"Through the introduction of water-soluble nano micro-fertilizer developed by us and the improvement of cultivation methods, the yield of local bamboo shoots has increased from 100 catties per mu to 500 catties, and the income of farmers has also increased, from 400 yuan per mu of bamboo shoots planting income to more than 2,000 yuan at present." Teachers and students from Southwest University of Science and Technology introduced the scientific research and application results of Sichuan Ebian Bamboo Shoot Science and Technology Academy.
According to Long Zhijian, a teacher at the Sichuan Ebian Bamboo Shoot Science and Technology Academy, with the continuous increase in local bamboo shoot production, the work of teachers and students in the courtyard will extend from the front-end planting technology research to terminal sales. "We plan to put bamboo shoots and related prefabricated food products on the e-commerce platform to promote further sales of bamboo shoots and help local Yi compatriots increase their income and become rich." Long Zhijian said.
On May 7, at the 2024 National Science and Technology Academy, more than 1,000 experts, scholars, and business representatives from national ministries and commissions, local governments, 213 universities and research institutes across the country gathered together to share the achievements of the construction of the science and technology courtyard and discuss the development plan of the courtyard.
The scene of the 2024 National Science and Technology Academy Conference. Photo courtesy of the Organizing Committee of the conference
In the exhibition area of the science and technology academies of the conference, science and technology academies from all over the country have posted "report cards". They are rooted in the front line of agricultural production, and focus on solving the problem of "hot coke difficulty" by introducing scientific research results. At the same time, due to the lack of talent, experience or infrastructure, agricultural research technology faces the challenge of difficult to promote.
On the same day, the conference released the "National Science and Technology Academy Development Report (2024)", which summarized the history and achievements of the science and technology courtyard from five aspects: the original origin, development process, construction effectiveness, construction mode and future prospects, and pointed out that the combination with the industry and the market is not close enough, and the large-scale application of scientific and technological achievements is one of the challenges facing the construction of the current science and technology courtyard.
In order to help cultivate new farmers who are familiar with agricultural production and master new marketing technologies, and explore the technology demonstration and promotion model for small farmers, Hou Kaidi, the representative of the conference supporters and vice president of Pinduoduo, announced at the meeting that Pinduoduo will join hands with the team of academician Zhang Fusuo of China Agricultural University to launch the "Science and Technology Academy to Strengthen Agriculture and Rejuvenate Agricultural Talent Training Action Plan", jointly explore the "learning-research-business" public welfare talent training model, build a "Whampoa Military Academy" for cultivating agricultural compound talents, and boost the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
This is another important measure launched by Pinduoduo to help cultivate innovative new farmers after supporting the Science and Technology Academy Competition for two consecutive years.
"Government, industry, academia, research and application" integration and joint construction of science and technology courtyards
In 2009, Zhang Fusuo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor of China Agricultural University, led a scientific research team to establish the country's first science and technology institute in Quzhou County, Hebei Province. Over the years, a courtyard, a few bungalows, three or two students have almost become the "standard" of the science and technology courtyard, although the scale is small, but relying on this courtyard, the tentacles of agricultural research have stretched from the laboratory to the front line of "three rural", realizing the seamless connection between agricultural research and production practice, scientific research and farmers, scientific research institutes and rural areas, scientific and technological innovation and industrial development.
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Education, the construction of China's science and technology academies has achieved remarkable results. At present, 157 postgraduate training units across the country have actively participated in the construction of more than 1,800 science and technology academies, covering 31 provincial-level administrative regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. In addition, the Science and Technology Academy has also been promoted to Laos and 11 African countries, and has been promoted and applied globally by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as a key case for three consecutive years.
At the conference, Wu Kongming, a member of the party group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and president of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, pointed out that at present, the mainland's comprehensive agricultural production capacity has taken a big step forward, and the materials and equipment, disaster resistance capacity, and production organization methods have been greatly improved compared with the past. On the whole, more than 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland has been built across the country, more than half of the farmland has achieved "drought irrigation and waterlogging drainage", and the production of wheat, rice, and corn has basically realized the whole process of mechanization, of which the mechanization rate of wheat exceeds 95%.
Wu Kongming said that the science and technology courtyard is an important starting point for focusing on the work of agriculture, agriculture and agriculture, and hopes to focus on the high-level increase in the production of grain and basic agricultural products and promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Long Zhijian, a teacher from Sichuan Ebian Bamboo Shoot Science and Technology Academy, introduced the application of agricultural research in the courtyard at the booth. Photo by Shu Sen
In mid-April, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the China Association for Science and Technology and other three departments launched the second batch of science and technology institutes and science and technology courtyard cluster support construction work, in the national grain and important agricultural products in the main producing areas of science and technology courtyards, etc., to carry out the layout of science and technology courtyards, with the intention of promoting the "four expansions", "from the leading universities to the 'government, industry, academia, research and application' integration and co-construction" is the meaning of the topic.
