Representative of the National People's Congress Cheng Ping: Adhering to the early years of agriculture

Cheng Ping, an expert in China Food Think Tank and President of Zhongkai School of Agricultural Engineering, has made great achievements in the agricultural biological field. For more than 30 years, from the university teacher to the scientific research institute, to the leadership position of the Agricultural Department of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture, and returned to the university as the principal; Organization chairman; elected members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and representatives of the National People's Congress ... The years are changing and the original intention is like a Pan. Although Cheng Ping's job and identity continue to change, her love and dedication to the cause of the "agriculture and rural areas" have never stopped.

Life with "farm" association

Cheng Ping has been engaged in agricultural scientific research, management, and teaching for decades. He has been deeply cultivated in the familiar agricultural field, and has special and deep feelings for "agriculture, rural areas, and rural areas."

Cheng Ping is the first college student in my country to restore the college entrance examination. After receiving a doctorate in 1998, as a person who returned to China as a study abroad, she was introduced to work at the Zhuhai Agricultural Science Research Center in Guangdong; in 2008, she went to the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agricultural Agricultural Department after public push for public election; in 2018, she was agricultural in Guangdong Province. After 10 years of work, Cheng Ping went to the School of Agricultural Engineering, Zhongkai Agricultural Engineering.

"I have witnessed the development of China's reform and opening up and the modernization of agriculture in China. I have felt deeply. For decades, China's agricultural and rural areas have undergone profound changes." At the Zhuhai Agricultural Science Research Center, Cheng Ping led the team from sightseeing agriculture. Demonstration agriculture is done step by step, and the laboratory has from scratch. The Zhuhai Agricultural Science Research Center is to welcome Macau to return to the motherland to carry out research on the research and success of the lotus reverse season cultivation. On December 20, 1999, the Zhuhai Agricultural Science Research Center sent 500 pots of lotus to the return of Macau's return, becoming the first choice protagonist of the Showahua, and was commended by the Central and Macau Special Administrative Region Government.

Under the leadership of Cheng Ping, the Agricultural Science Center has become a national 4A -level tourist attraction, becoming the earliest comprehensive technology demonstration base integrating scientific research, demonstration, promotion, sightseeing, and leisure. Scientific research innovation has made a prefecture -level agricultural center a banner of agricultural science and technology nationwide.

Cheng Ping said with emotion that only when he struggled unremittingly could he create every opportunity of this era. In 2001, Cheng Ping won the title of "The Star of Top Ten Outstanding Study Abroad in Guangdong Province"; in 2003, he was elected as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and won the title of "Star of the National Studies for Back to China"; director.

Pay attention to the development of the seed industry

Seeds are agricultural chips and core competitiveness. As an agricultural expert, the development of the seed industry is a topic for Cheng Ping for many years. "China has 1.4 billion people. Over the years, from the national level to grasping grain safety at the grassroots level, rice, wheat, and rapeseed agricultural products are firmly held in the hands of Chinese people. In terms of animal husbandry breeding, Guangdong yellow chicken is China’ s own own own’s own own’s own. Variety, but Bai Yuji is introduced from abroad, and large -scale farming is basically dependent on foreign species. "Cheng Ping said," It has been working for so long at the agricultural front, whether at the grassroots level or to the Guangdong Agricultural Department of the Guangdong Provincial Agricultural Department, see a lot of fruits, a lot of fruits, Vegetable seeds, especially animal husbandry farming, are many foreign varieties, which is more intense. "

Cheng Ping has been calling for the national CPPCC members since 2007 that the country must pay attention to the problem of the seed industry. Since then, she will submit a proposal about the breeding industry every year. These proposals have been highly valued by the relevant ministries and commissions at that time.

After densely visited and investigated, in response to the issue of restricting the development of the seed industry in my country, Cheng Ping proposed suggestions for building the industrialization base of China's species of Silicon Valley, the establishment of an industrialization base for the seed industry, the level of scientific and technological innovation of the seed industry, and the improvement of the construction of seeds and regulations. She has submitted a proposal for many years to call for the improvement of molecular breeding into a national strategy and accelerate the construction of the scientific and technological innovation capabilities of the seed industry, so as to cope with the impact of the foreign breeding industry and ensure the safety of my country's food.

"In 2008, I was in charge of agricultural technology in the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture. The top priority of agriculture, we proposed the idea of ​​building Guangdong as the national species industry. "Cheng Ping said," The top ten breeding companies in the world, such as Monsanto, DuPont, Pioneer, and European breeding industry. The company, the volume of their breeding companies is even equivalent to the total of my country's breeding companies. At that time, the volume of the breeding industry at that time was very small.

"In the past, most of the domestic breeding was mainly based on traditional breeding methods, and there were many uncertainty. Scientists obtained offspring through a large number of uncontrolled screening, and then screened. A good variety requires a huge workload, and we must have rich experience. And the United States' Mengshan capital, DuPont and other companies are completely modern streamlined operations, just like the factory to make chips. Create the Silicon Valley of China's breeding industry, and build our own breeding industry 'aircraft carrier. "Cheng Ping said.

Cheng Ping believes that Guangdong has the advantages and conditions to build Silicon Valley in China. Guangdong is the forefront of reform and opening up, especially in Shenzhen. At that time, it attracted the settlement of Huada Gene, Genesis, Tsinghua Research Institute, Academician Yuan Longping, and a large number of world -cut life sciences, and scientific research institutions related to seed industry.

