"Shangxiang Youth", "Senior Lying Guest", "Chafan Expert", "E Person I", ...... There are countless labels for young people on the Internet, which one can portray their true appearance?
In this new era of challenges and hopes, there is no definition of "young people" and should not be defined.
On June 24th and 25th, the first agricultural reality show "Debut! The release of "Science and Technology Courtyard" broke all kinds of labels, allowing more people to see a group of Chinese young people who are different from the past and different from "Internet stereotypes".
After helping Uncle Li collect the lettuce, the research group chatted with the students of the Gusheng Village Science and Technology Academy in the field. ("Let's make your debut!") Courtesy of Science and Technology Courtyard)
In the program, in Gusheng Village, which is "probably the village with the highest density of highly educated people in China", there are graduate students who become "stinky treasures" and form "waste partners" to find the mystery of nourishing the land in the classified garbage; Some doctoral students have already mastered the secrets of collecting lettuce and taught for the "Older Research Group". In addition, the research group also communicated with the "Ten Diligent Days" in the program "Let's Farm the Land" to discuss the application of new agricultural technologies and agricultural and rural development.
After the broadcast of the two episodes, the two episodes quickly attracted a lot of attention on the Internet, and #出道吧科技小院#同名话题在社交平台阅读量破千万, #村民大叔田里劝学生别学农#等节目相关话题阅读数均达到百万级, #十个勤天谈做大做强农业#话题登上热搜, and the kitchen waste composting method and ridge mulching cultivation technology developed by the students of the Science and Technology Academy were widely studied and discussed.
"The purpose of inviting the research group to experience the science and technology academy is to hope that more people can pay attention to the science and technology academy, agricultural students, and agriculture through the experience of the research group and reality shows." Talking about the original intention of launching and supporting this agricultural reality show, Hou Kaidi, vice president of Pinduoduo, said that the development of agriculture cannot rely on alone, and requires interdisciplinary, cross-professional, cross-industry and cross-industry cooperation.
To solve people's livelihood and manage culture, the "young people of the small courtyard" walked into the science and technology courtyard with the topics of study and life, and took out the fruits of their own cultivation from the soil, looking for the answer to life, and understanding China's present and future. The Science and Technology Academy is setting off another fresh scene in rural China—it connects the city and the countryside, the students and the old farmers, the campus and the market, life and ecology, and the dream and reality.
Ten years of sharpening the sword, the science and technology courtyard has three things
The science and technology courtyard has been in a place where no one cares, and has been working silently for more than 10 years.
The Science and Technology Academy was pioneered by Zhang Fusuo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of China Agricultural University, and his team in Quzhou County, Hebei Province in 2009, aiming to provide farmers with "zero distance, zero time difference, zero threshold, zero cost" scientific and technological services, and also provide students with a broad scientific research platform.
Today, the service model of the science and technology courtyard has developed from the original 1.0 model of science and technology to help one family and one household, and the 2.0 model of industrial agriculture, to the 3.0 model of multidisciplinary interdisciplinary and multi-subject collaboration to comprehensively help rural revitalization. At present, the science and technology courtyard has expanded to more than 1,000 villages in 31 provinces across the country, and even went abroad and promoted to Laos and Africa and other regions.
Gusheng Village Science and Technology Courtyard (photo provided by the interviewee)
"We should regard the science and technology courtyard as a model for serving the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. In the future, the science and technology courtyard should not only be aimed at small farmers and update traditional production technology, but also connect with modern industries and modern enterprises. Lin Wanlong, vice president of China Agricultural University, said.
Rural revitalization is not only a matter for farmers, nor is it just a matter for agricultural researchers. Agriculture, rural areas, and farmers need to be seen by more people. Pinduoduo strives to be this "wall breaker".
"If we say that the science and technology courtyard has demolished the wall between the school and the society, the wall between disciplines, the wall between teaching and scientific research, and the wall between teaching and learning. We also want to tear down a wall – the wall between research and the market. Hou Kaidi said.
Since 2020, the Science and Technology Academy has introduced a competition mechanism to select outstanding case projects of strengthening agriculture with science and technology through the National Graduate Innovation and Practice Competition. And Pinduoduo has also been a supporter of the event for two consecutive years. In addition, Pinduoduo also hopes to use the competition as a bridge to go deep into the production area, deepen cooperation with front-line young scientific research workers, and play a greater role in helping advanced technology go to the countryside, transform scientific research achievements and connect the production and consumption of high-quality agricultural products.
A common cause stems from deep recognition.
"I hope that more young people will join the team of helping farmers." Hou Kaidi said that as an enterprise with agriculture as its basic plate, Pinduoduo will increase its support for science and technology institutes in the future, and work together with China Agricultural University and other social forces to give full play to its strengths, so that the lives of rural areas and farmers will be better and better.
The Science and Technology Academy has played a huge role in talent training, scientific and technological innovation, social services, etc., and Pinduoduo has always attached importance to the industrial application of scientific research achievements. The science and technology courtyard focuses on letting scientific research go out and go to the next line, and Pinduoduo also hopes that the small courtyard model will go deeper and go to more people. The two sides have the same path and go in the same direction.
Grow up differently and walk into the depths of rural China
Jin Kemo, who is determined to run on the road of scientific research, is now deeply in love with the fields of Gusheng Village. She originally only wanted to stay for six months, but now she is planning a longer-term future for the courtyard. She laughed and said that she was "brainwashed" by her mentor Academician Zhang Fusuo.
