Chapter 31 Chapter Four Spiritual Home

In Sanya, Hainan, in the past, people only knew that the ends of the earth and the corners of the earth were places where officials were demoted, and a group of unsuccessful high-ranking officials and declining prominent families gathered.In fact, in the history of Sanya, there was a "commoner goddess" - Huang Daopo, who was revered as a god by later generations. Huang Daopo was a famous textile master in the Yuan Dynasty of my country.Born in the fifth year of Chunyou in the Southern Song Dynasty (1245), he was born in Wujing Town, Songjiang, Shanghai.That day, with great reverence, I came to Shuinan Village, Yacheng, and visited the Holy Mother of our Sunan people—Huang Daopo in an ancient temple.Huang Daopo in the Yazhou era was a quick-witted, kind-hearted woman. With her ingenuity, her attitude of studying hard and spinning at night, I couldn't help but think of the mother I saw when I was a child—our mother. The clothes I wore when I was a child were all made of cloth woven by my mother on the hand spinning wheel and wood loom.This feeling is very sacred, so Huang Daopo is undoubtedly a holy mother in the hearts of Chinese people, including my descendants.

The Holy Mother of China lived a life of hardships and studied art in Sanya, which we did not know before.But a trip to Sanya, this burning hot land and the land that breeds all creatures and creatures, naturally makes people clear: Sanya not only produced a holy mother like Huang Daopo who "clothed the world" in the farming era, but today, Sanya The hot land still feeds hundreds of millions of Chinese people. This unique hot land in Sanya has cultivated generations of great seeds and great talents. Their spirit is still supporting China's agriculture, and through the effective development of agriculture, supports It is leading the entire modernization process of China today.

On this point, the Chinese must and should be soberly aware that Sanya’s most important contribution to the Chinese nation and China’s modernization is that it has cultivated generations of high-quality agricultural seeds that are related to the stomachs of 1.3 billion people!This is "Southern Fan" and "Nanfan Spirit". "Nanfan" is the abbreviation of China Agricultural Southern Seed Propagation Base.As mentioned earlier, in the past, we may have all heard of Yuan Longping and his hybrid rice technology, and his great contribution to Academician Yuan Longping is well-known, but we don’t know that Yuan Longping’s hybrid rice was originally cultivated in Sanya has achieved success on this land.

In Sanya, we can hear such a sentence: Yuan Longping is the "father of hybrid rice" in China, and Sanya Dadi is the "mother of hybrid rice" in China. Yes, if there is no such hot land as Sanya, maybe China will never be able to leave Yuan Longping! It is said that experts from the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Agricultural Sciences were the first to achieve successful breeding in Sanya. They completed the first hybrid sorghum species here, named "Jinza No. 5".This variety has nearly double the yield per mu of sorghum bred locally in Shanxi, so the Shanxi Agricultural Science Institute has made a name for it.The news spread to other provinces, and agricultural experts from all over the world began to come to Sanya.They take on the same task, that is, to breed here in winter, and the seeds bred will be brought back and promoted on a large scale.In this way, breeding in the same year may be promoted in the local rural areas.In the era of the "Great Leap Forward" and grain as the key link, the way that experts can rapidly increase local agricultural production through breeding in Sanya is such a remarkable and worth promoting event!So Sanya has since become the "Silicon Valley" where Chinese agricultural experts conduct experiments, breed and produce results. At that time, the word "Silicon Valley" did not exist, and some people referred to "Southern Breeding and Cultivation of New Seeds" as "Southern Breeding". This is where "Southern Fan" comes from.It is well known in China's agricultural science and technology circles. However, due to many factors in the past, "Southern Fan" has not spread among the public and society. Most Chinese people don't know what "Southern Fan" is.Even after Yuan Longping bred a famous hybrid rice variety that became famous all over the world, newspapers and media still did little publicity on Sanya, the "Southern Propagation" base.In short, the special contribution and role of Sanya in the history of China's agricultural science development has been artificially submerged...

