China News Service, Xing'an League, March 7th, title: From Qingsi to Huafa, the power of "her" on the road to grassroots science popularization in Inner Mongolia
Author Zhang Wei Zhou Dandan
Early in the morning, 58-year-old Zhou Bin arrived at the gathering place and prepared to go to Nansansumu, Keyouzhong Banner, with his colleagues to carry out science popularization activities.
Entering the plowing preparation season, Zhou Bin became busy.
"Seeing that fellow villagers have gained tangible benefits from the promotion and popularization of science and technology, I feel that doing this job is very meaningful." Zhou Bin, who has not faded from retirement, still has a happy face when talking about the sense of accomplishment brought by science popularization.
Keyou Middle Banner is located at the southern foot of the Daxingan Mountains and the northern end of the Horqin Sandy Land. It governs 12 sumu (towns) and was once included in the national poverty flag.
The local people have suffered from years of sandstorms and no harvests. The people have relied on "God" and brute force for a long time. The asymmetric knowledge structure and blind spots in technology have made them take too many detours on the road to wealth.
Data map: Thanks to popular science promotion, Keyou Zhongqi beef cattle are fat and strong.
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Keyou Middle Banner
“I just thought that through the power of science popularization, the fellow villagers could increase their income and get rich at the same time as improving the quality of the people.” Zhou Bin, who graduated in 1986, returned to his hometown and was assigned to work in the Science and Technology Bureau of Keyou Middle Banner.
Since then, she has embarked on a 38-year journey of popularizing science.
Over the years, Zhou Bin's footprints have spread all over 12 sumu (towns) and 173 gacha in Keyouzhong Banner.
Keyou Middle Banner is located in the best breeding and fattening zone and is rich in forage straw resources.
For a long time in the past, farmers and herdsmen often burned straw, which not only destroyed the soil structure and caused the quality of farmland to decline, but also easily caused fires.
Faced with this situation, groups of agricultural technology experts began to visit villages and households to conduct science popularization. However, language differences due to geography were unavoidable, so Zhou Bin became a temporary translator.
"Straw can be turned into feed and fertilizer, and there are specialized companies that come to collect it. Straw burning has been written into the law..." In the popularization of science accompanied by experts, Zhou Bin gradually became a "soil expert" in straw transformation, and continued to It is a dividend for fellow villagers to popularize the science of straw transformation.
As of 2022, the comprehensive straw utilization rate in Keyouzhong Banner has reached 89.8%.
The picture shows Zhou Bin and his children experiencing the charm of science together.
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Keyou Middle Banner
In 2022, Zhou Bin retired.
But she still insists on being on the front line of science popularization, going to the grassroots, entering campuses, and going to companies...
She still remembered that last year, experts from China Agricultural University and Inner Mongolia Agricultural University came to Keyou Middle Banner to conduct training on key technologies and models for precise and healthy breeding of cattle and sheep, bringing a "feast of breeding technology" to the farmers present. ".
Tong Qinglin, a large farmer in Yihetala Gacha, Bayanhushu Town, benefited a lot from participating in the training, but he also had a new question: How to prevent limb and foot diseases when cattle are lying down?
Zhou Bin has become a "know-it-all" among the local population due to his long-term involvement in science popularization at the grassroots level, so Tong Qinglin approached Zhou Bin for help.
With Zhou Bin's coordination and help, experts solved Tong Qinglin's questions.
"I'm never afraid of trouble. As long as my fellow villagers' fields are fertile and their cattle and sheep are strong, I'll be very happy."
After the school started in the spring of 2024, Zhou Bin walked into the No. 1 Primary School of Keyou Middle Banner and experienced the charm of the "The Air Is Crazy" experimental show with the children. Moisturizing things silently planted the seeds of science for the children and promoted the popularization of science. flower.
With the rapid development and iteration of big data technology, it has become a new trend for people to ask the Internet for answers.
"It's very convenient to have this network. If you have any questions, you can just use your mobile phone to search. Even though sometimes all kinds of information have different opinions, and we can't tell which one is true and which one is false." Haoyao Sumu Town Jiang Baocai, a farmer and herdsman from Baolawendu Gacha, said with emotion.
Such questions are common, so the Popular Science China APP came into being.
Due to his frequent visits to the grassroots, Zhou Bin began to radiate and drive the masses to register for the China Popular Science APP, so that people who "want answers from the Internet" can obtain the most reliable resources.
As of early March 2024, Zhou Bin has driven the dissemination of the popular science China APP to more than 600,000 times.
A few days ago, the Science Popularization Department of the China Association for Science and Technology announced the typical representatives of Chinese information workers in 2023, and Zhou Bin was among them. This is the fourth consecutive year that Zhou Bin has received this honor.
Zhou Bin often uses "long-termism" to describe his passion for science popularization.
From offline to online, from Qingsi to Huafa, she uses her steps to get through the "last mile" of science popularization and benefiting the people.
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