China News Service, Xing'an League, September 23rd: "Stable China's Rice Bowl": Inner Mongolia Xing'an League is making Yuan Longping's dream clearly visible

　　China News Service reporter Li Aiping

　　"Although Mr. Yuan can no longer be seen in the rice fields, we will continue to forge ahead along the path of Mr. Yuan's dream."

　　On the 23rd, Wang Shigang said excitedly in an exclusive interview with reporters here, "We are planning step by step in Xing'an League to realize Yuan Lao's third dream."

　　Wang Shigang is the head of the academician Yuan Longping workstation of Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Three days ago, he held a bunch of full rice ears in a live broadcast and confidently said to many netizens that in the future, through the feasible solutions of Xing'an League, Jilin Province will also be able to , Heilongjiang Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region saline-alkali land planted new varieties.

　　According to public reports, the three dreams of Academician Yuan Longping in his life are related to rice.

　　In January 2020, Academician Yuan Longping attended the "Yuan Meng Plan" press conference in Sanya, and proposed his third dream: In the next three years, the Xing'an League in Inner Mongolia will jointly develop 200,000 mu of rice in saline-alkali land, and promote it to 100,000,000 mu nationwide. , to feed an additional 80 million people!

　　The fate of Yuan Longping and Xing'an League began in 2018.

　　On October 16, 2018, the workstation of Academician Yuan Longping of Xing'an League was inaugurated. As one of Yuan Longping's assistants, Wang Shigang officially became the head of the station.

　　In the past four years, the fact that has impressed Wang Shigang the most is that the researchers have truly achieved the miracle of "turning barren land into fertile fields" in Xing'an League.

　　Xing'an League, located in the ecological circle at the southern foot of the Greater Xing'an Mountains at 46 degrees north latitude, is recognized as a golden area for cold rice in the world. However, it was once in a state of idleness and abandonment due to millions of acres of saline-alkali land, which restricted the local poor people from increasing production and income. , an important bottleneck to get rid of poverty and become rich.

　　But this piece of land, under the "leadership" of Academician Yuan Longping, has truly realized the dream of asking for food from saline-alkali land and barren land.

　　Yuan Longping tasted the sea rice from the Xing'an League Academician Yuan Longping's workstation many times before his death, and personally named the rice "Yuanmeng Rice", which means "dream-fulfilling rice".

　　He also wrote several inscriptions for the Xing'an League Yuan Longping Academician Workstation and Xing'an League Rice: "Upstream Northeast, Net Yield Good Rice", "Yuan Meng, Chinese Dream of Rice", "Red City Liang An, Grassland Fragrant Rice" and so on.

　　What makes Wang Shigang fresh in his memory is that on October 21, 2019, Academician Yuan Longping personally attended the 2019 Xing'an League Rice Industry Development Forum. In his speech, he said, "At present, rice production must not only meet the increase in yield, but also meet everyone's expectations for quality. The demand is to let everyone eat well, eat quality, and eat healthily, and the rice in Xinggan League can already be comparable to the world's high-quality rice varieties."

　　On September 27, 2020, Academician Yuan Longping witnessed the 2020 rice yield measurement process in the saline-alkali land of Keyou Middle Banner through a video connection. It can provide reference for the research on the cultivation of saline-alkali-tolerant rice in other provinces and regions. I think the prospect of realizing the goal of planting 100 million mu of saline-alkali-tolerant rice in China is very bright!"

　　In June 2021, Mr. Yuan Dingyang, the son of Academician Yuan Longping, attended the press conference of the second phase of the "Yuan Meng Project", and he will inherit his father's business and gradually realize the dream of Academician Yuan Longping during his lifetime.

　　How does the current Xing'an League realize Yuan Lao's third dream?

　　Wang Shigang told reporters that in terms of conventional japonica rice breeding, the average yield per mu of the demonstration field in the Xibaiyin Base of Xing'an League has reached 715.3 kilograms. Acceptance, creating a new high rice yield in Xing'an League.

　　"In terms of saline-alkali-tolerant rice breeding, according to third-party yield testing, the average yield per mu of saline-alkali-tolerant rice reached 508.8 kg in 2019, 533.95 kg in 2020, and 537.50 kg in 2021, creating a record high for three consecutive years, the same as China's It provides a scientific basis for rice cultivation in saline-alkali land under conditions."

　　The reporter learned from the Xing'an League Administrative Office that in recent years, driven by the brand of Academician Yuan Longping, the high-end brand image of "Xing'an League Rice" has been further effectively established.

　　Since 2019, the purchase price of rice fields in Xing'an League has risen from 1.5 yuan to 2 yuan. The focus of Xing'an League's rice brand work has changed from the past to find a way to not be a "stand-in" for other producing areas, and to prevent rice from other producing areas" Impostor" on the shift.

　　In addition, Xing'an League has not only established three scientific research platforms, the Xing'an League Academician Yuan Longping Workstation, the National Salt-Alkali-tolerant Rice Technology Innovation Center Xing'an League Test Base, and the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center Xing'an League Branch Center, but also undertaken the "Northern Cold Region Rice". Provincial scientific research projects such as key technology research and integrated demonstration of regional salinity-tolerant rice quality and efficiency improvement”, with 1 invention patent, 6 utility model patents, and 19 trademarks such as “Yuanmeng Rice”.

　　Analysts believe that now Xing'an League in Inner Mongolia, "stabilizing China's rice bowl" and fulfilling the entrustment and last wish of Academician Yuan Longping, all this is becoming clear.

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