Accelerate the construction of the backbone force for the revitalization of the seed industry -- the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs answered reporters' questions on the development of the national seed industry array enterprises

Beijing, 8 Aug (Xinhua) -- Speeding up the building of a backbone force for the revitalization of the seed industry -- relevant responsible persons of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs answered reporters' questions on the development of the state's seed industry array enterprises

Xinhua News Agency reporter Yu Wenjing

The General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently issued a notice on supporting the development of national seed industry array enterprises, and announced the list of 270 crop, livestock and poultry, aquatic seed industry enterprises and specialized platform enterprises (institutions). Why is this list published? What is the role of ensuring the supply of "rice bags" and "vegetable baskets" products? How to support excellent enterprises in the future? Responsible persons of the Department of Seed Industry Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Fisheries and Fisheries Administration Bureau, and the National Animal Husbandry Station answered reporters' questions on the 8th.

(Subtitle) To be an excellent and strong leading enterprise

Q: Why is the list of national seed industry enterprises published? How to support excellent enterprises?

Answer: The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the development of seed industry enterprises. To make the seed industry bigger and stronger, we must be better and stronger A number of seed industry leading enterprises with integrated innovation capabilities and adapting to market demand, focus on building a national seed industry enterprise formation, and accelerate the creation of a backbone force for the revitalization of the seed industry. Through the support of seed industry enterprises, promote the self-reliance and self-improvement of seed industry science and technology, realize the independent control of seed sources, and enhance the international competitiveness of the seed industry.

The mainland crops are planted 10 billion kilograms per year, and the breeding industry needs more than 600 million piglets, 15 billion chicks and 6 trillion aquatic fry every year, the vast majority of which come from enterprises. Only by allowing more advantageous enterprises with their own varieties to become suppliers of the seed industry market, promoters of variety renewal, and leaders of industrial integration can we truly realize the independent control of seed sources.

Supporting the development of seed industry enterprises is a long-term and basic work, which is inseparable from the strong support of all aspects of various localities and departments. We will make joint efforts to support the docking of scientific research units and array enterprises, encourage financial institutions to connect with array enterprises, promote the docking of seed industry bases and array enterprises, actively create support policies, establish enterprise contact mechanisms, and purify the seed industry market environment.

Ensuring national food security

Q: How will the crop species industry enterprises ensure food security?

A: In mainland crop production, 80% of the seeds are provided by enterprises. The 69 array enterprises selected from more than 7,000 agricultural crop seed industry enterprises this time can be said to be the breeders' force to ensure national food security.

In terms of ensuring the absolute safety of rations, 19 advantageous enterprises such as Longping Hi-Tech and Zhongnongfa Seed Industry were shortlisted, focusing on the two major ration crops of rice and wheat, building a "strong advantage" enterprise formation, consolidating and strengthening the ability of breeding innovation through the establishment and improvement of the commercial breeding system, accelerating the cultivation of a number of breakthrough breeding materials and new varieties, and improving the level of output and quality.

In terms of ensuring the production and supply of other grains and important agricultural products, 32 advantageous enterprises such as Syngenta Group China and Beidahuang Kenfeng were shortlisted, focusing on important crops such as corn, soybeans, cotton, rapeseed, potatoes, etc., building a "short board" enterprise formation, fully tapping excellent germplasm resources, fully applying modern breeding technology, accelerating the improvement of variety yield, quality and resistance level, and narrowing the gap with the international advanced level.

In terms of satisfying the people's better life, 18 advantageous enterprises such as Jingyan Yinong and Tianjin Deruite were shortlisted, focusing on imported seed sources such as facility vegetables, broccoli, onions, and white enoki mushrooms, building a "problem-breaking" enterprise formation, introducing excellent germplasm resources, promoting the close integration of production, education and research, and accelerating the breeding of independent varieties.

Accelerate the development of the livestock and poultry breeding industry

Q: What is the main direction of the livestock and poultry breeding industry?

Answer: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the livestock and poultry breeding industry in the mainland has made great progress, and at present, the main core breeds of livestock and poultry originate from the rate of giving more than 75%, and the contribution rate of fine seeds to the development of animal husbandry has exceeded 40%. This time, we selected 86 array enterprises from more than 8,000 livestock and poultry breeding enterprises.

For the import-dependent breeding source, mainly the white feather broiler, the selection of Fujian Shengnong, Xinguang Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Ward Chenlong Biological 3 leading enterprises, the main task is to continue to improve the performance level of independent breeding varieties, accelerate the application of industrialization, and strive to gradually improve market competitiveness and market share through 5 to 10 years of efforts, to achieve independent control of seed sources.

In view of the breeding sources that have a gap with the advanced level of foreign countries, mainly pigs, dairy cows, beef cattle and sheep, 48 leading enterprises in the livestock breeding industry such as Wen's Food, Shounong Animal Husbandry, Henan Dingyuan, Tianjin Aoqun and so on are selected, and the main task is to carry out joint research on breeding in depth, accelerate the application of modern breeding technology, comprehensively improve the level of breeding innovation, and strive to narrow the gap with the international advanced level as soon as possible in terms of feed conversion rate, litter production and other major production performance.

For the breeding sources with competitive advantages, mainly layer chickens, yellow feather broilers and ducks, the main task of selecting 21 leading poultry breeding enterprises such as Beijing Yukou and Shandong Yisheng is to establish and improve the commercial breeding system, accelerate the cultivation of a number of new varieties, improve the level of output and quality, and continue to maintain the competitive advantage of seed sources.

Focus on the needs of the aquaculture industry

Q: What are the characteristics of the aquatic seed industry array enterprises?

Answer: The selection of enterprises in the aquatic seed industry, adhering to the demand-oriented and problem-oriented, selected 121 from more than 19,000 enterprises, mainly in the following three aspects:

The first is to focus on key species. The mainland is a big aquaculture country, this time with an output of more than 500,000 tons or an output value of more than 10 billion yuan as the standard, from freshwater fish, marine fish, shrimp and crabs, turtles and turtles, frogs, shellfish, algae, echinoderms, selected 45 bulk, characteristic aquaculture species as key species.

The second is to focus on industrial needs. "Problem-breaking" array enterprises focus on species that are difficult to breed, artificial breeding technology has not yet been broken, or large-scale seedling technology has not yet been established, and the seed source depends on imports, and it is necessary to achieve breakthroughs in breeding materials and technology; The "short board" array enterprises focus on species that have a certain foundation for breeding but have a low market share of cultivated varieties, and should improve the quality level of varieties; The "strong advantage" array enterprises focus on species with a good breeding foundation and strong market competitiveness of varieties, and some can participate in international competition, and establish and improve the commercial breeding system.

The third is to focus on key links. At present, the mainland has reached the world's advanced level in the research and application of modern breeding technologies such as molecular marker-assisted breeding and genome-wide selective breeding. This time, specialized platform enterprises (institutions) were also selected to provide strong support for promoting cooperation between science and technology enterprises, improving the joint breeding mechanism, and accelerating breeding innovation. (End)