For decades, Sanya has quietly spread out a broad heart and body like a hotbed for Chinese agricultural science, dedicating its own sweat and milk, sunshine and rain, as well as blood and breath. On the first day of the interview, the person in charge of the "Nanfan" office told me with tears in his eyes: not long ago, they just built a permanent tombstone for a professor named Chen Xueqiu, so that the professor of Jilin Agricultural University will live forever. The ground "sleeps" on the land of Nanfan in Sanya... "Professor Chen is our old friend. He is a returned overseas Chinese who returned from Malaysia in 1952. He has been engaged in agricultural science since he graduated from Jilin University in 1959. In 1970, For the first time, Professor Chen led a team to our Sanya to work on Nanfan. In the past 30 years, except for two years when he was sent to work in Australia by the government, Professor Chen came to us every year and stayed for half a year. He His youngest daughter was born in 1971. She didn’t recognize her father when she was 7 years old, and she didn’t spend the Spring Festival with her father until she was 13. Professor Chen has made outstanding contributions to the scientific research of Nanfan. The Jiza 1 bred by him , No. 2, No. 3, and No. 5 sorghum varieties have been widely promoted across the country and have become the main varieties of sorghum production in Northeast China. The latest variety he bred - Jiza No. 8 sorghum, is specially selected for the saline-alkali areas in western China. Excellent varieties of sorghum bred. In Professor Chen's notebook, the varieties to be studied and selected have been ranked No. 16... He fell ill on the road to breeding in the south, and his deeds were later published by the central leadership comrades through "Internal Reference" After seeing it, it was reported and publicized by the media, and in the year of his death, he was named one of the 'Moving Chinese Figures'."

Professor Chen's deeds moved people to tears.However, I know that people like Professor Chen are just a representative of more than 300,000 "Nanfan people". There is a female agricultural scientist named Wu Mingzhu who is comparable to Yuan Longping in the field of agricultural science and technology.This female scientist is 77 years old this year.But the comrades in Nanfan's office told me: "As long as you come to Sanya for the Spring Festival, the old lady will be here. But Professor Wu almost never accepts interviews. She is a scientist through and through, and her heart is like Bing Xin among your writers..." The words of the comrades in Nanfan's office really whetted my appetite.So I began to pay attention to and collect bits and pieces of clues about this "Bingxin-style female scientist".

Modern high technology brings many benefits.I quickly found the resume of Professor Wu Mingzhu: Wu Mingzhu, an expert in horticulture.He is currently a researcher at the Hami Melon Research Center of Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences.The pioneer of sweet watermelon breeding in Xinjiang.Presided over the selection and breeding of 30 melon and watermelon varieties that have passed the provincial variety approval or identification, creating billions of yuan in economic benefits for the society.He has won 1 provincial special prize for scientific and technological progress, 1 third prize for national scientific and technological progress, and 4 second prizes for provincial and ministerial scientific and technological progress. Elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999, he is now known as the "king of Chinese melons".

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, "Chinese Melon King", ah, these two titles are enough to attract us.It is a shame, however, that such a legendary female scientist could not be found. "Wu Mingzhu? Haha, she is from Xinjiang! I interviewed her, and she is a remarkable female scientist!" One day, Wang Huimin, head of the reporter station of "People's Daily" and a representative of the 17th National Congress of Xinjiang, told me on the phone. So to speak.Next, Wang Huimin told me some touching family stories of Wu Mingzhu: In 1953, Wu Mingzhu graduated from the Department of Horticulture, Southwest Agricultural College, majoring in fruits and vegetables.As the first batch of college students trained by New China, she asked to go to the frontier of the motherland when filling out her graduation application.She signed up for Xinjiang without telling her parents.Later, I heard from my sister-in-law that after she left, my mother lay in bed for 3 days.In the early 1960s, she went back to visit relatives for the first time.When she got home, it was still dark, so she sat on the stairs and waited until dawn before knocking on the door and entering.Dad looked at her who was dark and thin, but didn't recognize her for a while.

However, at the beginning, Wu Mingzhu was a key training object in the organization, and she was selected and sent to the Rural Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1955, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was established and asked for cadres from the central government.After several trials and tribulations, Wu Mingzhu finally came to Xinjiang from Beijing.After arriving in Xinjiang, after a lot of hard work, she got her wish and went to Shanshan County in the Turpan Basin where the conditions are difficult. Fifty-two years have passed, and Wu Mingzhu's achievements in the agricultural front can be said to be written all over the world, especially in Xinjiang, where everyone knows this "melon king".But Wu Mingzhu also has her own inner regrets: "In my life, the person I am most sorry for is my husband."

Wu Mingzhu's husband Yang Qiyou, like Yuan Longping, who later became a breeding expert, was her college classmate.At that time, she was the secretary of the Youth League branch of the graduating class, and Yang Qiyou was the chairman of the department's student union.After graduating from university, Yang Qiyou and Yuan Longping were admitted to Beijing Agricultural University for postgraduate study.In order to support Wu Mingzhu's work, Yang Qiyou gave up the opportunity to stay in school as a teaching assistant after graduating from graduate school, and was transferred to work at the Agricultural Technology Station of Shanshan County, Xinjiang.

