strength is getting stronger and stronger——

Well-known seed industry enterprises Xianzhengda, Kedihua and Shaanxi Hybrid Rapeseed Center, Golden Shed Seed Industry and other seed industry research institutes and enterprises have landed in Yangling, all kinds of agricultural science and technology innovation elements continue to gather, Yangling agricultural innovation highland role is becoming more and more obvious. At the same time, we will give full play to the institutional advantages of the demonstration zone and the role of science and education talent think tanks such as Northwest A&F University and Yangling Vocational and Technical College, vigorously promote the integration and collaborative innovation of districts and schools, and explore and form a new mechanism for the development of "combining agriculture, science and education, and integration of production, education and research", and the ability of regional collaborative innovation has been significantly enhanced.

Promote openness, let the road of innovation go wider and wider——

In recent years, Yangling has taken the opportunity of building the Shanghai Cooperation Organization agricultural technology exchange and training demonstration base, giving full play to the superposition advantages of the demonstration zone and the free trade zone, deeply promoting international agricultural exchanges, training and demonstrations, successively establishing the Silk Road Agricultural Education Science and Technology Innovation Alliance, building a number of international agricultural science and technology cooperation parks, more "golden seeds" containing "Yangling gene" going abroad, and opening up brilliant "agricultural science flowers" in countries along the Silk Road and SCO member states.

In the past 25 years, Yangling Demonstration Zone has made important breakthroughs in wheat genetic breeding and stripe rust prevention and control, cattle and sheep somatic cell cloning, apple stress-resistant biology, animal embryonic stem cell research, and soil and water conservation and ecological construction on the Loess Plateau. A biological breeding technology system of wheat, corn, rapeseed, potatoes, apples and other biological breeding technologies in arid and semi-arid areas has been established, and 768 new varieties of crops and 12 new varieties of apples have been approved, laying a solid foundation for the mainland to achieve scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance.

"The emergence of scientific research achievements is a concentrated embodiment of the Yangling Demonstration Zone's long-term adherence to research and development achievements in key areas of scientific and technological innovation for many years, and it is also the result of deepening reform to stimulate vitality, strengthen policy guidance and incentives, and coordinate investment in scientific and technological innovation and finance." Kang Shaozhong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of China Agricultural University, said.

Achievement transformation and promotion are fruitful

Turning over the distribution map of the promotion base of Yangling Demonstration Area, it is not difficult to find that from the land of Sanqin to the western frontier, from the Gobi Desert to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, everywhere highlights the agricultural science and technology content of Yangling and the results of demonstration and promotion. In the Huanghuai wheat area, The "Yangling wheat" planted in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, Changge, Henan and other places has a large grain and a bumper harvest year after year; In the northern Shaanxi Plateau, "Yangling corn" is huge and widely planted...

During the autumn harvest last year, the corn harvest in Yingpanliang Village, Duiziliang Town, Dingbian County, Yulin City, was harvested, and the fields were a busy scene. "Since planting the new varieties of 'Shaanxi Dan 609', 'Shaanxi Dan 650' and 'Shaanxi Shan 636' maize cultivated by Professor Xue Jiquan's team of Northwest A&F University, the yield has increased year by year, and the income has become higher and higher year by year." When it comes to the harvest in recent years, gao haikuan, a large corn grower, is overjoyed.

The planting area ranges from 20 mu to 630 mu, the average planting density per mu increases from 4000 to 5500 plants, the yield per mu is also increased from 700 kg to more than 1000 kg, and the annual net income is 400,000 yuan.

The transformation and promotion of achievements is a key measure to improve the quality and efficiency of agriculture. Relying on the scientific research advantages, breeding technology, demonstration and promotion advantages of Northwest A&F University, Yangling Demonstration Zone has given full play to the role of the National (Yangling) Agricultural Technology Transfer Center and the National (Yangling) Plant Variety Rights Trading Center in Arid Areas, and has delivered Yangling's agricultural scientific and technological achievements to thousands of households.

"The Yangling Demonstration Zone has continued to improve the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and the integration of the promotion system, and has achieved remarkable results in promoting the integration and integrated development of districts and schools, and the ability of regional collaborative innovation has been significantly enhanced." Professor Wang Zhengbing of Northwest A&F University said.

Not only that, Yangling has also focused on major strategic needs such as national food security, ecological security and agricultural development in arid areas, continuously expanded and strengthened agricultural science and technology demonstration and promotion articles, explored and formed a series of new experiences and new models, especially around the problem of solving the difficulty of transforming scientific and technological achievements, explored and formed "six promotion models" such as university experimental stations, industrial chains, and agricultural training, and opened up the "last kilometer" of agricultural science and technology promotion.

In the past 25 years, Yangling has promoted 2,700 new varieties and new technologies, and has built 350 agricultural science and technology demonstration and promotion bases in 18 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country, with an annual demonstration and promotion area of 100 million mu and a promotion benefit of 23.5 billion yuan. At the same time, focusing on the national poverty alleviation strategy, giving full play to the advantages of Yangling's agricultural science and education, exploring and forming a scientific and technological poverty alleviation work model of "building an agricultural science and technology demonstration and promotion base, showing it to farmers, carrying out agricultural science and technology training, teaching farmers to do it, guiding leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization to participate, and leading farmers to do it", hundreds of millions of farmers have benefited from it.

