China News Service, Sanya, March 17 (Zhang Yue and Wang Xiaobin) The 2024 China Seed (Southern Silicon Valley) Conference opened in Sanya, Hainan on the 17th. More than 2,000 domestic and foreign guests and seed industry experts attended the conference.
Jiang Xiexin, vice president and secretary-general of the China Seed Association, introduced that the China Seed (Southern Silicon Valley) Conference is an industry event with the highest standards, the strongest lineup, the greatest influence, and rich international elements in the Chinese seed industry.
At this four-day conference, led by Li Jiayang, Gai Junyi, Xie Huaan, Wan Jianmin and other academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, nearly 200 guests will focus on the revitalization of the seed industry and the construction of Nanfan Silicon Valley. topic for discussion.
"Currently, the coverage rate of improved crop varieties in China exceeds 96%, the area of independently selected crop varieties accounts for more than 95%, and the contribution of improved varieties to increased grain production reaches 45%." Wu Weihua, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said, The revitalization of China's seed industry has entered a new stage of five-year results. It is a critical time for China's seed industry to implement a number of major projects, form a number of breeding research alliances, break through a number of major new varieties, and create a number of internationally competitive A powerful leader in the seed industry.
China released the "National Southern Silicon Valley Construction Plan (2023-2030)" in January 2024, proposing to build a Hainan Island with Yazhou District, Sanya City as the core, and Sanya, Lingshui and Ledong as the axis. The spatial layout of Nanfan Silicon Valley is "one center, one axis, multiple bases".
Liu Xiaoming, the governor of Hainan Province, said that the output value of the Nanfan seed industry in 2023 will exceed 10 billion yuan, and Hainan will accelerate the construction of the Nanfan Silicon Valley that integrates scientific research, production, sales, and scientific and technological exchanges to serve the country.
"In the past 15 years, seeds have continued to flow around the world, and international seed trade has increased fourfold. China's efforts in optimizing the breeding production and operating environment have greatly promoted the innovative development of the seed industry and the flow of seeds." Michael Keller, Secretary General of the International Seed Federation, said in a video speech that China's seed industry has now brought together top scientific research and corporate forces in the breeding industry, and has increasingly become a center for international seed industry exchanges and transactions. He looks forward to China's further promotion of The production and circulation of high-quality seeds further contribute to world food security.
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