For the sake of his wife Wu Mingzhu, Yang Qiyou has been willing to be a paving stone all his life.For decades, no matter how tired Yang Qiyou was during the day, he would extract English and Russian reference materials for Wu Mingzhu whenever he returned home.Sometimes, they would walk dozens of kilometers to pollinate Wu Mingzhu.In life, the care for Wu Mingzhu is even more meticulous.This is a very kind-hearted man.Whoever has difficulty finding him, leaves his job and leaves.After Yang Qiyou suffered from stomach cancer, he went to the "Nanfan" base in Sanya, Hainan again and again.Finally, Wu Mingzhu finally said what had been held back in her heart for a long time: "You worked for me, and you didn't use your expertise all your life, do you regret it?" Yang Qiyou said, "This is our common ideal, and I don't regret it." Wu Mingzhu listened , tears freely... When her husband died, he was only 57 years old!When he left, he had no professional title, no official title; what he had was just dedication... Five days after the death of her husband Yang Qiyou, Wu Mingzhu returned to Sanya Nanfan Base again... Is this the dozens of times you have returned to Sanya?Wu Mingzhu couldn't remember it herself.She only remembers that since she came to Sanya for the first time in the early 1960s, she has never stopped. Every year when Xinjiang enters winter, she will pat the snowflakes on her body and fly to the "ends of the earth". moon…… Wu Mingzhu has bred countless new varieties of cantaloupe in Sanya, among which "Golden Phoenix" is very popular among local farmers in Sanya. "They are kind and smart, and they learn quickly." Wu Mingzhu's happiest thing in Sanya is that the watermelon and melon varieties she cultivated are always the first to be loved by local farmers and spread quickly. For decades, as a researcher at the Horticultural Institute of Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, she has collected and sorted out local varieties of muskmelon in Xinjiang, saved a number of endangered species resources, and based on the original resources, using ecological differences, has long been in Xinjiang and Hainan. North-south selective breeding.She combined modern breeding technology with conventional breeding technology, created a batch of new seed resources, and bred a batch of new varieties, so that the adaptability, uniformity, disease resistance and transport resistance of the new varieties are better than those of the original varieties. It has been greatly improved, and the first update of Xinjiang watermelon and muskmelon varieties has been realized.Wu Mingzhu took the lead in China by combining conventional breeding such as far-ecological, far-regional, polyparental hybridization, and backcrossing with modern transgenic breeding, aerospace breeding, and radiation breeding to build my country's leading watermelon and melon breeding technology platform.On the basis of earnestly studying the genetic rules of parthenosexual flowers in melon, she was the first in the world to breed a high-quality crisp-flesh inbred line with a 100% parthenosexual flower rate, and established a crisp-flesh soilless cultivation system; The climate special product - Hami melon has successfully moved southward and eastward, and the planting area has expanded to Hainan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other provinces and autonomous regions, enabling the cultivation of Hami melon to go out of Xinjiang and serve the whole country. Today we can eat fresh and sweet cantaloupe and watermelon all year round, the main credit should be Wu Mingzhu! In 2004, Wu Mingzhu and Yuan Longping, two "Nanfan" scientists, were awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen" by the Sanya Municipal Government.At the awarding ceremony, Wu Mingzhu said affectionately: "I have a lot of affection for Sanya, and I have a lot of affection for farmers, but I have the most affection for melons, which is better than my affection for my son." During the interview that day, we happened to meet the young "Melon King" Chen Chuanwu who is now famous in Sanya on the way.The "Southern Fan" spirit inherited from this simple Sanya farmer is a wonderful example of countless "Southern Fan" legends. Chen Chuanwu, from Hongli Village, Haitang Bay, Sanya, is small and thin, but he speaks with a high voice. "In 1990, because the land in our village was occupied by the highway, there were even fewer vegetable fields. Without the land, we had to find another way. In 1991, I saw a news on TV called Soilless cultivation is to grow vegetables and melons without occupying land, and can be harvested in a greenhouse. I was very happy to see it, so I went to the South China Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences alone to find experts in soilless cultivation to learn techniques. How are the professors? Yes, I heard that I am a farmer and want to practice soilless cultivation by myself, so I sold the nutrient solution prepared by them to me. Later, I bought some related books to study, and started to study this soilless cultivation by myself. Soil cultivation