With less than 9% of the world's arable land,
Feed nearly 20% of the world's population.
70 years,
We've been dealing with this inequality.
Find a more perfect answer.
Grain by grain,
Nourished by the sun,
It also contains the simple ideal of a country:
Eat well.
Chinese grain, Chinese seeds,
Decided the rice bowl of the Chinese,
It must be in your own hands.
They are always waiting to be woken up,
Grow into a "giant" in the field!
Beijing
The National Crop Germplasm Bank, the quiet courtyard holds hundreds of thousands of priceless treasures.
Over the past 30 years, 435,000 seeds have been established in the National Germplasm Bank, the second largest number in the world.
Every agricultural powerhouse, only with a strong germplasm bank, can gain a foothold in the world.
But storing these seeds is not easy. The germplasm bank is a giant refrigerator that is always maintained at minus 18 degrees Celsius. When the engineer worked inside for two hours, his hands and feet were completely numb.
At low temperatures, the metabolism of seeds becomes slow and can be stored for more than 50 years. Seeds can be awakened and activated at any time as needed.
The rice seed that exists here is a giant of rice once it is sown into the field.
Lu Xinxiong, director of the National Crop Germplasm Bank, said: "If 30 years ago, if the millet was not collected and preserved in this place, it would have become extinct, that is to say, we would not have been able to eat the rice of The Rice, and there would have been no story of the people in the Yunnan Shade Area getting rid of poverty and getting rich." ”
The story of Lu Xinxiong's poverty alleviation and prosperity takes place in Mangshi, Yunnan.
Giant rice can grow up to 2.8 meters. You don't have to bend down, you can harvest by standing.
In the 1960s and 1970s, with the large-scale promotion of high-yielding dwarf rice, fewer and fewer people planted millet, almost extinct.
Eleven years ago, local people recovered seeds from the National Crop Germplasm Bank and resumed the cultivation of milli-rice in southwest China.
The unit price of rice with good taste has exceeded 1,000 yuan per kilogram.
It is that small handful of seeds that have put the people here on the road to get rid of poverty and become rich.
A small seed, a country's key strategic resource.
Liu Xu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that crop germplasm resources play a great role in genetic breeding. We, the agricultural scientists in China, have bred many new varieties, all of which are cultivated using crop germplasm resources. After these new varieties were bred, farmers planted new varieties, increasing the original yield by 4 to 5 times, or even 8 to 9 times.
In the National South Breeding Scientific Research and Breeding Base on Hainan Island, millions of seeds are experimented and bred here.
The temperature of not less than 20 degrees Celsius throughout the year has opened an acceleration button for the experiments of Chinese breeders, making the cycle of Chinese seed breeding shorter and the efficiency of renewal higher.
Here, Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", has cultivated hybrid rice that has attracted worldwide attention; Li Denghai, the "father of corn", has developed high-yield and high-quality corn; and Guo Sandui, the "father of insect-resistant cotton", has successfully developed bivalent insect-resistant cotton.
More than 70% of the new varieties of crops bred in New China have been cultivated here.
At the housewarming feast, a meal of potatoes and a glass of white water is more delicious than wine!
Dingxi, Gansu
The extremely arid Dingxi, once recognized by UNESCO as "one of the uninhabitable areas", was once one of the poorest areas in the country, with annual evaporation at least three times that of precipitation. Most of the places were once barren mountains and bald mountains, and there was no grass.
In the 70 years since the founding of New China, this place has always been the concern of the country.
In 1958, the introduction project began.
At the end of 2014, the cross-century dream project was completed, and the Tao River flowed into thousands of households in Dingxi, and the expectations of the people finally came true.
Moving from a water-scarce mountain to the bottom of the mountain is the dream of three generations of si Qizhong, a villager in Yangzhuang Village, Dingxi, Gansu Province.
After the family was moved, the mirror was hung, and Si Qizhong decided to celebrate the housewarming with a potato feast.
At a simple feast, a glass of white water tasted better than wine for him.
In Dingxi, where there are nine droughts in ten years, only potatoes are the most likely to survive and have always been an indispensable food on the high slopes of the loess soil.
The continuous injection of scientific and technological power has made the farmers facing the loess for generations to see new hope.
23 years ago, Dingxi implemented the "potato project", which made the locals firmly believe that potatoes can not only fill their stomachs, but also become the "golden eggs" of getting rich.
Today, Gansu Dingxi potato has jumped from 1500 jin per mu to nearly 10,000 jin, and the output has increased by nearly 5 times, becoming the largest seed potato production base in the country.
On the Loess Plateau, green dreams bloom, and these stories written on the earth point to the future.
"The wheat waves are rolling, the machine is rumbling"
This great change in field cultivation
It is a profound change in agricultural science and technology in the past 70 years!
When new China was founded, China's agricultural mechanization started from scratch, but today, China has become the world's largest manufacturer and user of agricultural machinery.
Inner Mongolia
Bayannaoer Jiuqu Yellow River Fuhe Loop. The Yellow River made a beautiful bend in the Hetao Plain and nourished this land. Since ancient times, it has been the agricultural production base in northwest China.
When the wheat harvest season arrives, the agricultural machinery teams from Henan, Hebei and Gansu continue to assemble from all directions.
Every year, more than 300,000 harvesters across the country participate in cross-regional operations, and this large-scale spontaneous action that lasted for 23 years is the great creation of Chinese farmers themselves in production practice.
The wheat waves rolled and the machine rumbled.
A combine harvester can harvest at least 100 acres a day, and Bayannur's 1.5 million acres of wheat can be harvested in 10 days.
Today, China's wheat production has basically achieved full mechanization, and the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation in the country has exceeded 69%.
"Digging without a shovel, cutting wheat without bending down", the dream that was once a reality has become a reality.
From unmanned deep pine machines to unmanned film layers, from aircraft that can count the number of apple blossoms, to Internet of Things technology that covers network signals and monitors fishing rows at any time with mobile phones.
This great change in field farming is a profound change in agricultural science and technology in the past 70 years.
Orange red orange green good season,
It's another harvest festival.
When the golden yellow is painted all over the divine state,
The harvest is firmly in his own hands.
China from the agricultural civilization,
Today, I still work this land.
With sweat, with struggle, with blood.
Because
We love the land the most.
The six-episode documentary "Our Journey" was broadcast on CCTV Financial Channel from October 2 to October 7 Tonight at 21:18, the first episode of "My Land and My People" will be broadcast together to watch the great changes in China in the past 70 years!