There are many things, agricultural technology, related exhibitions, and gardens. The following is a report:
A very well-behaved girl led the reporters while pressing the remote control in her hand. With a slight press, the water in the water pipe will spray out. Press different buttons, and the water will come out in different shapes, including umbrella-shaped, column-shaped, and dripping down the roots of plants. If all kinds of sprinklers are activated, a wonderful picture will be formed that integrates blue sky, white clouds, green grass and flowers.
This is a scene the reporter saw at the Yangling International Water-Saving Technology Expo Park.
Mr. Chen Fang, senior engineer of the Science and Technology Expo Park, said that in this park, various forms of advanced water-saving technology and equipment at home and abroad have been collected, such as channel water transmission, underground pipe water transmission, wave irrigation, centralized water supply, etc. Rain utilization, agronomic water conservation, automatic control technology, etc. The Expo Park has gathered more than 90% of domestic and more than 60% of foreign water-saving irrigation products. Using automatic control, with one machine in hand, various forms of irrigation can be carried out as needed.
China has a large area of ??land in arid and semi-arid areas. The completion of the Yangling International Water-Saving Technology Expo Park will drive the development of the agricultural economy in these areas and promote the transformation of traditional agriculture into modern agriculture. , it plays an important demonstration role and has a very promising future.
The Rise of a Small Town
Journalists have a habit of bringing a map of China with them every time they go on a business trip to check the places they want to cover. This interview trip to Shaanxi was no exception. On the train to Xi'an, I took out the map and looked up a place called "Yangling". Maybe because the map version is too old, I couldn't find this "Yang Ling". When I arrived in Xi'an, I asked some colleagues from Shaanxi. They only knew the name Yang Ling, but they couldn't tell which city or county it was in. I finally got to Yangling and asked the local people to find out. It turns out that Yangling is a town in Wugong County, Xianyang City. On July 29, 1997, with the approval of the State Council, Wugong was separated from Wugong and established as a national agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone. As an agency dispatched by the Shaanxi Provincial Government, the Demonstration Zone Management Committee enjoys provincial economic management rights, prefecture-level administrative rights and some provincial-level administrative rights. In this way, "Yangling", which not many people knew before, has become famous throughout the country, especially in high-tech industrial zones, in just a few years. In fact, Yangling is a very famous place. Yangling is the birthplace of the Chinese nation’s farming civilization. According to legend, the ancestor of the Zhou clan lived in Tai from Houji to Gongliu, which is roughly equivalent to settling in today's Yangling area. The Zhou people believe that Hou Ji was the first person to start planting millet and wheat. He was good at growing food crops and served as Shun's official, responsible for farming and teaching people how to farm. When you get off the Xi'an-Baoji Expressway and enter the urban area of ??Yangling, you can see a bronze statue of Houji in Jiajiayuan Park to commemorate the ancestor of Chinese farming. In the 1930s, Yu Youren and Yang Hucheng initiated the establishment of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry College here. Therefore, it is logical to establish a national-level agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone here.
Five years is not a long time, but the construction and development of Yangling is rapid. This is China's only national-level agricultural high-tech industrial zone. It has become one of the top ten science and technology industrial parks opened by the Chinese government to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, one of China's six cross-strait cooperation pilot zones, and one of China's "Tenth Five-Year Plan" periods (2001~2005). ) is one of the five high-tech zones that focus on supporting development.
Scientific and technical personnel are cultivating plant seedlings.
Yangling, a small town in the past, is now rising in western China as a modern agricultural science and technology city, ecological city, and industrial city. Meng Jianguo, deputy director of the demonstration zone management committee, said, “The demonstration zone includes Northwest A&F University and Yangling Vocational and Technical College, a number of modern central laboratories, and 5,000 people from 64 disciplines including agriculture, forestry, water, and animal husbandry. Scientific researchers; 80,000 agricultural science and technology talents have gone from here to the whole country.” This agricultural expert believes that Yangling’s research in multiple disciplines and fields is leading the country, and some of it has reached the international advanced level.
The subjects and fields he mentioned include: wheat breeding, dryland water-saving agriculture, plant protection, soil fertilizers, livestock reproductive endocrinology and embryo engineering, comprehensive soil and water loss control on the Loess Plateau, desertification prevention and control, forest cultivation, landscaping, fruit gardening, Wood processing and comprehensive management and utilization, plant resource protection and development and comprehensive utilization, etc. Today, Yangling has become an "agricultural Mecca" worshiped by agricultural scientists and Chinese farmers from some countries and organizations in China and even around the world.