technology, I gradually grew tomatoes and cucumbers on the soilless cultivation land! It was the first time I saw myself growing melons and fruits in the shed, I was very happy! I let the whole village come to taste My melons and fruits that are fresh but not grown in the ground..." Chen Chuanwu introduced to me energetically, "The fun is yet to come. "One day I saw another news in the newspaper that the soilless cultivation of cantaloupe, and it is from the Zhuhai Institute of Agricultural Sciences, can earn 30,000 yuan per mu of land. I thought, 30,000 yuan per mu, absolutely It is much better than growing tomatoes. So I went to the Zhuhai Institute of Agricultural Sciences to study. The professor was really nice and taught me. When I returned to the village, I started planting, and it also grew, but there was no harvest. Hami melon When it was about to ripen, I got blight and worked hard for a long time. When the harvest came, I was empty-handed. This happened for two consecutive years in 1993 and 1994. I was so anxious that I was at a loss. At this moment, I I saw the news in the newspaper that Professor Wu Mingzhu had successfully bred cantaloupe that could overcome blight in our Sanya! I was so happy! I found out about her old man’s breeding base in Nanfan. The first day I went I met Professor Wu, and said to her old man: Professor Wu, you are about the same age as my mother, so I will call you Mama Wu! Can I work for you? The kind Professor Wu narrowed his eyes and said that you Let's start with the seedlings first. In this way, I followed Professor Wu to learn the technology of soilless cultivation of Hami melon... "But she is a great scientist after all. She has her scientific norms and requirements. I can't rely on her, can I? So, I moved out quietly and left Professor Wu. It is opposite Professor Wu's experiment site, rented I bought a house, which is the Nanfan house of Shanghai Institute of Agricultural Sciences. The upstairs is my melon field, and the downstairs is my residence. That kind of melon place is just right to see Professor Wu’s experimental field. Since then At the beginning, every day I 'detected' when Professor Wu started to work in the breeding room, what to do, how to do it... all in my heart, and followed suit in my own test shed. Later, my melons grew very well It’s long and big, but it’s neither ripe nor sweet! This makes me anxious again. I’ve obviously made it like Professor Wu, so how can it grow differently? I can’t help it, I bite the bullet Go to Professor Wu. She is a good person. Looking at the melons I planted, the old man said to me kindly: You are too partial to it, and you give too much fertilizer. When I heard it, I realized it and improved the fertilization method the next year. , As a result, the cantaloupe grew big and sweet after eight months. I let the experts from the Shanghai Institute of Agricultural Sciences eat it, and they praised me happily. My soilless cultivation technique of cantaloupe has passed! This incident made me go crazy with joy Yes, because in Sanya at that time, besides Professor Wu Mingzhu, I might be the second person who can grow cantaloupe without soil! Do you think I am not crazy?" At this time, Chen Chuanwu made us look a little different! "In 1996, I was introduced by an acquaintance, and I rented a melon field in Hongli Village, Haitang Bay, Sanya, and started my 'sweet career'..." Chen Chuanwu's later story in Haitang Bay is very legendary and romantic. In the first year, about 4,000 catties of cantaloupe were cultivated in his own production greenhouse. This was Chen Chuanwu's first bumper harvest.Feeling uneasy, he first took a rickshaw to a tourist attraction to try to sell it.If retail sales are not good, they can only be handed over to licensed fruit vendors. "Such a good cantaloupe! Where did you get it?" The well-informed peddler saw such a fresh green and golden-yellow cantaloupe for the first time, and asked him: "Is it from Xinjiang? But you This product doesn't look like a product from Xinjiang!" Chen Chuanwu said, "I planted this myself!" "You planted it? Hahaha, don't brag! How can we grow cantaloupe in Sanya!" The peddler didn't believe it. "Believe it or not. Do you want it or not? If so, I will pull you some cars tomorrow!" Chen Chuanwu thought to himself, believe it or not, as long as you want to eat, I have something for you. The peddler said dubiously: "Okay, how much will you give me per catty?" Chen Chuanwu thought about it for a long time, but he didn't know how much it would cost per catty. He thought it should be more expensive than bananas!So he said: "Six yuan! Six yuan a catty!" The peddler grabbed Chen Chuanwu's hand and said excitedly, "I want all your goods!" "The first business was so easy to sell, and the price was beyond my imagination." Chen Chuanwu said to me cheerfully, "You don't know, I regretted it after I sold it to that guy. I found that the peddler waited for me for a while." Turn around and sell it to someone for 16 yuan a catty! It’s almost three times what I sold him!” Chen Chuanwu laughed again, "However, I