【New Journey to a Powerful Nation with Talents】
Starting from Meilan Airport in Haikou City, Hainan Province, all the way to the south, driving about 200 kilometers, you will arrive at Xinglong Town, Wanning City, which is hidden in the coconut grove.
Starting from Xinglong Town, after walking about 3 kilometers along the national road, you can see a compound with verdant trees - Wanning Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden.
Coffee, pepper, vanilla orchid, cocoa, breadfruit, pandan leaves... More than 3,200 unique tropical and subtropical crops grow freely and vigorously in this courtyard.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that we must insist that science and technology are the primary productive forces, talents are the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force. We must implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country with talents, and the strategy of innovation-driven development, and open up new fields and new tracks for development. , and constantly shape the development of new momentum and new advantages.
In this tropical jungle far away from the city, there is a "Science and Technology Team" with dozens of young Ph. The new advantage of kinetic energy will make a real contribution to the needs of people's livelihood.
This compound also has another name - Institute of Spice and Beverage, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (hereinafter referred to as "Fragrance Institute").
"This is a treasure land of agricultural research"
"Is this a research institute in the countryside?" Sitting on the motorcycle, looking at the dense tropical jungles on both sides of the road, Hao Chaoyun, a Ph.D. in ecology from Anhui Normal University, was disappointed.
In the spring of 2010, Hao Chaoyun, who was about to graduate with a Ph.D., came to the Fragrance Drink Shop for the first time.
At that time, the high-speed rail was not available, so I could only take a long-distance bus from Haikou to Xinglong Town, and then take a motorcycle to the Fragrant Drinks.
"It's really getting more and more lost, and it's not even a town." He didn't cheer up until he entered the compound of the Fragrance Drink Institute and saw the rich and colorful tropical crops. "Suddenly felt that I had come to a treasure land."
"I'm afraid there will never be such a good tropical crop base in China. With such rich tropical agricultural germplasm resources, we can make very good technological innovations and realize the transformation of many agricultural scientific research achievements." It has grown into a tropical crop in China. Hao Chaoyun, director of the Science and Technology Department of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, recalled, "I decided at that time that I wanted to work here."
"This is a treasure land of agricultural scientific research." Qin Xiaowei, deputy director of the Fragrance Drink Institute, said with a smile. When everyone came to the Fragrance Drink Institute for the first time, most of them went through similar mental journeys.
"But it is precisely because the Fragrance Institute is located in the tropical jungle, without all the temptations of big cities, we can conduct scientific research here." Qin Xiaowei said that during the working days of the Fragrance Institute, young researchers seem to fly into the forest , I feel that I have found the fertile ground for scientific research of my dreams.
For the first time in the world, the fine genome map of pepper at the chromosome level was drawn, the simplified genome sequencing of cocoa was completed, and cocoa crops were promoted to enter the "People's Republic of China Agricultural Plant New Variety Protection List (Eleventh Batch)", and the selected Reyan No. 1 coffee Hereyan No. 3 coffee became the first batch of leading varieties of hot crops during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs... The innovative achievements of agricultural scientific research have been bred and harvested on this fertile soil one after another.
"In the past ten years, the scientific and technological innovation work of the Institute of Fragrance Drinks has achieved fruitful results." Tang Bing, director of the Institute of Fragrance Drinks, introduced that after years of research and exploration, the Institute of Fragrance Drinks has established a trinity development model of "scientific research, product development, and popular science demonstration" and " With the unit culture of "taking oneself as one's home, uniting and cooperating, working hard, and bravely climbing the peak", it is currently working towards the goal of building a world-class tropical spice beverage technology innovation center, a tropical agricultural scientific and technological achievement transformation base, and a tropical ecological agriculture demonstration base.
"Do cutting-edge scientific research in the jungle"
On sunny days, the vibrant courtyard of the Fragrance Drinking House is always busy. Workers are often busy picking vanilla orchid pods, cocoa and other tropical fruits.
Known as the "king of food spices", vanilla orchid is widely used in the preparation of high-end food and cosmetics. It is the second most expensive spice in the world, second only to saffron.
"40 years ago, the Institute of Fragrance Drinks established the first vanilla orchid research center in my country, and started the research on the basic and applied technology of the entire industrial chain." Zhao Qingyun, director of the vanilla orchid research center of the Fragrance Drink Institute, said that researchers have now calculated the average yield of vanilla in my country. Increased to more than 1.6 times that of the world's main producing countries, and the yield of "vanillin" is twice the highest level reported in the world.
"Vanilla has now become the 'grass for getting rich' for some farmers in Hainan." Zhao Qingyun said, "The Fragrance Drinks Institute is also stepping up the development of vanilla series tea, coffee, facial masks, perfumes and other products."
Everyone knows that cocoa beans are processed to make chocolate.
But what does a cocoa tree look like?
What shape are the leaves?
What color is the fruit?
I'm afraid few people can answer it.
As an exotic crop, cocoa trees were introduced to Wanning Xinglong in 1954.
"When I saw cocoa for the first time, I was attracted by its peculiar appearance." Li Fupeng, director of the Cocoa Research Center of the Fragrance Drink Institute, said that after graduating with a Ph. resource research.
