China has been the world's leading agricultural country since ancient times, and if China's agriculture does not develop, then there will be huge turmoil in global agriculture. Therefore, our country's successive rulers regard agricultural development as the foundation of the country, and the food crops in agricultural development are the national strategic material base, which can not be forgotten at any time, even if the current economic development to the world's second highest level, we still can not ignore agricultural food crops, must be followed to the advanced level of the times, so that for the Chinese people is an explanation, in order to ensure long-term peace
The history of cotton cultivation in China
Cotton this plant began to be introduced to China from the Han Dynasty, the main source of Chinese clothes in the Han Dynasty is "hemp" and "kudzu" plants, this type of plant after multiple processes will be woven into the people's bed numb clothes, but this kind of clothes are quite stiff, every day when wearing it needs to be beaten hard to be slightly softer, until the Northern Song Dynasty after the introduction of advanced cotton textile technology, so that cotton clothes into the bottom of the people's households.
Huang Daoba in the Yuan Dynasty is as the representative of the Hainan people who mastered advanced cotton textile planting technology at the bottom, she introduced this type of technology into the Central Plains and promoted it to the whole of China, directly changed the dressing habits of the entire Chinese, in the past, Chinese dressing was mainly linen, Gebu clothes, winter cold effect is very poor, often wear a lot of heavy on the line, but from the cotton textile technology advanced, cotton filling is no longer the patent of the nobility, the bottom people can also enjoy soft and warm cotton.
Since the Yuan Dynasty, because of the huge role of cotton, it has directly changed from a less popular wild plant to an important pillar of China's agricultural cash crops, cotton is the focus of Chinese agriculture, but from the end of the Qing Dynasty, after the deterioration of China's natural environment, cotton began to produce a natural enemy, his name is "cotton bollworm". In the past, when China treated cotton bolls infestation, all people were artificial, that is, people were used to grab this bug with both hands and strangle it, but when the manpower is exhausted, the harm can never be solved.
Since the late seventies of the last century, in order to cope with the great harm caused by bollworm to cotton, Chinese agricultural experts began to introduce Western pesticides for indiscriminate spraying, hoping to kill bollworm by breaking roots. When this kind of method is used, the effect is very good, three or five years and the like have achieved a bumper harvest of cotton, but with the long-term use of pesticides, a strong "resistance" has begun to appear among the descendants of cotton bollworm, and the past pesticide has been helpless to the descendants of cotton bollworm, at this time the question comes, how to treat bollworm?
A turning point in cotton farming
For the cotton bollworm that produces drug resistance, some Chinese farmers choose to increase the dose of pesticides to deal with, but after all, this is only a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, the next generation of bollworm will be more resistant, and too many pesticides will directly endanger the production of cotton itself, directly causing cotton production to decrease, for a period of time in many places cotton industry has decreased production, and those cotton bollworms eat more than one fat, has become the heart of the Chinese people.
At this time, an American from across the ocean came to China with their own research on "genetically modified cotton seeds", they claimed that this genetically modified cotton seeds are naturally immune to bollworms, which can solve the harm of China's cotton planting once and for all, at that time China was suffering from the pest of cotton bollworm and suffered huge losses, so some negotiations were held with the relevant departments and the person in charge of this company to understand the situation, but at this time there were also sober people thinking, will US imperialism really be so kind to come over specifically to help us solve trouble? It's a blessing that they don't fall into the hole.
After negotiations, it was found that the Americans were selling genetically modified insect-resistant cotton seeds for $100 million, and although they knew that the Americans at that time were asking for a price, some people were still willing to accept it, believing that as long as the harm of bollworm was solved, China would definitely recover the cost in a few decades. But at this time, Guo Sandui, an agricultural expert in our country, began to oppose it in a hurry, and he saw that his former staunch comrades-in-arms had fallen into the arms of the US imperialism one by one, and in the process of doubt, he began to explain the pros and cons for everyone.
Guo Sandui believes that Americans are not just to make money so simple, if China accepts the requirements of the Americans, then in the future China's land cotton industry will be replaced with American cotton seeds, then we will have a demand, the entire cotton industry needs to go to Americans every year where to buy seeds, the result is that the Chinese cotton industry is directly controlled by the United States. What if a war breaks out in the future and the Americans don't supply us with cotton seeds? Are people all over China waiting to freeze in winter without cotton clothes?
At this time, Guo Sandui said that since the Americans can research and develop insect-resistant cotton seeds, then China must also be able to, but there are still some experts who firmly fell to the United States questioned, thinking that China had no experience and technology at that time, even if they wanted to do research, they did not know when to do it, agricultural experts could afford to wait, but thousands of "Chinese cotton farmers" could afford to wait?
Under the insistence of this group of people who fell to the United States and wanted to introduce U.S. cotton seeds, the entire atmosphere of the venue began to fall into a stalemate again, and finally the situation split, some experts still insisted on introducing U.S. cotton seeds, but they were controlled to a small range of implementation, and Guo Sandui and others began to study day and night to do experiments, they firmly believe that in the past, the Americans stuck Chinese no atomic bomb's neck, Chinese scientists still made their own atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs, and now Americans stuck Chinese cotton, We can too.
China independently develops cotton seeds
After more than a year of working day and night, the Chinese cotton agriculture native school with Guo Sandui as the core finally developed the first generation of insect-resistant cotton seeds independently manufactured in China, which was a great initiative at the time, because it was the first country other than the United States to have such insect-resistant cotton seeds. By 1994, China's local cotton worm seeds had been put into use by thousands of households, and the effect of this batch of products against pests was quite good.
According to the statistics of the year, even more than the 100 million US dollars of insect-resistant cotton seeds imported from the United States, at this time the group of agricultural experts who advocated the use of American cotton seeds began to be afraid, but they still released wild claims that in only 5 years, the whole of China will use American bollseeds, and began to smear China's self-produced insect-resistant cotton seeds in terms of yield is no match for American seeds.
Finally, the relevant departments of national agriculture carried out a scientific comparison of planting and harvesting effects on land under the same conditions, and found that China's self-produced cotton seeds far exceeded American cotton seeds in terms of yield and pest resistance. But at this time, many places in China have used American seeds, in order to ensure the strategic security of China's agriculture, the state finally spent a huge price to launch the "National High-tech Industrialization Biotechnology Special - Transgenic Insect-resistant Cotton Seed Industrialization" national debt project.
In the form of issuing government bonds, the American seeds in the hands of farmers were gradually recovered, and all were replaced with insect-resistant cotton seeds independently produced in China. Finally, by 2003, China's insect-resistant cotton seeds in the domestic planting area has fully surpassed the United States, becoming the largest planting range of seeds, in this process we see the older generation of scientists with Guo Sandui and others selfless dedication spirit, but also see some agricultural scientists in the admiration of the foreign atmosphere, almost endangering China's cotton industry, become eternal sinners.
epilogue
Guo Sandui and other older generation of scientists in the spirit of independence, selfless dedication, vigilance against foreign enemies is exactly what our era lacks, when the huge price of $100 million paid for the introduction of American seeds became a painful lesson, and also made many people realize that everything needs to be their own, relying on others to develop the cotton industry is a castle in the air, Americans say do not provide you with seeds, then China's cotton industry will say that it will fall down, fortunately there were those scientists, otherwise it is really unimaginable.