[Explanation] The Lancang River Basin nourishes large tracts of land in Yunnan, including Dongzhu Village in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Yunnan Province.
In March this year, the second phase of the bamboo industry class of the Chinese Academy of Engineering's expert skills training class undertaken by Southwest Forestry University officially started here.
20 local villagers participated in the training.
[Concurrent] Hui Chaomao, chief professor of the Institute of Bamboo and Rattan Science, Southwest Forestry University
Through our efforts, our technology, and our technology, we should make the bamboo resources scientifically and rationally developed and utilized, so that the people in the bamboo-producing areas can get rich from bamboo.
[Explanation] Hui Chaomao, a professor who participated in this training and lecture, is the chief professor of the Bamboo and Rattan Research Institute of Southwest Forestry University.
He will lead the villagers to build a "Demonstration Park for Rural Revitalization of Sweet Dragon Bamboo Industry in Yunnan Province" here.
[Concurrent] Hui Chaomao, chief professor of the Institute of Bamboo and Rattan Science, Southwest Forestry University
Because its bamboo shoots are of the highest quality in the world, sweet dragon bamboo has great potential in promoting the development of this industry.
[Explanation] Yunnan is known as "the hometown of bamboo in the world", and Hui Chaomao has achieved a lot of research results and published many monographs in the 38 years of dealing with bamboo.
In 2021, he won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award for the "Bamboo Resources Efficient Cultivation of Key Technologies" project.
[Concurrent] Hui Chaomao, chief professor of the Institute of Bamboo and Rattan Science, Southwest Forestry University
From the bottom of my heart, I feel a kind of supreme pride, because it is an affirmation of our long-term hard work, great efforts, and an affirmation of our research results.
[Explanation] Dealing with bamboo is inseparable from the arduous field work.
In 1986, Hui Chaomao, who was a graduate student, was entrusted by his mentor Xue Jiru to go to the Nangunhe National Nature Reserve alone to investigate and collect specimens of rare bamboo species, pear, rattan, bamboo, flower and fruit, and this experience made Hui Chaomao unforgettable for the rest of his life. .
[Concurrent] Hui Chaomao, chief professor of the Institute of Bamboo and Rattan Science, Southwest Forestry University
The place where a small bridge was built with two bamboos, just as we passed, the flood came.
We rushed over in front of us, and the latter ran back, but there was a young man on the bridge behind me and was swept away by the mudslide.
[Explanation] Now, at the age of nearly sixty, Hui Chaomao has turned his energy to the countryside, hoping to convert the research results of these 38 years into the wealth of the villagers.
He practiced a poem he once wrote with practical actions - "Study is not a Confucianism to serve the country, and bamboo is not rich and the people are ashamed to become a career".
[Concurrent] Hui Chaomao, chief professor of the Institute of Bamboo and Rattan Science, Southwest Forestry University
In the end, we want to see the farmers, see the common people grow bamboo shoots, and through the development of this bamboo shoot industry, they increase their income, they have more money, and then they live a prosperous life, and the farmers have smiles on their faces, then Our mood, that can be said to be a realization of the value of life.
Li Sha Gao Xi Yuan Hongkai reports from Lancang, Yunnan
Responsible editor: [Li Ji]