It is worth mentioning that the annual Yangling Agricultural High School has been successfully held for 28 sessions, ranked among the national 5A-level agricultural comprehensive exhibition sequence and obtained the certification of the International Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) and a well-known trademark in China, becoming a first-class and internationally renowned agricultural exhibition brand in China, and building an important platform for the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements in the western region of the mainland.

"The Yangling demonstration area has explored and formed a variety of demonstration and promotion paths, and scientific and technological achievements have been rapidly transformed and demonstrated, which has played an important role in ensuring national food security and developing agriculture with characteristics of arid areas to overcome poverty." Li Lihui, a researcher at the Institute of Crop Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said.

Characteristic modern industries have formed a big pattern

The greenhouses stand majestically, neatly and orderly; A branch of vine is fruitful, and a good harvest is in sight; One by one, the southern fruit and northern seeds were successfully introduced in Yangling, and the new farmers smiled happily... In Yangling, Shaanxi Province, with the construction and use of modern agricultural demonstration gardens one after another, agriculture has burst out of "new vitality" here in the new era, agriculture has become "tide", rural areas have become "beautiful", and farmers have also caught the "train" of getting rich and running towards a happy life.

At the beginning of July, at the Dragon Fruit Base in Yangling Qingpi Her Garden, a neat ridge of dragon fruit trees stretched to the end of the line of sight, some of which had just grown new shoots and some of which had already hung fruit. Workers are carrying out pipe and protection work such as pruning and bud trimming, and wang Yan, the head of the base, is sitting in front of the mobile phone screen and broadcasting live to the camera.

In 2009, Wang Yan and her husband returned to Yangling from Hainan with the experience of planting dragon fruit, and successfully planted high-quality and high-yield dragon fruit in Yangling by taking advantage of Yangling's scientific and educational resources and planting technology mastered in Hainan.

With the joint efforts of the couple, after more than 10 years of struggle, the current dragon fruit planting base area has reached 155 acres, with more than 20 varieties. The base has also taken a big step from the beginning of the single picking to the current diversified operation.

A small pillow with big technology. In the Yangling Professional Farmer Entrepreneurship Innovation Park, thousands of "small pillows" in a shed are neatly arranged in an orderly manner, and the seedlings on the "pillow" quietly absorb nutrients. The fruits and vegetables such as watermelons, tomatoes, cucumbers and other fruits and vegetables grown here are many times more productive than those planted directly in the soil, and this "small pillow" is an important part of Yangling's "facility agriculture 3+2 technology system", with the promotion and application of Yangling modern agricultural technology, it is now not only benefiting Yangling farmers, but also being promoted to more places in the country.

"It is precisely by relying on innovation-driven development that Yangling has planned the industrial layout path according to local conditions, embarked on a new road of high-quality development, and formed four leading industries of modern seed industry, biomedicine, agricultural product processing, and agricultural machinery and equipment manufacturing, and the agricultural high-tech industry has begun to take shape." The main leader of the management committee of the Yangling demonstration area said.

With the in-depth promotion of the reform of "decentralization service" and the continuous improvement of the business environment, Xianzhengda, Kedihua, Evergrande, Greenland, Wanda, Huawei, as well as a number of fortune-500 enterprises in the world such as Cargill in the United States and Kaimao Group in Argentina have rushed to seize the beach of Yangling, Yangling has become a hot land for enterprises at home and abroad to invest, and industrial clusters with optimized structure, high-end value and outstanding benefits are accelerating the formation of Yangling.

International agricultural cooperation has continued to deepen

In midsummer, as the sun pours hot on the Guanzhong Plain in northwest China, Zhang Zhengmao, a professor at the College of Agronomy at Northwest A&F University, is leading a team to harvest wheat in a test field that is only a few acres in size.

"The descendants of these wheats may be planted in countries along the 'Belt and Road' to meet the needs of their countries for high yield and quality wheat." Wearing a sunhat and sneakers, Zhang Zhengmao carefully walked through the test field with more than 30,000 breeding test materials.

"Last year, four varieties of spring wheat seeds in the China-Kazakhstan Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Park performed prominently, such as 'Xinong No. 10' increasing production by 28.6% compared with local varieties, and 'Xinong No. 12' increasing production by more than 20%." Zhang Zhengmao said, "I am now breeding high-generation wheat, which has drought and cold resistance traits, and will then carry out planting trials in Kazakhstan." ”

Speaking of "going out", Yangling will continuously transport new varieties, new technologies and new models to countries along the Silk Road, where they will take root and blossom and bear fruit... Since 2016, the Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone, located by Northwest A&F University, has become an important platform for China to carry out agricultural science and technology cooperation and exchanges for the "Belt and Road".

Yangling, which introduces external contacts internally, actively integrates into the construction of the "Belt and Road" and continues to inject vitality into the development of the "Belt and Road". At the same time, Yangling seized the opportunity of the "SCO" and focused on building a demonstration base for agricultural technology exchange and training in the SCO.