Tang Jiwei, a first-level inspector of the Department of Degree Management and Graduate Education of the Ministry of Education, said at the meeting that it is necessary to give full play to the role of universities, local governments, social organizations, enterprises and other subjects in the construction and development of science and technology colleges, systematically lay out the cluster network of science and technology colleges, improve and implement the incentive policies for the coordinated development of various small college clusters, and realize the cross-integration of disciplines and specialties, resource sharing, complementary advantages, multi-party interaction and collaboration, and realize the function of "1+1>2".
If the science and technology institute was intended to solve the hot spots, focal points and difficult problems of agricultural production in the past, then in the new stage of the construction of the courtyard, the tentacles of the courtyard will extend to the large-scale application of agricultural research technology and the marketization of scientific research agricultural products.
The Digital Business Xingnong Academy helps to explore the model model model of agricultural research and promotion
How to solve the problem of agricultural research technology extension for the majority of small farmers?
At the parallel forum on the 8th, Wang Chong, vice president and professor of the College of Resources and Environment of China Agricultural University, made a report entitled "Cooperation between Science and Technology Colleges and Enterprises to Help the Revitalization of Industry and Talents", Wang Chong shared the existing exploration experience of how the Science and Technology Academy serves enterprises and industries, and fully affirmed the important role played by enterprises in promoting talent training and promoting agricultural research technology.
Wang Chong announced that China Agricultural University and Pinduoduo will jointly launch the "Science and Technology Academy to Strengthen Agriculture and Rejuvenate Agriculture Talent Training Action Plan", and the two sides will build a digital business and agricultural courtyard in Gusheng Village, Dali, Yunnan Province, and rely on this to build a "Whampoa Military Academy" for the cultivation of high-quality compound talents in agriculture.
According to reports, the Digital Business Xingnong Science and Technology Institute plans to be put into construction within the year, participate in the cluster construction of the Erhai River Basin Pollution Prevention and Control and Green Production Increase Science and Technology Institute of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the China Association for Science and Technology, and include it in the cluster declaration, and give full play to the advantages of school-local-enterprise multi-party cooperation. Through the training of new farmers, scientific forums and other means, we will cultivate compound innovative talents who not only understand front-end scientific research and technology promotion, but also can use Internet and other technologies for back-end sales.
Wang Chong said that with the blessing of the Digital Business and Agricultural Academy, the Erhai River Basin Pollution Prevention and Control and Green Production Increase Science and Technology Courtyard Cluster will deliberately explore the technology demonstration and promotion model for small farmers, form a "Dali model", and provide model experience for future policy introduction.
In addition, according to Hou Kaidi, the "Action Plan for Strengthening Agriculture and Rejuvenating Agricultural Talents in Science and Technology Courtyards" will give full play to the advantages of Pinduoduo and China Agricultural University, and launch three measures for science and technology institutes across the country to help science and technology institutes around the country form system solutions covering the whole industry chain and the whole process according to local conditions, including:
First, at least 10 high-quality scientific research projects and topics will be supported by universities and research institutes across the country, and the two sides will provide scientific research funds and technical support;
Second, the two sides will make use of their own advantages and resources to build a platform for the students of the Science and Technology Academy to exchange and learn from each other by carrying out various offline public welfare activities such as academic salons, seminars, new farmer training, and e-commerce to help farmers, with no less than 10 related activities per year;
Third, the project will solicit the needs of production, learning, research and business docking from the national science and technology academy team to promote the effective flow of social resources. By helping the scientific research achievements of the science and technology institute to be incubated, as well as the precise production and marketing docking of agricultural products, we will further help high-quality scientific and technological agricultural products form a virtuous cycle of supply and demand.
Hou Kaidi said: "Agronomy is the most down-to-earth science. With the deepening of the practice of the platform in the field of agriculture, we have found that only by producing quality and increasing efficiency of agricultural production can the countryside be revitalized and farmers become rich, and the prosperity is hidden in agricultural research. This is also the reason why the platform actively participates in front-end agricultural science and technology innovation, with the aim of improving the efficiency of agricultural production through science and technology, and enhancing the added value and market competitiveness of agricultural products. ”
As the largest uplink platform for agricultural products in China, Pinduoduo has actively participated in agricultural science and technology innovation in recent years to help the transformation of agricultural scientific research. In addition to supporting the Science and Technology Academy Competition for two consecutive years, it also uses its strong supply chain forging capabilities to help turn the agricultural products supported by the Science and Technology Academy into explosive products and send them to thousands of households.
For example, in 2019, Chu Cheng reached a strategic cooperation with Pinduoduo. In order to help Chu Cheng expand its sales channels, Pinduoduo has given strong support through tens of billions of subsidies and other means. In November 2023, the platform cooperated with CCTV News to conduct a live broadcast of the Expo, and Chu Cheng became one of the 7 fruits on the shelves. Another "famous orange", "Ehime No. 38", which is the focus of the Danling Orange Science and Technology Academy, has opened sales channels on the Pinduoduo platform in recent years, and many local fruit farmers have opened online stores to directly serve consumers.
"Talent is the 'spark' that changes the face of China's rural areas. Pinduoduo will continue to take root in the front line, focus on the problem of 'hot scorching' in agricultural production and application, give full play to the advantages of the platform to help agricultural research innovation, help the cultivation of high-quality compound talents, and further promote the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. Hou Kaidi said at the conference.