didn't feel at a loss. Instead, I ran back to Haitang Bay with joy. I knew I was going to get rich!" Chen Chuanwu really got rich later.The more he grows cantaloupe, the higher his technique is, and the larger the planting area is, the second time he expanded it to a 3-acre soilless cultivation greenhouse.Since then, the "Golden Phoenix" planted by Sanya people has officially appeared in the market in Sanya. Since then, the beautiful Sanya has more melon and fruit fragrance. This fragrance has intoxicated countless Chinese and foreign tourists... The legend and mutual destiny of "Nanfan" and Sanya is as legendary and close as that between Professor Wu Mingzhu and farmer Chen Chuanwu, who have been singing touching and commendable songs of harvest and sweetness for decades. I don’t know if readers have heard of a middle-aged agronomist named Zhao Guozhong. I know that he is also an outstanding person in Sanya’s "Southern Fan". The seeds he has bred have reached a profit of 4.45 billion yuan.This agronomist named Zhao Guozhong changed his own personal world and the world we live in by relying on a single seed. Zhao Guozhong, born in 1950, was recommended in 1971 to study at the then Shijiazhuang Agricultural School.After graduation, Zhao Guozhong was assigned to the Agricultural Science Institute of Shijiazhuang District.Since then, he has had an indissoluble bond with cotton. In 1977, he planted 160,000 cotton plants in a 40-acre experimental field, and successfully selected the cotton variety code-named "1724".However, the selection of an excellent line does not mean that there will be an excellent species, and a lot of tedious and meticulous work such as testing and finalizing it is required.However, Hebei can only grow one season of cotton each year, and the only option to speed up breeding is to carry out additional breeding.He set his sights on Sanya City on Hainan Island, which is 2,370 kilometers away. Since then, the hot land of Sanya has allowed the talent of this agronomist to sublimate and shine with strange light in the remote corners of the motherland. In October 1977, Zhao Guozhong and his colleagues traveled thousands of miles to Nanbin Farm in Sanya to carry out additional breeding of the selected excellent lines.After that, they harvested cotton in September every year and went to Sanya to plant another season without stopping, and brought the seeds back to sow in April of the next year. They harvested cotton twice a year, and worked for four years in two years. Breeding life is hard.Like Yuan Longping, Wu Mingzhu and other "Southern Fans" of the older generation, they rely on self-reliance.They rented a local farmer's thatched hut. Since their residence was far away from the experimental field, they ate cold steamed buns and pickled vegetables in the field at noon. Someone once said: Among scientists, agricultural scientists may be the most "earthy" line of work and the most bitter line.In Sanya, a shoulder pole accompanied Zhao Guozhong for 10 years.He said that carrying fertilizer, cotton, picking seeds, and even his own personal life all depend on this pole.At a time when transportation was not well developed, it was not easy to transport cotton seeds from Sanya to Shijiazhuang.On the way, you have to cross Wuzhi Mountain and cross the Qiongzhou Strait; you have to go through roads, waterways and railways, and you have to take cars, trains and ferries.It will take a week at the fastest to arrive in Shijiazhuang.When the quantity of seeds is small, Zhao Guozhong will carry them by himself, and when the quantity is large, he will hire a car to transport them.He will never forget that life-or-death experience in April 1983.That year, he transported 108 bales of cottonseed back to Shijiazhuang, and sat in the carriage with the cottonseed. At that time, the road over Wuzhi Mountain was rough, with steep slopes and narrow roads, and eight steep turns.There is a steep cliff on one side and a bottomless valley on the other. He dangled in the carriage with the cotton seed, holding a stick against the cotton bale to prevent it from pressing him down. He made several sharp turns Almost got thrown out of the car.Each bag of cotton seeds weighs 30 kilograms. When he arrived at Zhanjiang Railway Station, Zhao Guozhong first unloaded the cotton seeds and weighed them one by one, and then moved them to the platform of the train station one by one.After moving the last bag, he suddenly collapsed on the platform, and the whole world in front of him was spinning. Until then, he hadn't eaten for more than 20 hours.Another time, he fell asleep in the square while waiting for a bus in transit in Guangzhou. A policeman saw that his clothes were dirty and torn, and he was dark and thin. When he took out his work card and NPC representative card, the policeman opened his mouth in surprise for a while, then saluted him solemnly, and apologized to him repeatedly. In fact, the old "Nanfan people" have experienced Zhao Guozhong's experience.The "Nanfan people" in the 1950s and 1960s, when they came to Sanya, even brought their own daily necessities