What's in Yangling Agricultural Science and Technology City?
A watery girl led the reporters and pressed the remote control in her hand. With a light press, the water in the pipe gushed out. Press different buttons, water will flow out in different shapes, such as umbrella and column, and drop by drop along the roots of plants. If all kinds of nozzles are started, a beautiful picture of blue sky, white clouds and green grass will be formed.
This is what the reporter saw in Yangling International Water-saving Science and Technology Expo Park.
Mr. Chen Fang, a senior engineer of the Science and Technology Expo Park, said that all kinds of advanced water-saving technologies and equipment at home and abroad, such as channel water delivery, underground water delivery, surge irrigation, rainwater harvesting and utilization, agricultural water saving and automatic control technology, were gathered in this park. The Expo Park has concentrated 90% of domestic and over 60% of foreign water-saving irrigation products. With automatic control, a machine can carry out various forms of irrigation as needed.
A considerable part of China is located in arid and semi-arid areas. The completion of Yangling International Water-saving Science and Technology Expo Park will play an important demonstration role in promoting the agricultural economic development in these areas and promoting the transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. The prospects are very promising.
The rise of a small town
Journalists have a habit of taking a map of China with them every time they go on a business trip to check the places to be covered. This interview in Shaanxi is no exception. On the train to Xi, I took out a map and looked up a place called Yangling. Perhaps because the map version is too old, I didn't find this "Yangling". When I arrived in Xi 'an, I asked some colleagues in Shaanxi. They only know the name Yangling, but they can't tell which city or county it is in. I finally got to Yangling and asked the local people to know. It turns out that Yangling is a town in Wugong County, Xianyang City. 1997 on July 29th, with the approval of the State Council, the national agricultural high-tech industrial demonstration zone was established. As an agency of Shaanxi provincial government, the administrative committee of the demonstration zone enjoys provincial economic management, prefecture-level administrative management and some provincial administrative management. In this way, Yangling, which was not known to many people before, became famous in the whole country, especially in high-tech industrial zones, in just a few years. In fact, Yangling is a very famous place. Yangling is the birthplace of farming civilization in China. According to legend, the ancestor of Zhou lived in Thailand from Hou Ji to Gongliu, which is probably equivalent to settling in Yangling today. Zhou people thought that Hou Ji was the first person to grow millet and wheat. Good at growing food crops, he is Shun's millet official, in charge of farming and teaching people to farm. When you get off the Baoan Expressway and enter Yangling City, you can see a bronze statue of Hou Ji in Jiaojiayuan Park to commemorate the ancestor of China's farming. In 1930s, Yu Youren and Yang Hucheng initiated the establishment of Northwest A&F University here. Therefore, it is logical to establish a national agricultural high-tech industrial demonstration zone here.
Five years is not a long time, but the construction and development of Yangling is rapid. The only national agricultural high-tech industrial zone in China has become one of the top ten high-tech industrial zones opened to APEC by the China government, one of the six experimental zones for cross-strait cooperation in China, and one of the five high-tech zones supported by China during the Tenth Five-Year Plan (200 1~2005).
Scientists and technicians are cultivating plant seedlings.
Yangling, a small town in the past, is rising in the west of China with the attitude of modern agricultural science and technology city, eco-city and industrial city. Meng Jianguo, deputy director of the demonstration zone management committee, said, "There are Northwest A&F University and Yangling Vocational and Technical College in the demonstration zone, and a number of modern central laboratories have concentrated 5,000 researchers in 64 disciplines including agriculture, forestry, water and animal husbandry; 80,000 agricultural science and technology talents have gone from here to the whole country. " The agricultural expert believes that Yangling's research in many disciplines and fields is in a leading position in the country, and some have reached the international advanced level. The disciplines and fields he mentioned are: wheat breeding, water-saving agriculture in dry farming, plant protection, soil fertilizer, reproductive endocrine and embryo engineering of livestock, comprehensive control of soil erosion in the Loess Plateau, desertification control, forest cultivation, landscaping, fruit tree gardening, wood processing and comprehensive management and utilization, and protection and development and comprehensive utilization of plant resources. Today, Yangling has become an "agricultural holy land" worshipped by agricultural scientists and technicians in China and even some countries and organizations in the world and farmers in China.
reform
From 65438 to 0997, after Dolly, the world's first sheep, was successfully cloned, the wind of animal cloning became more and more fierce, and many countries put animal cloning on the agenda. Scientists in China have also made a breakthrough in animal cloning. Professor Zhang Yong obtained the first batch of adult somatic cloned goats "Yuanyuan" and "Yang Yang" in June, 20001year, which caused a shock.