Innovation
After the world's first successful cloning of sheep "Dolly" in 1997, the trend of animal cloning became more and more fierce, and many countries mentioned animal cloning in their own countries. Agenda. Chinese scientists have also achieved breakthrough results in animal cloning. In June 2001, Professor Zhang Yong obtained the world's first batch of adult somatic cell cloned goats, "Yuanyuan" and "Yangyang", which caused a shock.
Professor Zhang Yong has been engaged in theoretical and technical research on mammalian developmental bioengineering for many years, and has presided over 10 important scientific research projects. Previously, in 1990, he used embryonic cell continuous cloning technology to obtain the world's first G1, G2, G3, G4 and G5 generation embryonic cloned Angora goats (***45) and the world's first generation trophoblast cell cloned goats. In 1997, China obtained the first batch of frozen embryo cloned cows.
In October 2000, he established the China Animal Cloning Base in Yangling. In June 2001, he cloned "Yuanyuan" and "Yangyang". In February this year, "Yang Yang" successfully gave birth to a pair of twins named "Kuai Kuai" and "Le Le". Innovation has been established since the establishment of Yangling High-tech Zone. Because the guiding ideology is clear and the measures are effective. There are numerous innovation achievements. In addition to Zhang Yong's research results, there are many more. China has made important breakthroughs in the research on the utilization of wheat hybrid vigor - the research project on male sterility induced by the new male killer SQ-1 in wheat has passed the results appraisal; the research on the supporting technology system for the high-quality and efficient industrialization of Yangling Qinchuan cattle has reached the world's advanced level; Dr. Zhang Lugang presided over A national 863 project during the Tenth Five-Year Plan has made significant progress. After two years of scientific and technological research, the research team successfully selected two excellent new varieties with yellow and orange leaves from more than 100 Chinese cabbage hybrid combinations. strain, the experimental yield per mu reached 6,000 to 7,000 kilograms. This new variety is suitable for cultivation in northern China. Among the six replacement varieties in the northern wheat region of China, four are varieties cultivated by Yangling, which have made significant contributions to the development of China's agriculture.
Innovative achievements in the Yangling Demonstration Zone continue to emerge, providing important technical support for China's agricultural industrialization.
Demonstration
A corner of the fountain demonstration area
Only when any scientific research results go from the laboratory to the society can they serve the public and create economic and social benefits for the society. Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone pays great attention to the demonstration and promotion of scientific and technological achievements. Deputy Director Meng Jianguo provided reporters with a set of figures. Since the establishment of the demonstration zone, 94 agricultural science and technology demonstration bases have been built in different ecological types in the Guanzhong area, northern Shaanxi area, southern Shaanxi area, and other 16 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in Shaanxi Province. 1,285 demonstration sites were established.
Shaanxi is one of the main producing areas of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in China. In the past, due to low technology content, low output, and low quality, it was difficult to form an industrial advantage. Now, under the guidance of scientific and technological personnel from the Yangling Demonstration Zone, the Linte Industry Development Demonstration Base in Pingmu Town, Feng County, Shaanxi Province has adapted measures to local conditions, focusing on the development of ecological and economical forest industries led by Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Through research and promotion of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, pest control, artificial drying, etc. Technology has improved the quality of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, increased production, and enhanced market competitiveness. The base's pepper output value increased from 11.5 million yuan in 1999 to 15 million yuan in 2001, and the per capita net income of farmers also increased from 1,160 yuan to 1,350 yuan.
Northern Shaanxi is one of the areas with the most severe soil erosion in China. The people of Shaanxi have been making unremitting efforts to improve the ecological environment of northern Shaanxi.
In the desertification control of the Mu Us Sandy Land in Yulin, northern Shaanxi, scientific and technological personnel at the ecological agriculture demonstration base focused on establishing an agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry three-dimensional composite structure that effectively converts energy and regenerates resources, with the goal of promoting the reversal of the local harsh ecological environment. After long-term management, the forest and grass area in the sandy area has reached nearly 1 million hectares, and the forest and grass coverage rate has reached 38.9%. The ecological environment has been greatly improved. The successful experience of Mu Us governance has been recognized by the United Nations World Environment Organization.
A leading cadre commented on the Yangling Demonstration Zone this way: Before the construction of the demonstration zone, we took cadres to visit and study in developed coastal areas. Now that Yangling has built its own base, local people can learn without going out. Various agricultural science and technology, and many people from other places also come to Yangling to visit and study. Yangling truly serves as a demonstration area.