such as oil and salt, and the living and eating conditions were extremely difficult.Many northerners are not used to the hot tropical weather, either they are sick or their stomachs can't bear it.However, no one bid farewell to Sanya because of this. On the contrary, after they came to Sanya once, they rooted their destiny and career here forever. Since Zhao Guozhong set foot on the land of Sanya for the first time in 1977, he has never said goodbye to this hot land.For 30 years, Zhao Guozhong spent almost all of his Spring Festival in the experimental field in Sanya. Every New Year's Eve night, when he dragged his tired body and lay on the bed, listening to the sound of firecrackers in the distance, and thinking about his family thousands of miles away, he would silently sing his most beloved song. His favorite "Go Home and Take a Look", his eyes are full of tears - he will never forget his mother's kind eyes.That year, my mother in her 70s was already in the terminal stage of cancer, and the old man wished that her son could be by her side for a few days.But at that time, it was a critical period for cotton planting, and one day late planting may affect the breeding of a generation of cotton.In the experimental field, Zhao Guozhong prayed silently while sowing cotton: Mother, wait for me for a few more days, and wait for me to take good care of your old man when I come back from work.However, when he went back, his mother had passed away.For more than 30 years, he felt that he owed his wife and daughter more... Ten years of sharpening a sword.The hard work finally paid off, and success finally opened the door to Zhao Guozhong.After 10 years of breeding from south to north, a new high-yield and high-quality cotton variety "Jimian No. 8" came out.It ended the history of "Lu Mian being the head of the family" in the Shijiazhuang area at that time, and broke the record that the yield per unit area in the northern cotton area did not exceed 150 kg. The breeding of "Jimian No. 8" is called by experts as a milestone in the history of cotton planting in northern my country.Then, Zhao Guozhong cooperated with the Institute of Genetics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and adopted the method of distant hybridization to introduce the excellent characteristics of the three cotton species of sea island cotton, Asian cotton and wild Thurber cotton into the upland cotton, so that the upland cotton can produce rich variations, thus producing A large number of different types of excellent seed resources have been cultivated, and the first interspecific triple hybrid new variety "Shiyuan 321" with independent intellectual property rights in my country has been bred... China is one of the five largest cotton-producing countries in the world. In 2005 alone, foreign exchange earned from textile exports exceeded US$100 billion.Since the 1990s, some foreign seed companies have tried every means to enter and monopolize the Chinese market.The competition in the field of cotton has become a fierce international competition. A group of agricultural scientists such as Zhao Guozhong launched a fierce international competition in the field of insect-resistant cotton.With its strong capital, talents and technological advantages, the United States successfully developed transgenic insect-resistant cotton by using plant genetic engineering, and quickly put it into commercial production, occupying the domestic market.A group of scientists including Zhao Guozhong undertook the research project included in the national "863 Program" to develop China's new type of insect-resistant cotton with more stable and long-lasting insect resistance.The hot land of Sanya has become the best base for them to climb the peak of cotton planting in the world.After countless days and nights, the world's first bivalent transgenic insect-resistant cotton - "SGK321" was finally born in 1998.This is an epoch-making achievement in the history of cotton breeding in the world. It broke the dominance of the US Bt cotton in one fell swoop, and made China's transgenic Bt cotton breeding level step up to the world's leading level. Comrades from the National "Southern Fan" Office told me that in Sanya, there are actually many, many scientists like Yuan Longping, Wu Mingzhu, Chen Qiuxue and Zhao Guozhong. life and talent.People like "Corn King" Li Denghai and cotton expert Guo Sandui are all great figures.The breeding results created by them have made great contributions to the food and clothing of 1.3 billion Chinese people.It can be said that without the contribution of the "Nanfan people" in Sanya, China's agricultural modernization would not have achieved what it is today, and the good life of the Chinese people would not be as comfortable as it is today!More importantly, the lofty personality spirit of hard work, self-reliance, perseverance, courage to climb the peak of science, and not gaining fame or profit left by Nanfan people in the fields of Sanya is regarded by today's Sanya people. Shine forever for the most golden and immortal spiritual heritage in this hot land.