Over the past 10 years, Li Fupeng and his team members have been committed to the collection, preservation, identification, evaluation and innovative utilization of germplasm resources of cocoa and other spice beverage crops. They have successively collected and introduced 278 cocoa resources from more than 10 countries, and bred new varieties of cocoa " Reyin No. 4", and established my country's first cocoa germplasm resource nursery in Hainan, making the total number of cocoa resources preserved in my country exceed 500.
"In 2020, Hainan cocoa beans will enter the international market for the first time." Yan Lin, director of the Tropical Spicy Beverage Germplasm Resources Research Office of the Institute of Fragrance Drinks, introduced that the "Reyin No. 4" cultivated by the research team of the Institute of Fragrance Drinks is the first in my country with knowledge The cocoa variety with proprietary rights, the cocoa beans of this variety have become one of the raw materials of the famous Belgian chocolate brand.
"Although the Fragrance Drink Institute is located in the tropical jungle, it is a scientific research platform connecting the world." Zhang Yanjun, director of the Processing and Engineering Technology Research Office of the Fragrance Drink Institute, who graduated from Nanchang University with a Ph.D., said that after coming to work here in 2012, he worked with Colleagues from Costa Rica, Samoa, Côte d'Ivoire, Brazil, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries have close exchanges and cooperation.
"Whenever we publish papers in international academic journals, foreign scholars will contact us actively to carry out scientific research cooperation." Zhang Yanjun said with emotion, "What a blessing it is to do cutting-edge scientific research in the most primitive jungle thing."
"Let the seeds of technology take root in fertile soil"
After a torrential rain, Wu Gang, director of the Woody Grain Research Center of the Fragrant Drink Institute, came to the planting demonstration site in Nanwai Village, Nanqiao Town, Wanning City to check the growth of breadfruit trees.
Breadfruit tree, also known as bread tree, is a very characteristic tropical woody food crop with excellent grain and fruit.
"In 2007, when I was working at the Fragrance Drinks, there were only two breadfruit trees in the park." Wu Gang recalled, "At that time, I thought, how can breadfruit be brought to the table of Chinese people?"
With such a wish, Wu Gang began several years of research on breadfruit tree breeding technology, and successfully bred more than 5,000 fruit-bearing breadfruit trees in the park.
"The development of the bread and fruit industry can 'store grain in trees', which is an extension and supplement to the national strategy of 'store grain in the ground and store grain in technology'. It is a practical implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's 'establishing a big food concept'." Wu Gang believes that only by solving the "stuck neck" problem of agricultural technology can we serve the main battlefield of modern agriculture in a deeper way.
In recent years, the woody grain research team led by Wu Gang has not only established experimental demonstration bases in Wanning, Qionghai and Ledong, but also tried to plant breadfruit in Sansha City, which is expected to contribute to landscaping and food security on islands and reefs .
"The integration of science and technology and agriculture allows the seeds of science and technology to take root in the fertile soil, so that the most fashionable and creative rural landscape can be depicted." Chu Zhong, the deputy director of the Fragrance Drink Institute, introduced that while aiming at the forefront of international science and technology, the scientific research of the Fragrance Drink Institute Oriented by industrial development and market demand, the team focuses on improving agricultural quality and efficiency and increasing farmers' income. It has always been on the front line of daily production such as sending science and technology to the countryside, serving agriculture, rural areas, and fighting against wind and disasters. It insists on "writing papers on the ground".
In Lihe Village, Dalu Town, Qionghai City, Fu Ruijun, a farmer, has a "rich mentor", that is, Sun Shiwei, director of the Plant Protection Research Office of the Fragrance Drink Institute.
Fu Ruijun planted 16 acres of pepper, and he is most afraid of various diseases and insect pests when the rainy season comes.
By chance, he participated in a training to the countryside for the scientific research staff of the Institute of Fragrance Drinks, which gave him the hope of preventing and controlling pests and diseases.
Under Sun Shiwei's guidance, he interplanted betel nuts and pepper, and the crops grew better every year, and the family's economic income also increased year by year.
Rooted in the front line of agricultural technology research, sweating profusely to guide production, and legs full of mud to teach technology, although it is extremely difficult, the researchers of the Fragrance Drink Institute enjoy it.
"It is the ultimate goal and the greatest joy for agricultural researchers to make obscure agricultural technology knowledge easy to understand, to enable farmers to apply what they have learned, and to increase agricultural production and farmers' income," said Sun Shiwei.
In 2022, the Institute of Fragrance Drinks will be approved as a National Scientist Spiritual Education Base.
"In the new era and new journey, we must further make good use of technology, make full use of technology, and play the strongest voice of rural revitalization." Han Hanbo, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Fragrance Drink Institute, said, "We will continue to speed up the construction of talent teams, strengthen basic agricultural research, and continuously Continuous scientific and technological innovations have injected inexhaustible impetus and provided strong support for rural revitalization and high-quality agricultural development."
(Our reporter Luo Xu, our correspondent Zhu Lin) (Source: Guangming Daily)