"There are many universities and scientific research institutions engaged in the seed industry. In addition, the climate of Guangdong is relatively mild, there are a wide range of vegetables and fruits, and the species resources are very rich. Area. Guangdong not only has very good natural conditions, but also fertile soils that have both high -tech and economic strength and promoting the transformation of results. He was the deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture, in charge of agricultural technology, and led his colleagues to write this content into the 2012 Guangdong Provincial Document No. 1. "Cheng Ping said. Crack the "card neck" problem

In order to help the country solve the problem of the "card neck" of the seed industry, after 2012, Cheng Ping led scientific researchers to plan to plan the Guangdong Seed Industry Innovation Center. They did a lot of in -depth investigations, held many meetings, and visited many scientific research institutions. In 2016, the former Ministry of Agriculture was preparing to start the National Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Center. After hearing the news, Cheng Ping and colleagues intend to build this science and technology center with the seed industry as the core and name it "Guangdong Seed Industry Science and Technology Innovation Center" " Essence

At that time, the CPPCC investigation team where Cheng Ping was located found that the collection and preservation, development and utilization of germplasm and quality resources in Guangdong Province is urgent to strengthen. The quality and low levels are severe, and the breeding methods are still mainly based on traditional breeding. In addition, the resource evaluation and genetic mining are insufficient, the degree of digitalization of the germplasm resources is low, and the resource advantages have not yet transformed into breeding advantages.

For this reason, Cheng Ping suggested to promote the agglomeration and opening up of scientific research institutes, colleges, enterprises, and individuals, and jointly established a new type of research and development institution for breeding industry. At the same time, the digital platform, molecular breeding platform, and molecular appraisal platform of agricultural germplasm resources are established. Under multiple appeals, the proposal was highly valued by the Guangdong Provincial Government.

"At that time, the idea was to create a public R & D platform, which truly formed a 'aircraft carrier', bringing together the variety of scientific research institutes, universities, and enterprises." Cheng Ping recalled that because of the breeding industry resources, each of them was in politics. Each breeder may have hundreds of or thousands of species resources in their hands, scattered in different units, different institutions, different teams, and even treat seeds as personal private property. Disaster.

"At that time, we held about dozens of experts at the Central Science and Technology Innovation Center, and went deep into the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Wen's, and Haida. Institutions, non -profit scientific research institutions with no fixed personnel, and no fixed funds. "Cheng Ping said," The infrastructure of this non -profit scientific research institution, the early investment of the government is invested by the government, and the science and technology alliance is formed. Institute of Science and Technology, Zhongkai Agricultural Engineering, Washinga Gene, Wen's, and Hai Dada and other Guangdong heavyweight industry innovation scientific research institutions, universities, and leading enterprises set up a board of directors, and at the same time set up the institute. It can be used by really allowing scientists to bring. Do the basic work in the early stage and remove bad genes.

Cheng Ping said to reporters in depth the innovation mechanism of the platform: "These early genetic research work requires national support, just like the current industrial chip development, it is difficult for a mechanism to complete. To make it, it is difficult to complete an independent university, and a public R & D platform is needed. So we want to build such a platform to clear the source of each resource. When commercial development is required in the later period, we can trace the source and know Who is provided by it, and then determine the contribution rate of different resources and different scientists in the resources in the distribution of interests to ensure that it can get the due return in the final commercial conversion. This can greatly mobilize the majority of scientific and technological personnel Putty, let them not provide the varieties without getting anything, to dispel the concerns of scientists. This is a particularly good idea. We submitted the plan to the former Ministry of Agriculture and received approval in June 2018. "

In August 2018, Cheng Ping went to Zhongkai School of Agricultural Engineering as the principal. Speaking of the concept of that year, Cheng Ping is still full of passion. She said that to solve the problem of the "card neck" of the seed industry, we must raise the power of the country. Make full use of the advantages of Guangdong's reform and opening up to create a Silicon Valley of China's species industry. This Silicon Valley can also build one in the north. Guangdong is mainly facing agricultural products and crops in South China. Cheng Ping hopes that with the strong support of the country, it can truly form an innovation base that can compete with large foreign companies. "Through this R & D platform, we can figure out the quality resources, especially the matching of the phenotype and the genotype, functional gene mining, and variety of gene identification, etc., can choose many varieties in one year, instead of choosing 1 one in 10 years, 1 year, 1 year only choose 1 one. Variety. American companies have selected many varieties in 1 year, and they are precise breeding. Our original traditional breeding takes a lot of effort, a long time, and many blindness. I hope the country will continue to support the construction of the seed industry research and development platform. "Cheng Ping Frankly.

"Although it is a public welfare R & D platform, the institutional mechanism can be flexible, the employment system can be adopted, and the scientists who have regulated professional talents from various scientific research institutions to attract the world's scientists."I have never given up, I hope to do something that I can do for the seed industry in China. I also hope to continue to join forces with Huazhong University of Agricultural University of China, the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Huada Agricultural.R & D platform. "Cheng Ping looks forward to continuing to complete the career that has not been completed in the Agricultural and Rural Department of Guangdong Province at Zhongkai Agricultural Engineering.Reporter Jiang Mei)

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