In the past three years, with the strong support of relevant ministries and commissions of the state and the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, Yangling Demonstration Zone has focused on the core functions of "exchange, training and demonstration", high-standard planning, high starting point construction, and focused on building a new pattern of all-round, wide-ranging and multi-level open agricultural cooperation. There are more than 30 major international exchange activities such as the forum. It has undertaken more than 120 human resources training projects of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology to assist developing countries, and trained more than 3,200 government officials and agricultural scientific research talents for 110 countries. 21 sessions of agricultural foreign aid training and long-distance technical lectures were carried out, and 24,000 trainees participated in the training. The SCO agricultural base is drawing a new blueprint for international cooperation in agriculture that is "based on China, radiating SCO, linking the surrounding areas, and facing the world".

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with the landing of free trade areas, comprehensive insurance zones, and SCO agricultural bases, Yangling is exploring a multi-level, all-round and comprehensive open pattern from a higher level. So far, Yangling has traded with 73 countries and regions, and 85 foreign-funded enterprises have entered the zone, including 17 joint ventures, 25 wholly-owned enterprises, 22 branches, and 21 reinvested enterprises of foreign-funded enterprises, with a total import and export volume of 949 million yuan.

The cause of social and people's livelihood has developed in an all-round

The times are the people who publish the papers, we are the people who answer the papers, and the people are the people who read the papers. Over the past 25 years, Yangling Demonstration Zone has always put the people-centered development thinking through all aspects of the economy and society, focusing on improving the level of people's livelihood security, accelerating the completion of the shortcomings of the people's livelihood, focusing on the needs and expectations of the people, solving the pain points and difficulties of the people's livelihood, and bringing more sense of gain and happiness to the people.

While maintaining high-quality economic development, Yangling has made overall plans to promote industrial development and social and people's livelihood, and achieved a "high value" of full color, both inside and outside:

A batch of people's livelihood projects benefiting the people have been completed; The introduction of famous schools such as Yangling Experimental Middle School of Shaanxi Normal University and the establishment of medical associations with many well-known hospitals in Xi'an have alleviated the problems of the people's difficulty in going to school and seeking medical treatment; Achieve full coverage of rural happiness homes; The ecological environment continues to improve, the traffic road network is in all directions, the creation of "no black and no evil" is solidly promoted, and the development and safety are promoted as a whole...

The coordinated development of industry and people's livelihood has been accelerated, and the coordinated promotion of Yangling's economic development and ecological construction has also been further increased.

Strolling through the Yangling Weihe Wetland Park, looking up at the Qinling Mountains in the south, looking down is the agile Weihe River, the sparkling water surface, and everywhere you look is a poetic picture of beautiful mountains and clear waters. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", Yangling has taken the continuous promotion of the improvement of the quality of the ecological environment as the core, controlled the water in the whole region, rejuvenated the city with clear water, introduced an action plan, promoted the implementation of the river chief system, and strict systems and powerful measures to promote the obvious improvement of the ecological environment.

The effectiveness of water control reflects Yang Ling's vivid practice of planning the construction of ecological civilization for a long time. Over the years, Yangling has accelerated the top-level design and institutional system construction of ecological civilization, vigorously promoted pollution control, achieved obvious results in green development, continuously improved the quality of the ecological environment, ranked among the best in the province in terms of comprehensive environmental treatment results, and the outbound water quality of Yangling in weihe River reached three categories, and the groundwater quality compliance rate was 100%.

Blue sky and white clouds, flowers and plants. Citizens reveled in the ecological beauty of Agricultural Science City and praised the changes in Yangling's ecological environment: "Now the sky in Yangling is getting bluer, the air is fresher, and the heart has become more open. ”

In the past 25 years, the integration of urban and rural areas in Yangling has been continuously promoted, and the overall economic strength has been significantly enhanced, and the GDP of the whole region in 2020 has increased by 41 times compared with 1997, the investment in fixed assets in the whole society has increased by 117 times, the total fiscal income has increased by 238 times, and the people's sense of gain, happiness and security has been significantly improved.

From 1997 to 2022, a quarter of a century, time has witnessed the advance: Yangling's original intention of standing on the mission of the "national team" is still strong, the results in various fields such as scientific and technological innovation, achievement transformation, and international cooperation have been continuously consolidated, and the people's well-being has been greatly improved... Standing at a new historical starting point for the 25th anniversary of the construction of the demonstration area, Yangling ushered in a new period of development.

With lingyun ambition in mind, set sail again. The main leader of the Party Working Committee of the Yangling Demonstration Zone said that the Yangling Demonstration Zone will fully implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, thoroughly implement the "five requirements" and "five solids", base itself on the positioning of the "national team", emancipate the mind, reform and innovation, redouble efforts, promote the demonstration zone to fulfill its national mission at a higher level, serve the national strategy, achieve high-quality development, strive to create a new situation of innovation-driven, demonstration and leading agricultural and rural modernization, and greet the victory of the party's twenty major victories with excellent results.

(Yang Yaojun, Hou Bo, Geng Suqiang)

Source: Shaanxi Daily

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