Professor Zhang Yong has been engaged in theoretical and technical research on mammalian developmental bioengineering for many years, and presided over 10 important scientific research. Previously, in 1990, the world's first batch of G 1, G2, G3, G4 and G5 cloned angora goats (45 in total) and the world's first batch of cloned goats with trophoblast were obtained. 1997 The first batch of frozen embryo cloned cattle in China was obtained.
In 2000 10, he founded the China Animal Cloning Base in Yangling. In June of 200 1 year, he cloned Yuan Yuan and Yang Yang. In February this year, Yang Yang successfully gave birth to twins, named Kuaikuai and Lele. Yangling High-tech Zone established innovation at the beginning. Because the guiding ideology is clear and the measures are effective. There are countless innovations. In addition to Zhang Yong's research results, there are many, many more. An important breakthrough has been made in the research on the utilization of wheat heterosis in China-a new type of male killer SQ- 1 induced male sterility in wheat has been identified; The research on the supporting technology system of high quality and high efficiency industrialization of Yangling Qinchuan cattle has reached the world advanced level; A national 863 project led by Dr. Zhang Lugang has made great progress. Through two years of scientific and technological research, the research group successfully selected two excellent new lines with yellow and orange bulbs from more than 100 Chinese cabbage hybrid combinations, and the experimental yield per mu reached 6000-7000 kg. This new variety is suitable for planting in northern China. Four of the six wheat varieties in northern China were cultivated by Yangling, which made great contributions to the agricultural development in China.
The innovation achievements in Yangling Demonstration Zone are constantly emerging, which provides important technical support for China's agricultural industrialization.
set a good example
Corner of fountain demonstration area
Only when any scientific research achievement goes from laboratory to society can it serve the public and create economic and social benefits for society. Yangling District attaches great importance to the demonstration and popularization of scientific and technological achievements. Meng Jianguo, deputy director, provided the reporter with a set of figures. Since the establishment of the demonstration zone, 94 agricultural science and technology demonstration bases have been built in Guanzhong area, northern Shaanxi area and southern Shaanxi area 16 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities with different ecological types, and enterprises from 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have established 1285 demonstration sites.
Shaanxi is one of the main producing areas of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in China. In the past, due to low technical content, low output and low quality, it was difficult to form industrial advantages. Nowadays, the demonstration base of lint industry development in Pingmu Town, Fengxian County, Shaanxi Province, under the guidance of scientific and technical personnel in Yangling Demonstration Zone, focuses on the development of eco-economic lint industry led by pepper according to local conditions. Through the research and popularization of pepper pest control, artificial drying and other technologies, the quality of pepper was improved, the yield was increased and the market competitiveness was enhanced. The output value of Zanthoxylum bungeanum increased from11500,000 yuan in 1999 to1500,000 yuan in 2006, and the per capita net income of farmers also increased from 1 160 yuan to 1350 yuan.
Northern Shaanxi is one of the areas with the most serious soil erosion in China. Shaanxi people have been making unremitting efforts to improve the ecological environment in northern Shaanxi. In the desertification control of Mu Us sandy land in Yulin, northern Shaanxi, the scientific and technical personnel of the eco-agricultural demonstration base closely focus on establishing an effective three-way composite structure of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry for energy conversion and resource regeneration, with the goal of promoting the reversal of the local harsh ecological environment. After long-term management, the area of forest and grass in the sandy area has reached nearly 6.5438+0 million hectares, the coverage rate of forest and grass has reached 38.9%, and the ecological environment has been greatly improved. The successful experience of Mu Us governance has been affirmed by the United Nations World Environment Organization.
A leading cadre commented on Yangling Demonstration Zone: Before the construction of the demonstration zone, we took cadres to visit and study in developed coastal areas. Now Yangling has built its own base, local people can learn all kinds of agricultural science and technology without going out, and many people from other places also come to Yangling to visit and study. Yangling really played the role of a demonstration area.