Early in the morning of April 24, Gao Wencheng, the science and technology commissioner of Helan County, hurried to Xinping Village, Xigang Town, Helan County. He was responsible for instructing Zhang Jianhua to order flowers for tomatoes. This spring, 146 science and technology commissioners from Helan County were busy in the fields to lay a solid foundation for the autumn harvest.
Gao Wencheng (left) and Zhang Jianhua (right) inspect the growth of cucumbers.
Gao Wencheng is a native of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, graduated from Sichuan Agricultural University with a master's degree, and has successively applied for the production base of DuPont in the United States and a company in Shandong in Ningxia, and is now the technical director of Delin Fruit and Vegetable Professional Cooperative in Xinping Village, Xigang Town, Helan County, and will become a science and technology correspondent of Helan County in 2023. Zhang Jianhua is a native of Ligang Town, Helan County, and when Gao Wencheng invited him to come to Xigang Town to grow greenhouse vegetables, Zhang Jianhua had concerns. Gao Wencheng said: "I will teach you to plant, and I will underwrite it for you." So, Zhang Jianhua followed Gao Wencheng to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans. There is no wind in the tomato greenhouse, and there are no insects such as bees, which need to be pollinated by hand. On the same day, Zhang Jianhua invited 4 female flower workers. Although the flower potion had already been bought, everyone still had to wait for Gao Wencheng to guide them.
Renderings of high-quality freshwater fish germplasm resource field in Yinchuan City.
Ningxia Xinming Runyuan Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., located in Hongguang Town, Helan County, has taken shape after a month of infrastructure construction, and the high-quality freshwater fish germplasm resource farm in Yinchuan City has emerged. The project is invested by the state of 11.5 million yuan, to build internal testing room, cultivation pool, incubation room, reservoir, water treatment system, heat pump system and other facilities. Wang Xujun, the general manager of the company, is also a science and technology correspondent in Helan County.
Helan County currently has 146 science and technology correspondents. Among them, there are 106 legal person science and technology commissioners like Wang Xujun, 24 high-skilled talents from universities and research institutes, and 16 others like Gao Wencheng. Science and technology correspondents have become the backbone of Helan County's rural revitalization, they have established 98 demonstration sites, directly cultivated more than 270,000 acres of land, accounting for 38.5% of the county's planting area, and served 65 villages in 5 townships and towns in the county, with a coverage rate of 100%.
Helan County has taken a variety of measures to "whip fast cattle". Let them undertake forward-looking research and development tasks, such as Nian Xuewen undertakes the research and development of "Ningchun No. 61 advantage utilization and supporting two-cropping multiple cropping technology". Speed up the transfer of help and guidance, so that more farmers can improve their skills. Zhang Jinhe is an expert in edible fungus cultivation, and Helan County relies on him to hold training courses on edible fungus cultivation technology, influencing and driving more than 70 enterprises and individuals to improve edible fungus cultivation technology. Matchmaking, so that the correspondent can grow rapidly. Xu Jun's specialty is sea bass farming, and Helan County introduced the Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences to further expand the scale of his aquaculture; Wang Meijun has the advantage of supplying vegetables to Hong Kong, and Helan County has promoted him to cooperate with Tianjin University of Commerce to build a standardized pre-cooling production line, which has reduced the rot rate of cold vegetables by 30 percent.
"The science and technology correspondent is not a lifelong system, and if the role is not obvious, we will be dismissed, and we fired 14 people last year. The relevant person in charge of Helan County Science and Technology and Industry and Information Technology Bureau said.