"Go to the front line and do something useful for the country and the people." At first, Jin Kemo was puzzled and hesitant about Academician Zhang's persuasion. After some "extreme pulling", the choice settled when Jin Kemo knocked on the door of Academician Zhang, "I want to challenge myself." In 2022, Jin Kemo, an associate professor at the College of Resources and Environment at China Agricultural University, became the head of the Gusheng Village Science and Technology Academy.
Dali Gusheng Village Science and Technology Academy won the first prize in the finals of the second "Pinduoduo Cup" Science and Technology Academy Competition. "In school, it is difficult to understand the real situation in the field, and sometimes it is 'on paper'. In the science and technology courtyard, you can mingle with farmers to dig out and solve problems in actual production. ”
Confusion was the initial problem that Kim and her more than a dozen students faced. Where to start with the 3.0+ model of high-level comprehensive layout of science and technology courtyards? To explore the green transformation of agriculture and the protection of Erhai Lake, where is the entry point?
Jin Kemo's strategy is to attack the heart first, and the landing is real. "It doesn't matter what you plant, it's important how you plant, this is the concept that our team wants to pass on the most." She took the students to dance square dances with the villagers to make friends, and turned over garbage at the entrance of houses and villages to collect samples for testing; In cooperation with colleagues from various disciplines, government and enterprise units, the establishment of science and technology courtyard clusters not only promotes the construction of local non-point source pollution precision prevention and control system, the application and promotion of green high-value planting models, but also tries to develop local food, folk customs and other agricultural tourism projects in the mode of humanities and science and technology courtyards.
In the process of in-depth front-line work, visits and services, the teachers and students of the Science and Technology Academy found an increasingly prominent problem: the fault line of agricultural talents. "In agriculture, feelings come first." Jin Kemo is now thinking more about how to retain the batches of talents cultivated by the small courtyard.
Growth is often accompanied by some kind of awakening of consciousness. The word that is most heard in the mouths of "young people in small courtyards" is "our village".
The Gusheng Village Science and Technology Courtyard is just a microcosm of the thousands of science and technology courtyards across the country. "Everyone is working on a real production problem, and our paper is also from the labor production of the orchard, seeking breakthroughs in data monitoring and experiments." Talking about the experience in Chucheng Science and Technology Academy, Quan Tielin, a graduate student of China Agricultural University, has a shining eye, and like her brothers and sisters, she has found a sense of accomplishment in life in taking root in the front line, communicating with farmers, and explaining technology.
"The small courtyard has not only brought me scientific research benefits, but also the improvement of comprehensive ability. In this process, we also have a clearer understanding and choice of our future. Zhang Lijun, a graduate student at Southwest University, focuses on acidic soil improvement. Her Danling Orange Science and Technology Courtyard designed an acidic soil conditioner and built a set of healthy soil and a green production model for energy conservation and emission reduction in citrus orchards, which was recommended to local enterprises and farmers. The result was Ehime 38, which was of stable quality and was very popular in the market.
"At school, my life is like a laboratory and a dormitory, but in the small courtyard, I need to communicate with farmers and learn from each other. Communicate with cooperative enterprises to develop green and intelligent fertilizers; Communicate with state-owned enterprises to build demonstration parks; In cooperation with the local government to carry out popular science exhibitions, I saw different levels of society and different operating mechanisms, and exercised the ability of communication, coordination and organization, and only in the small courtyard did I have such an opportunity. ”
The research group discussed the application of new agricultural technologies and the development of agriculture and rural areas in the greenhouse of the "Ten Qintian" agricultural companies
"You are spreading science and technology to solve people's livelihood; We (ten diligent days) are spreading agriculture, and we hope that in the future, we can work with the students of the Science and Technology Academy to make agriculture bigger and stronger, and the science and technology courtyard model can blossom in various places and benefit more new farmers. In the program, the science and technology gang composed of teachers and students of China Agricultural University also went to Hangzhou to visit the "Ten Qintian", and presented intelligent planting and breeding equipment such as multispectral imaging canopy rapid diagnosis system, water quality monitor and ecological green manure, and the tools and methods they "taught" were recognized by the "Ten Qintian".
Leaving the technology in the field and bringing wealth to the village farmers, the "small courtyard youth" lived up to expectations. They went into the depths of rural China, felt the temperature of the land, experienced the sweetness and bitterness of growth, harvested sweet fruits, and used their personal experience to understand what it is to seek truth from facts and how to connect with the masses.
"Learn to learn, learn to do things, learn to cooperate, learn to survive and develop." The students of the Science and Technology Academy showed the new face of contemporary Chinese youth. Recently, Pinduoduo has also joined hands with the team of academician Zhang Fusuo of China Agricultural University to launch the "Action Plan for Strengthening Agriculture and Rejuvenating Agriculture Talent in Science and Technology Academy" to jointly explore the "learning-research-business" public welfare talent training model.
"Cultivating the love of agriculture and practicing the ability to rejuvenate agriculture", the science and technology courtyard is becoming an aggregate for the development of modern agriculture and the service of rural revitalization. Solving people's livelihood, governing culture, and cultivating talents, science and technology academies are in the ascendant. It has witnessed the youth that has never been wasted, it has promoted the high-quality development of agriculture, and it looks forward to the convergence of more forces to promote the construction of Chinese-style modern agriculture.
Source: CCTV